Talk:Galley proof

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Please put the page written for Uncorrected proof as it was..Uncorrected Proof is a technical term and deserves its own page. We just updated its tags. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ElephantEars2008 (talk • contribs)
 * Hi, "ElephantEars2008". Your edits don't appear to an outside observer to show any actual interest in the term itself (which is already covered here anyway), just an obscure book by that title that was published by "Elephant Ears Press," which I am sure is not a coincidence. DreamGuy (talk) 20:10, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Galley proofs are not advance reading copies
Galley Proofs and advanced reading copies are not the same. They are both specific publishing terms which should remain intact because they help chart and define the nature and course of publishing history. With more and more courses in publishing growing up, students should be presented with the differences bewteen terms when they go online to make research. Your logic DreamGuy would see 'Politicians' become 'Politicos' and vice versa. Why not call a great white shark a killer whale, they're both big fish wth large dorsal fins which attack and devour their prey? Wiki should be a resource that expands not diminishes knowledge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.242.117.15 (talk) 11:47, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Político does mean politician, it’s Spanish. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 18:03, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

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Galley Proofs and ARCs are not the same thing. Similar, sometimes one is used for another, but they're not the same and shouldn't be combined under one heading.

I would suggest that there is some confusion over the purpose of a galley proof. The galley proof has one primary purpose, that being to check that the compositor has set the copy accurately and that the physical type is free of defects. (Type metal is comparatively soft so type did get damaged and sometimes individual pieces did get put in the wrong case after use!) Once a defect free galley proof was available, publishing houses could send them to editors and authors for a final reading and corrections to the text before the type was fixed in the chase for printing.

The only part of the final layout of the printed document fixed at the galley stage is the measure - the length of the printed line. This was determined by the setting on the compositors stick and would be difficult to change later without resetting the copy.

A good job description for a compositor can be found at

http://www.careerplanner.com/DOT-Job-Descriptions/COMPOSITOR.cfm.

Unfortunately this is a commercial site so falls outside the Wikipedia criteria for citations.

There is also some very good material on compositing at

http://www.edinburghcityofprint.org/pages/the-printing-process/pre-industrial-printing/letterpress/compositor.php

This site also has other materials that are very pertinent to this page.

Greycynic (talk) 16:45, 31 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I have updated the article and incorporated Greycynic's suggestions regarding defective type. catherine yronwode, not logged in 75.101.104.17 (talk) 08:49, 10 April 2018 (UTC)