Galley proof

A printing banner (also just flag or galley proof, proof sheet, galley proof ) referred in particular in the classic lettering set ( hot type ) one produced on loose sheets or strip deduction of a set, but not yet placed on the page format printing unit, the and, inter alia, authors, editors correctors for error checking ( audit) serves.

Unless traditionally still the old terms or shortening the flag to be used, one talks since the introduction of digital printing technology in this context of a flag expression.

Development of the concept of settlement

The term " deduction " is already going back to the practice of hand presses to press a sheet of paper with a brush or a printer bales against the colored set and so deduct a first print image. With the advent of machine printing techniques, a deduction then said generally the result of a printed page.

With today used in general, desktop publishing for creating printed media, we no longer speak of a deduction, but by a " term" means of a printer. It starts with " Rohausdrucken " a Typoskriptes in page height or a " Rohumbruch " without consideration of breaking rules and, for example, an assignment of figures and tables, in which the corrections for the final version can be installed.

Then sample pages of the complete printing unit to print the final layout and made available as loose collection of pages the authors and / or clients for corrections as a correction term or flags printout. Only when this validation process is complete, following the final print approval.

Other uses

Even reviewers is sometimes served on the flags expression of an upcoming book publication as loose or only held together with glue binding leaf collection in a simple A4 format, although here, too, sometimes still pending the final correction by the proofreading and / or the author. Be a request for such flags prints even before the creation of read copies mostly when there is already a high demand for an announced book publication and / or if it is very extensive and reviews should be possible at the same time with the finished book.

Accruals

When checking the print quality in a purely technical sense, one speaks in the mechanical printing process from one proof and analog process with a pressure film or digital methods of a test pressure.