Broadside (printing)

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A broadside is a large sheet of paper, generally printed on one side and folded into a smaller size, often used as a direct-mail piece or for door-to-door distribution. Traditionally, printed works were printed on broadside sheets, then folded and cut to produce books of a smaller page size than the original sheet.

In the UK the only national daily newspaper still printed in a broadsheet format is the Daily Telegraph, all the other serious daily newspapers (except The Guardian, which uses the Berliner format) have followed the style of the red tops and are now printed in tabloid format.

Broadsides have been taken by many small presses and publishers as a fine art offshoot of their work. Most often featuring a letter-press poem and accompanying art of some sort, these are frame-worthy pieces.

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