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Galley proof

Galleys redirects here. For other uses, see Galley (disambiguation)
Galley (disambiguation)

Galley may refer to* Galley, a ship primarily powered by multiple sets of oars* Galley , the kitchen of a ship or an airplane* Galley proof, a preliminary version of a publication, often in unbound or electronic form...
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In printing

Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
and publication

Publication

To publish is to make Content publicly knowledge. The term is most frequently applied to the distribution of text or images on paper, or to the placing of content on a website....
, proofs are preliminary versions of publications. They may be uncut and unbound

Bookbinding

Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It also usually involves attaching covers to the resulting text-block....
, or in some cases electronic

Electronic publishing

Electronic publishing includes the digital publication of e-books and electronic articles, and the development of digital library and catalogues....
. They are normally created as part of the proofreading

Proofreading

Proof-reading traditionally means reading a proof copy of a writing in order to detect and correct any errors. Modern proofreading often requires reading Copy at earlier stages as well....
and copyediting processes, but can be used for promotional and review purposes also.

Galley proofs are so named because in the days of hand-set type

Letterpress printing

Letterpress printing is a term for the 'relief' printing of text and image using a press with a "type-high bed", in which a reversed, raised surface is inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper to obtain a positive right-reading image....
, the printer would set the page into "galleys": metal trays into which the type was laid and tightened into place.

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In printing

Printing

Publication

Bookbinding

Electronic publishing

Proofreading

Letterpress printing

Proofreading

Proof-reading traditionally means reading a proof copy of a writing in order to detect and correct any errors. Modern proofreading often requires reading Copy at earlier stages as well....
. The printer would then receive the edits, re-arrange the type, and print the final version.

Some publishers use paper galley proofs as advance reading copies

Advance copy

An advance copy, also known as an advance reading copy or ARC, is a copy of a book released by its Publishing before the book has gone to press for a complete printing....
, providing them to reviewers, magazines, and libraries in advance of final publication. These proofs are normally bound, but may be lacking illustrations (or have them in black and white only). Proofs in electronic form are rarely used as advance reading copies due to the possibility of a recipient editing the proof and issuing it as their own.

Proofs issued earlier in the proofreading and copyediting process are called either galleys or galley proofs, while those created in a near-final version for editing and checking purposes are called page proofs. It is at this stage that most mistakes have already been corrected, and any mistake caught at this stage will be very expensive to correct. Page proofs typically also have a near-final layout, so that the layout can be examined also. Page proofs also have the final pagination

Pagination

Pagination is the system by which the information on a newspaper, bookpage, manuscript, or otherwise handwritten, printed or displayed document is laid out....
, which facilitates compiling the index

Index (publishing)

An index is a list of words or phrases and associated pointers to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document. In a traditional back-of-the-book index the headings will include names of people, places and events, and concepts selected by a person as being relevant and of interest to a possible reader of the boo...
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