Talk:Imprint (trade name)/Archives/2014

Is it really limited to publishing?
As much as this seems to be a bizarre take, and I know that some of you are probably going to scoff at me for asking this but, is it really limited to publishing? Or, can we take a little bit of creative license with the word and include "brand name" type things which are used in many markets by many manufacturers to distinguish between products made by them (for an example you can look at HP and how many of its products are branded as Compaq while others are branded as HP). The difference between the Compaq and HP lines scarily parallels the differences in different imprints of book companies. The real question is, what is the difference between an imprint and a brand name? If an imprint is a brand name, then why isn't this article just a section of that article? --Sire22 02:29, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * this doesnt work —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.114.34.83 (talk) 12:28, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

In current usage, probably not. The American Heritage dictionary (Dictionary.com) gives the fourth definition as "any marketing name used by a company or organization for a product line; brand or label," and the fifth as "the printer's name and address as indicated on any printed matter," which means (at least for AHD, which lists definitions by usage rather than historical order), that the editors or compilers decided that the "marketing name" definition was more current, prevalent, or likely to be intended or understood, etc., than that of the "printer's name... on any printed matter." So for now, according to that source, no, although it does retain a specificity to publishing not retained by any other marketed or manufactured goods. 173.25.13.90 (talk) 06:55, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * [five years later]


 * I don't follow that.
 * Probably this page should be considered, and improved, together with Imprint (disambiguation). Continued below. --P64 (talk) 23:45, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

"Imprint" on international websites
Whether originally a mistranslation or not, the word "Imprint" on German (and other mainland European) websites to mean "Legal notice", "Copyright notice" or whatever equivalent has become standard; I've long since given up insisting that "Imprint" actually means something else - the exact meaning of the word "imprint" is not even that widely known amongst English speakers, and whoever has seen the English translation of an international website more than twice knows that this just means mandatory formal stuff on websites published in certain jurisdictions. DDWP (talk) 23:28, 7 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Do you mean that we need another entry here, for imprint in web publication (weblication) --or, perhaps, for 'imprint' as a technical term that appears in/on/at web-published material?
 * Probably this page should be considered, and improved, together with Imprint (disambiguation). Continued below. --P64 (talk) 23:45, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Imprint, in publishing
Probably this page should be considered, and improved, together with Imprint (disambiguation). Superficially, that one is a good WP:DPAGE. There is a big problem concerning the pages jointly, however, so that one is no good in the context of this one. The other page identifies as WP:PRIMARYTOPIC a narrow definition of "imprint, in the publishing industry" (linked as i have done here) --namely "a brand name under which a work is published". But the bullet list on that page gives no other senses for imprint in publishing. The bullet list on this page gives other sense[s] of imprint in publishing --currently, as the 1st, 3rd, and 4th of four bullet points in the lead section. (In the preceding Talk section 2, User:DDWP proposed in 2009 that there is at least another important sense of imprint in publishing.)
 * Next day, those other senses of imprint in publishing are the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th as listed here. ...

The bullet points on this page, and section 2 above, are too long to be bullet points in a good DPAGE. But their content should be indicated on the DPAGE Imprint (disambiguation), perhaps under an intermediate heading
 * Imprint, in publishing, may also refer to:

followed by the currently only heading
 * Imprint may also refer to:

--P64 (talk) 23:45, 14 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Yesterday I cross-referenced this note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation. Two other editors revised this page today. I resequenced the four bullet points here and reworded the lead of DPAGE Imprint (disambiguation). --P64 (talk) 16:07, 15 December 2014 (UTC)