DoIT Digital Publishing & Printing DoIT Digital Publishing & Printing Glossary

to cut off parts of a picture or image

printed lines showing where to trim a printed sheet

Drop fold is a set of multiple pages that fold together as a booklet, and are then dropped into a machine that does a right angle fold, commonly for mailing.

metal fingers on a printing press that hold the paper as it passes through the press, the image is registered in relation to the gripper. Similar to sideguide

imposition

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

small magnifying glass used to review a printed image, plate, and position film

(see Step-and-repeat)

term for uncoated paper

the amount of show-through on a printed sheet. The lesser the amount of show-through the thicker the paper, the more show-through the thinner the paper

pagination sheet

total number of pages in a book including blanks

(PMS) Industry standard for ink mixing

perfect bind / perfect bound

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

page

unit of measurement. One pica = 1/6 inch

Plate is a metal plate is imaged in a plate setter for each separation on an offset press job.

gripper space. The area where the grippers hold the sheet as it passes through the press

Pantone Matching System (see Pantone Matching System definition)

the mixed ink graphic standard for UW printing; also UW red

the process of combining four basic colors to create a printed color picture or colors composed from the basic four colors

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

rough layout of a printed piece showing position and finished size

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

to keep each piece separate or independent

Staple is a term for a staple added to a printed packet or book, commonly in the upper left corner or along the left side of a booklet.

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

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