| Title: | Final proof or first pull |
| Original Title: | Tierce |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 16 (1765), p. 321 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | IML Donaldson [University of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh] |
| Subject terms: |
Printing
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| Citation (MLA): | "Final proof or first pull." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.293>. Trans. of "Tierce," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 16. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Final proof or first pull." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.293 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Tierce," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 16:321 (Paris, 1765). |
The final proof , a term in Printing, is the third proof or it is the first sheet printed [1] immediately after the forme has been made ready and before the whole of the planned run for a work is printed. [2] Whether a work turns out to have three or four proofs pulled, it is always the last of these which is called the final proof . The foreman of the print shop must pay great attention to ensure that all the errors marked on the previous proof have been completely corrected. The final proof must be like a first good sheet and be absolutely free of all errors; if it is not, another [proof] is required. See Making ready.
Notes
1. The ‘first pull’ in English terminology.
2. This definition of tierce is unsatisfactory because it is not entirely clear that the ‘or’ is not exclusive. If the tierce is the third or final proof then it is also the first sheet printed from a newly-set up forme if and only if that sheet contained no errors at all and so no corrections or further proofs were needed. Otherwise, if corrections were needed, and have been made, the tierce is the final of however many proofs and sets of corrections were needed for the compositor to get the printed text to agree exactly with that of the final corrected copy he was given to set. In these cases it is NOT the first sheet that was printed from the forme.