Printer’s Correction Sign JSS2 Business Studies Lesson Note

 PRINTERS CORRECTION SIGN

CONTENT:

1.         proof reader’s signs
2.         identification
3.         uses of each sign and marks

INTRODUCTION

The hand-written work of a secretary, author, or manager is known as a manuscript. This hand-written work may have to be typed for official purposes. However, in such works, errors may occur and also, abbreviations may have been used. The errors in the manuscript must be corrected before such works are printed. In such works, there are standard or known correction signs as well as long-hand abbreviations that a secretary or typist must be familiar with. These signs guide the typist, secretary, or printer to do an efficient job.

Any document containing any error must not be allowed to leave the office. Before a fair copy is typed, the writer makes corrections either in the margin or in the text.

Printers’ corrections signs are signs that are made by editors, writers, secretaries, or typesetters to mark corrections before a work goes for printing.

Some of the corrective signs and their meanings are as follows:-

Some of these signs and their meanings are as follows:-