Printing Terminology

1. 13. Abbreviation for cyan, magenta, yellow and key (black), the four process colors.

RGB mode

CMYK

XY2 mode

2. 17. One of the four process colors. Also known as process blue.

Cyan

Magenta

Green

3. 21. Encapsulated Post Script, a known file format usually used to transfer post script information from one program to another.

EPS

PS

WYSIWYG

4. 4. Printing that extends to the edge of a sheet or page after trimming.

Blow up

Bleed

Blocking

5. 28. To bind sheets that have been ground at the spine and are held to the cover by glue. Also called adhesive bind, cut-back bind, glue bind, paper bind, patent bind, perfecting bind, soft bind and soft cover.

Perfect bind

Perfection bound

Perfectly bound

6. 31. Sharpness of an image on film, paper, computer screen, disc, tape or other medium.

Resolution

Rubylith

Mechanical

7. 19. Measure of resolution of input devices such as scanners, display devices such as monitors, and output devices such as laser printers, imagesetters and monitors. Abbreviated DPI. Also called dot pitch.

Dots per inch

Pixels per yard

Extra points per inch

8. 25. Abbreviation for black in four-color process printing. Hence the 'K' in CMYK.

K

C

Y

9. 3. Coating in a water base and applied like ink by a printing press to protect and enhance the printing underneath.

Aqueous coating

Base negative

Anti-offset powder

10. 22. Size of product after production is completed, as compared to flat size. Also called trimmed size.

Finished size

Extended size

Dramatic size

11. 1. At right angles to the grain direction of the paper being used, as compared to with the grain. Also called across the grain and cross grain.

Acid free paper

Additive color

Against the grain

12. 6. Category of paper commonly used for writing, printing and photocopying. Also called business paper, communication paper, correspondence paper and writing paper.

Bond paper

Bulky paper

Bristol stock

13. 5. A page number not printed on the page. (In the book arena, a blank page traditionally does not print a page number.)

Blind folio

Board

Blank page

14. 20. Simulation of the final product. Also called mockup.

Simulated copy

Dummy

Ventriloquist

15. 26. Artist style in which width is greater than height.

Border

Landscape

Frontier

16. 30. Cross-hair lines on mechanicals and film that help keep flats, plates, and printing in register. Also called crossmarks and position marks.

Registration marks

Repeat marks

Block marks

17. 14. To bind by inserting the teeth of a flexible plastic comb through holes punched along the edge of a stack of paper. Also called plastic bind and GBC bind (a brand name).

Comb bind

Teeth bind

Rubber bind

18. 18. A letter fold at the side of one of the creases, an indentation occurs.

Cat ear

Dog ear

Elephant ear

19. 16. Lines near the edges of an image indicating portions to be reproduced.

Crop marks

Bleed marks

Express marks

20. 29. A unit of measure in the printing industry. A pica is approximately 0.166 in. There are 12 points to a pica.

Pica

Modem

Pinhole

21. 32. To bind by stapling sheets together where they fold at the spine, as compared to side stitch. Also called pamphlet stitch, saddle wire and stitch bind.

Cross-hair stitch

Saddle-stitch

Perfect-stitch

22. 8. Abbreviations for coated one side and coated two sides.

B1S and B2S

F4S and F6S

C1S and C2S

23. 10. Paper coated with chemicals that enable transfer of images from one sheet to another with pressure from writing or typing.

Pressure paper

Chemical paper

NCR paper

24. 27. Amount of space between lines of type.

Leading

Kerning

Routing

25. 7. In offset printing a repeating registration problem in the printing stage of production.

Bounce

Block

Circumference

26. 9. Mechanicals, photographs and art fully prepared for reproduction according to the technical requirements of the printing process being used. Also called finished art and reproduction copy.

Camera-ready copy

Mechanical-ready copy

Art-ready copy

27. 23. Refers to inexpensive copies of photos or art used on mechanical to indicate placement and scaling, but not intended for reproduction.

FPO

CPO

DPO

28. 12. To adjust the relationship among the process colors to achieve desirable colors.

Blind correctedness

Spot color resolution

Color correct

29. 15. Phenomenon of middle pages of a folded signature extending slightly beyond outside pages. Also called feathering, outpush, push out and thrust.

Creep

Flow

Push out

30. 2. Any change made by the customer after copy or artwork has been given to the service bureau, separator or printer. The change could be in copy, specifications or both.

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