The editing process that manuscripts went through to become a printed product during the Golden Age is studied. This complex framework in which the interests of the author and those of the printer came into play has left clues in different documentary testimonies. Among these we find the printing contracts, the powers and the obligations, thanks to which we can reconstruct the attitude expressed by the authors towards the publication of their works. This article addresses the role that José de Moret played in publishing his texts in Navarra in the second half of the seventeenth century, which shows us the control he exercised over the different printers who printed his works.