publishing

The publisher is often equated with a smooth printing even though technically each have different activities. Here are some understanding of the issuer by some experts.

1. Hassan Pambudi: Issuing means publish to the public, explores the general public, words and images that  have been created by creative souls, then edited by the editors for the next duplicated by the printing press.
2. Datus C. Smith Jr. cit. Sembiring: Issuer is a center of all activities that have a relationship with other elements in the book industry.
3. Graphic Dictionary Lexicon: the publisher is the person who tried to remove the manuscript as printed matter so to publish.
4. Sembiring (1987): the publisher is the person who coordinates the dissemination of the work of someone in the field of literature and science.
5. Mansoor (1999) the publisher is the author and editors who prepared the manuscript, while the printing is the party who prepared the publisher to reproduce the manuscript.

Based on the understanding it can be concluded that the original publisher there who interpret it as an individual, but in its development, the issuer is a neatly organized institution, which handles activities since getting the script, script processing (editing), doubling the script that has been processed, and disseminate products publishing in printed form so. 

Publishing and printing activities each having different duties and functions, but both are interdependent. Publishers work preparing the manuscript, processed the manuscript, submit manuscripts to the printing and disseminating the results of mold, while printing only serves to reproduce the manuscript in the form of printouts. Viewed from the responsibility of its activities, penerbitlah responsible for all activities, since the preparation of the manuscript to publishing products are distributed. Although the printing function to reproduce the text, but the quality and number of printouts remain in control of the issuer, meaning that printing should be able to fulfill the orders of the issuer, and is responsible for the quality and quantity of products to meet market demand is the publisher. Therefore, it can be said that the publishing activities broader than the activities of printing, and can even be said that the activities of printing is one part of the publishing activities. 

In its development activities not only serve the printing orders from publishers, but to serve the printing activities outside of publishing products, such as print: invitations, business cards, calendars, screen printing, and so forth. Several major publishers usually have their own printing, whereas small-scale publishers typically use printing services outside of publishing. This means that despite the publisher is responsible for the reproduce script, the publisher should not have their own printing. The term "Publisher" and "Printing" is often used simultaneously so that is sometimes difficult to distinguish, although both have functions and responsibilities are different.