Against the grain

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


Coil Bind

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


Customer's Originals

print ready copy


Cyan

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


Densitometer

a quality control device to measure the density of printing ink


Density

the degree of color or darkness of an image or photograph


Duotone

a halftone picture made up of two printed colors


Gloss finish

shiny, reflective, smooth finish on paper or laminate


Grain

the direction in which the paper fiber lie


Halftone

converting a continuous tone to dots for printing


Imposition

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


Impression

putting an image on paper


Imprint

adding copy to a previously printed page


Indicia

postal information place on a printed product


Keyline

an outline drawing (see also trim box defintion)


Laminate

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


Matte finish

dull paper, ink, or laminate finish


Multi on

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


NCR

multiple-part paper form that does not use carbon paper


Negative

the image on a film that inverts color


Offsetting

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


Original

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


Pantone Matching System

(PMS) Industry standard for ink mixing


Perf (Perforation)

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


Perfect bind

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


Perfecting

see page 14, job F141491 for example


Punch

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


Right-Angle fold

two folds at right angles to each other


Signature

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


Single-sided

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


Spine

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


Step-and-repeat

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


Tape Bind

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


Trapping

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


UV Coating

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


Varnish

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


With the grain

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


Work and tumble

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


Work and turn

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