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Production refers to the finalization of peer-reviewed, board-approved projects that have been placed with a particular press. Its endpoint is distribution to the public in some form. Each component of a project is assessed from the perspective of bringing the project into conformity with the highest applicable standards before release. As with many other services initiated by np:, production's role is to some degree malleable with each new press, but np: brings a context-specific care both to project production and to the reassessment informing and implied by a project's release.