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Electrum Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Signature

a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book--MacMillan

book or newspaper I suppose, but how many numerical pages in one newspaper signature?
  

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I believe all signatures contain 16 pages, but it may depend on the total number of pages required in total. As far as I know, it doesn't matter whether it's a book or a newspaper. org/wiki/Imposition Try Googling things like pages signature book-binding imposition.

— CalifJim

  • I believe all signatures contain 16 pages, but it may depend on the total number of pages required in total.
  • As far as I know, it doesn't matter whether it's a book or a newspaper.
  • org/wiki/Imposition Try Googling things like pages signature book-binding imposition.
  • CJ
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I believe all signatures contain 16 pages, but it may depend on the total number of pages required in total. As far as I know, it doesn't matter whether it's a book or a newspaper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposition

Try Googling things like
pages signature book-binding imposition.
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CalifJimI believe all signatures contain 16 pages
Thank you, CalifJim,
That's what I have been trying. But words like web, signature, impression, press, etc., have no semantic content out of context.

If a broadsheet newspaper signature has 16 pages, it implies a web width of about 48 inches, and I think I have found web widths online up to
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You are asking the wrong person. Since you obviously know more about it than I do, it would be foolish of me to add anything further on the subject, and foolish of you to believe it if I did!
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I don't know more. I've been scrounging around online all day. But thanks anyway.
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