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1. a positive photographic image in colour or black and white produced, usually on paper, from a negative image on film
2. 
a. a fabric with a printed design
b. (as modifier): a print dress
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[print]
(graphic arts)
A photographic copy made by placing a negative or transparency in contact with a sensitized surface or by projecting the image on a screen or sensitized photographic medium, and then developing the result.
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print

1. A plaster cast of a flat ornament.
2.See printing.
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PRINT

(language)
PRe-edited INTerpreter.

An early mathematics language for the IBM 705.

[Sammet 1969, p. 134].
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print

To send information from the computer to an attached printer or to a printer in the network. See preview mode.
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Print

 

a fabric whose surface is decorated with a printed design. Prints originally were made by hand using blocks with raised designs. Later the term “print” was applied to all fabrics with designs made by printing machines.

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However, the 35mm release print is big business for film stock manufacturers and "whilst the actual sales figures remain trade secrets, it is fairly safe to assume that the bulk of their trade comes from 35mm release prints, not origination stock" (Crofts, "Digital Decay" 24).
Without having a blanket digital infrastructure digital distribution is impossible, as distributors still have to operate with both 35mm film release prints and Digital Cinema Distribution Masters (DCDMs).
Cinema distribution in the age of digital projection
Word is both versions will play at Berlin, but release prints are being negotiated.
Klimt
Some pirated copies are camcorded off a projection screen, but the timecode on the "Sith" copy is something that's never seen on release prints.
Pirates wreak 'Revenge'
Current film projectors aren't built to accommodate higher frame rates, and release prints would be too bulky and expensive if they used, say, twice as much film as they do now.
Film not ready to cede to tape
From the days of the earliest silent features, studios and filmmakers have trusted Deluxe with their camera negatives and relied on the company to strike and distribute their release prints.
The company has deals with Fox, Paramount, Sony, MGM, Miramax and New Line to strike release prints, and its physical transport company, Entertainment Transportation Specialists, ships prints to theaters for Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros., Miramax and New Line.
The digital divide: Stalwart film lab balances present and future formats
But digital technology continues to pervade the distribution chain for theatrical release prints. In recognition of this trend, the company in 2004 acquired a 100% stake in Efilm, a joint venture it had started with Panavision to develop digital intermediate and source master technology.
Entertainment Transportation Specialists then follows release prints from their creation, to their reception at one of 28 distribution depots nationwide, through their screening at a specific theater and, finally, back to the depots for destruction or repurposing.
Hollywood's safe-deposit box: lab also handles vast array of promo material
The FCT program was first unveiled by Deluxe Labs in Hollywood several years ago for theatrical release prints.
The code expands: Deluxe broadens watermark use beyond awards screeners
Atlab has avoided the need for layoffs by handling release prints for U.S.
Gov't ramps up funding fast
Some of the dialect, though pared to the bone, is so authentic that Italian subtitles are used on local release prints.
Pater Familias
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