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2. Letterpress printing - Wikipedia

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   Today, the juxtaposition of this technique and offbeat humor for greeting cards has been proven by letterpress shops to be marketable to independent boutiques and gift shops. Some of these printmakers are just as likely to use new printing methods as old, for instance by printing using photopolymer plates on restored vintage presses.

3. Greeting card - Wikipedia

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   Depending on the card design, the photo is stuck to the card, clipped to the card or slid into a pocket in the card into which a hole has been cut to act as a frame. The second type is the printed photo card, in which the photo is combined with artwork and printed directly onto the face of the card.

4. Letter (paper size) - Wikipedia

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   The precise origins of the dimensions of US letter-size paper (8.5 × 11 in) are not known. The American Forest & Paper Association says that the standard US dimensions have their origin in the days of manual papermaking, the 11-inch length of the standard paper being about a quarter of "the average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms". [2]

5. Pica (typography) - Wikipedia

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   Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) defined by the World Wide Web Consortium use pc as the abbreviation for pica (1 ⁄ 6 of an inch), and pt for point (1 ⁄ 72 of an inch). [3] The pica is also used in measuring the font capacity and is applied in the process of copyfitting. [4] The font length is measured there by the number of characters per pica ...

6. Photo print sizes - Wikipedia

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   The alternative Super series, denoted SnR, nR Plus or nR+, has an aspect ratio of 3∶2 (or as close as possible) and thus provides a better fit for standard 135 film (35 mm) at sizes of 8 inches or above. 5R is twice the size of a 2R print, 6R twice the size of a 4R print and S8R twice the size of 6R. 4D/6D is a newer size for most consumer ...

7. Typographic unit - Wikipedia

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   The traditional typographic units are based either on non-metric units, or on odd multiples (such as 35 ⁄ 83) of a metric unit.There are no specifically metric units for this particular purpose, although there is a DIN standard sometimes used in German publishing, which measures type sizes in multiples of 0.25 mm, and proponents of the metrication of typography generally recommend the use of ...