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| | | Page count Total number of pages in a book including blanks. |
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| | | Pagination Numbering pages in order. Also, the process of performing page makeup on a computer. |
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| | | Palette The collection of colors or shades available or used in a project, graphic system or program. |
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| | | Panel One page of a brochure on one side of the paper. A letter folded sheet has six panels. |
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| | | Pantone Matching System (PMS) A popular color matching system used by the printing industry to print spot colors (colors that can be reproduced with only their own ink) but not for process colors, which need a combination of the four inks,CMYK. Each PMS color has its own name or number that helps you make sure that your colors are the same each time you print, even if your monitor displays a different color or if you change printing services. | | | | See Below |
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| | | Parallel Fold A folding succession in which all folds are made parallel with each other. |
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| | | Paste-up Placing graphics and text in a mechanical either manually or electronically. |
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| | | Pattern carbon Special carbon paper used in business forms that only transfers in certain areas. |
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| | | Perfect bind A type of binding that glues the edge of sheets to a cover like a telephone book, Microsoft software manual, or Country Living Magazine. |
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| | | Perfect Binding Most often found in paperback books, this binding process uses glue to hold the pages in place. During this process, the left edge of each sheet is roughened, and then glue is applied. A cover is then placed over the pages, keeping everything in place. | | | | Signatures that are folded and collated on top of one another, as opposed to saddle-stitch binding in which the signatures are folded inside one another. |
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| | | Perfecting press A sheet fed printing press that prints both sides of a sheet in one pass. |
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| | | Photostat Brand name for a diffusion transfer process used to make positive paper prints of line copy and halftones. |
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| | | Phototypesetting Setting type directly on film or photosensitive paper for reproduction. |
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| | | Pica Unit of measure commonly used in typesetting and design. A pica is one-sixth of an inch. |
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| | | Picking Printers nightmare that occurs as the surface of a sheet lifts off during printing. Generally a paper manufactures quality control problem. | | | | The lifting of the paper surface during printing, leaving unprinted spots in image areas. This occurs when the pulling force (tack) of the ink is greater than the surface strength of the paper. |
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| | | Pickup Art Artwork from a previous job incorporated into a current job. |
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| | | Pigment The fine, solid particles used to give color, transparency or opacity to ink. |
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| | | Piling The building up or caking of ink on rollers, plates or blankets which will not transfer readily. |
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| | | Pin register A standard used to fit film to film and film to plates and plates to press to assure the proper registration of printer colors. |
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| | | Pinholes Tiny areas that are not covered by ink. |
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| | | Pixel Swopping A CEPS technique to exchange pixels from one area of a picture for pixels in another area. Example; a window may be removed from a brick building if one area of the brick wall is placed in that area of the picture. Using this technique, blemishes can be removed and objects can be added to the reproduction. |
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| | | Pixel Abbreviation for picture element. The separate elements of a bitmapped image on a video
monitor. The basic square unit of screen images. Screen images usually have 72 pixels per inch. |
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| | | Plate gap Gripper space. The area where the grippers hold the sheet as it passes through the press. |
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| | | Plate Piece of paper, metal, plastic or rubber carrying an image to be reproduced using a printing press. |
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| | | Plates Printing plates are molds or cylinders used by the printing press to imprint materials with ink. They can be made in a variety of substances, ranging from metal to rubber or paper. |
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| | | PMS Acronym for Pantone Matching
System, a set of preprinted color patches used to choose and communicate color so exact matches can be obtained. |
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| | | PMT Abbreviated name for photomechanical transfer. Often used to make position prints. |
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| | | Point For paper, a unit of thickness equaling 1/1000 inch. for typesetting, a unit of height equaling 1/72 inch. There are 12 points in a pica. |
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| | | Porosity The property of paper that allows the permeation of air, an important factor in ink penetration. |
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| | | Portrait An image or page in which the height is greater than the width. Also refers to the orientation of pages, tables and illustrations that are printed vertically or "upright." Also see landscape. |
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| | | Position Proof A color proof that is made to verify that all the elements of the reproduction (text, graphics and pictures) are in the correct position and are in register with each other. |
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| | | Positive A reproduction which is exactly like the original. |
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| | | Post Bind To bind using a screw and post inserted though a hole in a pile of loose sheets. |
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| | | PostScript A type of high quality language developed by Adobe Systems to describe pages independent of their resolution. The current standard in the industry, it is widely supported by both hardware and software vendors. |
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| | | Pre-flight customer files To preliminary evaluate customer supplied electronic files for completeness, compatibility, and composition. |
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| | | Pre-flight Procedures used by a printing company to make sure that a customer's digital files are correctly prepared for production. |
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| | | Pre-master To format a data file into the ISO 9660 format (which is the International Standard for CD-ROM), before the mastering process. The data file is then provided to the party responsible for the mastering process (see master). |
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| | | Prepress Proof Any color proof made using ink jet, toner, dyes or overlays. |
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| | | Prepress Camera work, color separating, stripping, platemaking and other functions performed by the printer, separator or service bureau prior to the actual printing. |
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| | | Press Check When a customer is at the printing press as the press begins to print his or her job, in order to approve the job as it is printed. A press check can last a few minutes or several days, depending on the size of the job. |
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| | | Press number A method of numbering manufacturing business forms or tickets. |
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| | | Press Proof A proof made on press using the ink and paper specified for the job. |
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| | | Press Run The actual running of the press to print the job following makeready. Also, the number of copies of a publication printed. |
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| | | Price Break Quantity at which unit cost of paper or printing drops. |
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| | | Primary colors Cyan (blue), magenta (red) and yellow. These three colors when mixed together with black will produce a reasonable reproduction of all other colors. | | | | The colorants of a system used to reproduce the colors for the entire reproduction. Cyan, magenta and yellow are subtractive primary colors while red, green and blue are additive primary colors. |
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| | | Printer's Error (PE) A code name for a mistake made by the printer while typesetting or correcting your copy. You shouldn't get charged if the copy needs to be changed as a result of printer error. |
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| | | Printer's Spread Two facing pages in the order they will be printed, e.g. pages 1 and 4 and also 2 and 3 will be keylined together for a four-page brochure. |
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| | | Printing Any process that transfers to paper or another substrate an image from an original such as film, electronic memory, stencil, die or plate. |
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| | | Process Color Separation A consequence of the offset lithographic process. In order to print full-color images, it is necessary to prepare four separate files for each of the process colors (cyan, magenta, yellow andblack). When the colors are overprinted, they combine to render a wide range of color. CMYK produces the widest range of color with the fewest inks when printing. |
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| | | Process colors Cyan (blue), magenta (process red), yellow (process yellow), black (process black). |
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| | | Process Inks The ink colors of cyan, magenta and yellow used to print color reproductions. |
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| | | Production automation Use of a centralized computer to monitor costing, workflow, job status, pressroom efficiency, billing, etc. |
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| | | Progressive Proof A set of proofs made with ink on paper from the actual plates to show the sequence of printing and the result after each additional color is applied. Also called progs. |
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| | | Proof A page of typeset copy to check for corrections. |
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| | | Proportion Scale Round device used to calculate percentage that an original image must be reduced or enlarged to yield a specific reproduction size. |
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| | | Quadratone A halftone image created by overprinting four different halftone screens of the same image with different tonal values. |
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| | | Quads Refers to the four separated films; cyan, magenta, yellow andblack. |
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| | | Quartertone Those dot percentages that are near the 25 percent printing dot size. |
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| | | Quarto Sheet folded twice, making pages one-fourth the size of the original sheet. A quarto makes an 8-page signature. |
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| | | Quotation Price offered by a printer to produce a specific job. |
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