DoIT Digital Publishing & Printing DoIT Digital Publishing & Printing Glossary

at right angles to direction of paper grain. Opposite of paper grain direction

a plastic coil that has a 4:1 pitch ratio used as a binding material to hold a book together

print ready copy

C, one of the four process colors used in the CMYK printing process, blue in color

a quality control device to measure the density of printing ink

the degree of color or darkness of an image or photograph

a halftone picture made up of two printed colors

shiny, reflective, smooth finish on paper or laminate

the direction in which the paper fiber lie

converting a continuous tone to dots for printing

the arrangement of pages on a press sheet, or, the arrangement of fields on a document

putting an image on paper

adding copy to a previously printed page

postal information place on a printed product

an outline drawing (see also trim box defintion)

using a high-temperature process to melt plastic on paper, can be one or two-sided

M, one of the four process colors used in the CMYK printing process, pink/purple in color

dull paper, ink, or laminate finish

two or more different images placed on one sheet two or more of the same images up on one sheet

multiple-part paper form that does not use carbon paper

the image on a film that inverts color

using an intermediate surface to transfer ink. This also occurs when images of freshly printed sheets transfer images to each other

material that is to be reproduced using various printing methods. i.e., PDFs, documents, photographs, artwork, product sample, or artist's drawing

total number of pages in a book including blanks

(PMS) Industry standard for ink mixing

a series of small cuts at regular intervals usually made to help a sheet tear apart evenly

type of binding that uses glue on the spine of the sheets to adhere a cover to the sheets, like a phone book

see page 14, job F141491 for example

typically 44 hole (on 11" sheet of paper) on the binding-edge of a sheet of paper, created by punching the paper using a die that punches out the holes

two folds at right angles to each other

a sheet of printed pages that when folded become part of a publication (i.e., book, magazine, etc.)

only one side of the page is printed, meaning the back side of each page is blank

the binding edge of a publication (i.e., book, magazine, etc.)

the process of placing the same image on a single sheet or page of a document multiple times

a type of binding that uses a strip of durable tape to hold a book together lines that indicate where to trim before a job goes on the collator or other binding equipment, by doing this it allows the operator to still see the trim marks for final trim

a shade of a single color or combined colors

used to expand the dominant ink to be printed larger-than the less-dominant ink, used to help tight registration on offset printing

protective liquid coating applied to printed sheets (similar to varnish), bonded and cured with ultra-violet (UV) light

clear ink-like substance that is applied to printed surfaces for appearance and protection

folding or feeding paper into the press or folder parallel to the grain of paper

using the same plate and same guide, printing one side of a sheet, and flipping it from gripper to tail to print on the back of the sheet. Similar to perfecting but 2 passes

using the same plate and common guide, printing one side of a sheet, and flipping it from left to right to print on the back of the sheet