(set up) the procedures necessary to properly adjust production equipment to perform a print or finishing operation; the act of making ready or setting up to print
Also called set up All work done on a printing press before running a job Make ready includes adjusting the plate, feeders, grippers, side guides; putting inks in the fountains; registration; and matching the printed result to the supplied proof (bringing it up to color) For short runs of a few thousand, the make ready costs are a significant percentage of the total printing costs
Ready-made means extremely convenient or useful for a particular purpose. Those wishing to study urban development have a ready-made example on their doorstep. Everyday object selected and designated as art. The name was coined by Marcel Duchamp, whose first ready-mades included a snow shovel that he picked up on a snowy day in New York, and a wheel mounted on a stool (1913). They represented a protest against the excessive importance attached to works of art. Duchamp's anti-aesthetic gestures made him one of the leading Dadaists of his day, and his ready-made concept, though widely regarded for decades as an insult to art, was adapted by such later artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Jasper Johns
If something that you buy is ready-made, you can use it immediately, because the work you would normally have to do has already been done. We rely quite a bit on ready-made meals -- they are so convenient