Composite
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Definition: 1) Design: A preliminary design or sketch is a comp, comprehensive artwork, or composite. 2) An image composed of many images or any page made up of text, images, other elements is a composite image.
3) Prepress/Printing: Color separation file which contains all color information in one file that can printed as a composite or separated into the individual color plates for printing.
Also Known As: comp, comprehensive, dummy (1)
Related Resources:
Comps and Dummies for Desktop Publishing
A dummy and a comp (short for comprehensive artwork) are both mock-ups of your design. They serve varying purposes and come at different stages of the design and publishing process from rough sketches to "almost like finished" dummy layouts.
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