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Glossary of Print Terms
Every industry has it's buzz words. Please use our glossary of print terms as the need arises.
Author's alterations: customer's corrections/changes made at the proofing stage. These are charged to the customer.
Binding: process of fastening papers together.
Bitmap: a grid of pixels or printed dots generated by computer to represent type and images.
Bleed: the printed image extends beyond the trim edge of a sheet or page. A bleed may occur at the head, front, foot and/or gutter of a page.
Carbonless paper: paper coated with chemicals that enable transfer of images from one sheet to another with pressure from writing or typing.
CMYK: abbreviation for cyan, magenta, yellow and key (black), the 4 process colours, which combined together in varying proportions can be made to produce the full colour spectrum.
Collating: arranging of printed sheets into the desired sequence.
Colour Separation: process by which a continuous tone colour image is separated into the four process colours for print production.
Cover paper: a heavyweight paper made particularly to protect inner, thinner sheets of such printed items as booklets.
Crop Marks: marks at the edges of an illustration or photograph to indicate the portion to be reproduced.
DPI: dots per inch; measure for output resolution of various devices.
Dummy: a mock-up made to resemble the final printed product which uses the proposed grade, weight, finish and colour of paper.
Estimate: a price given to a customer based on specifications provided by the customer. The price can change if the order specifications are not the same as the estimate specifications.
Four-Colour Process: reproduction of full-colour photographs or art with the four basic colours of ink (yellow, magenta, cyan, black).
Gutter: line or fold at which facing pages meet.
Halftone: picture with shades of tone created by varying size dots.
Imagesetter: a device that plots high-resolution bitmaps which have been processed by a RIP. May include type, graphics and tographic images. It outputs a to film or paper.
Justified: text which is flush to both the left and right margins.
Line Copy: copy which can be reproduced without using halftones.
Make-Ready: the work associated with the set-up of printing equipment before running a job.
Over-Run: copies printed in excess of the quantity specified in the order.
Perfect Binding: a bookbinding method in which pages are glued rather than sewn to the cover. Used primarily for paperback books.
Point: a measurement for the size of type, distance between lines and thickness of rules. One point equals one seventy-second of an inch (0.3515mm).
Ragged Right: typesetting style in which lines end in unequal lengths on the right side (usually justified on left).
Registration Marks: crosses or other marks placed on artwork which ensure perfect alignment ('registration').
Reversed-out: type appearing white on a black or colour background, either a solid or a tint.
Resolution: the number of dots per inch (dpi) in a computer-processed document. The level detail retained by a printed document increases with higher resolution.
RIP (raster image processor): computer used to create an electronic bitmap for actual output. This may be built into an imagesetter or may be separate.
Saddle Stitch: a binding process in which a pamphlet or booklet is stapled through the middle fold of its sheets using saddle wire.
Score: a pressed mark in a sheet of paper, usually a thick paper, to make folding cleaner and easier.
Self-cover: the paper used inside a booklet is the same as that used for the cover and is generally printed on the same press run.
Signature: folded, printed paper forming a section of a book; usually in a multiple of four, and more often a multiple of eight.
Solid: an area on the page which is completely covered by the ink.
Stock: the paper or card which is to be printed on.
Transparency: or slide: 35mm, 4" x 5" or 8" x 10" positive image on film which can be projected on a screen or scanned as artwork.
Tint: an area of tone made by a pattern of dots, which lightens the apparent colour of the ink with which it is printed.
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