REGISTERED

short for registered mail or registered post, prepaid first-class mail that has been recorded at a post office prior to delivery for safeguarding against loss, theft or damage during transmission. —9th ACC Volume 3 Approved Glossary

in correct relation or exact superimposition, as of colors in color printing. I haven't got the time or the inclination to spend forty or fifty hours on a salon exhibition print to get it registered properly. - Study Evaluation of Information (11 Aug. 64) (photography) matched exactly, as in arranging the elements used to make a color print so they are superimposed (laid on top of each other) exactly. One of the methods of making high-quality color photographic prints such as salon exhibition prints is to split the colors of the original photograph into three separate negatives (one containing the red in the original image, one containing the green in the original image, and one containing the blue in the original image) and then recombining them to make the final color print. In order to get a correct reproduction of the color image, these three separate images must be superimposed exactly, and this action is called "registration." I haven't got the time or the inclination to spend forty or fifty hours on a salon exhibition print to get it registered properly.short for registered mail or registered post, prepaid first-class mail that has been recorded at a post office prior to delivery for safeguarding against loss, theft or damage during transmission.