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Print Portfolio

  • Aqueous Coating – A clear coating used to protect printed pieces to create a high-gloss surface that improves durability.
  • Binding – Binding is used to bind or fasten a book together. Some printers may offer you a service to bind your printed works.
  • Bleed – After paper has been printed, the inks may run over the trim marks of the paper. This is known as ‘bleeding.’
  • C1S And C2S – Acronyms used for ‘Coated One Side’ and ‘Coated Two Sides’ paper stock. It’s a cover stock with a glossy finish on one side and uncoated on the other, usually between .008″ and 0.18″ in thickness.
  • CMYK – Color model using Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black to create images and text on paper.
  • Coating – To reduce the risk of ink smudging after printing, a special liquid coating can be applied to the paper. It’s particularly beneficial for literature prints.
  • Creep – Refers to the moving or shift that happens to the margins in a document when pages are folded during the finishing process of a booklet. The amount of creep can vary depending on the thickness of paper and the number of pages.
  • Crop Marks – Lines put onto the pages to show where the document or print will be trimmed.
  • Debossing – Stamping a design into the surface of an object or paper so that there’s an indent.
  • Die-cut – In the world of printing, a Die refers to a precise, razor-sharp steel blade that allows multiple pieces of the same shape to be created in an efficient and uniform manner.
  • Digital Printing – Using lasers, digital printing is a fast printing method and commonly used in offices and at home. It’s ideal for quick and small-scale jobs.
  • Dummy – Before printing a large quantity, it’s the norm to print a ‘dummy’ to show the customer an example of the finished product.
  • Dye-Sublimation – Rather than putting color onto the material, dye-sublimation changes the color of the material instead.
  • Embossing – The process of creating raised relief images on paper and other materials. The design will bulge out of the paper.
  • Finishing – The finishing touches of a print (for example, cutting the crop lines and adding protective gloss).
  • Flexography – A method commonly used for printing onto uneven surfaces such as packaging. Flexographic printing uses a flexible relief plate to print and this process prints letters and small texts – popularly used for labels.
  • Folds – With fold variations as concertina, gate, closed gate and French, folds can give you different options for presenting your documents.
  • Font – The font refers to the style of letters used in the print.
  • Ghosting – On a printed image, another lighter image in the same print is called ghosting because of the lighter, ghostly finish.
  • Hickey – An accidental imperfection mark that appears on a finished printing product; it may be caused by dust or issues with the ink.
  • Imposition – The arrangement of pages in a sequence which reads consecutively when the printed sheet is folded.
  • Ink Set-Off – Ink that is unintentionally transferred from a printed sheet to the back of the sheet above it when the materials have been printed and are stacked in a pile.
  • Interleaves – Printed pages loosely inserted in a publication, typically blank.
  • Jog – To shuffle a stack of finished pages to align them for final trimming or binding.
  • Kerning – In typography, this is the process of adjusting the visual spacing between characters, usually to achieve a more aesthetically pleasing result.
  • Laminate – A thin transparent, plastic sheet applied to usually a thick stock to provide a glossy protective layer against liquid and heavy use.
  • Lithography – Lithographic printing is popularly used for high-quality image printing. The image is placed on the lithography plate, inked and then printed onto the paper. It’s a fast and smooth printing process.
  • Logotype – A personalized design specifically for a company or product.
  • Metallic Ink – Made with powdered metal or pigments that reflect to make text look metallic. The most common colors used are silver and gold.
  • Monochrome – An image in black and white or varying tones of only one color (for example, different shades of green – green, lime, pear, pine, etc.)
  • Opacity – The quality of the paper defines the opaqueness of it. If it isn’t opaque enough, your design might show through to the other side.
  • Original – Before you can start any printing work, the printing press will need the ‘original’ – which is the original image you wish to produce.
  • Overprinting – Any additional printing over an area that’s already been done.
  • Pantone Color – A universal color language that designers, printing companies and brand owners use. This helps the right color to be achieved again and again.
  • PPI – Pages or pixels per inch.
  • Process Colors – The process colors are cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The printer combines these base colors to create different colors.
  • Proofing – The best way to avoid expensive mistakes in printing. It’s important to pay close attention to the proofs you receive to ensure the design, copy and color has no errors.
  • Ream – 500 sheets of paper.
  • Reel – A continuous length of paper wrapped around a cylinder is commonly referred to as a reel of paper.
  • Register – To accurately position an image or text onto paper, register marks are used as reference points to help make sure the printing work is accurate at every step.
  • RGB – The color space of Red, Green, and Blue which computers use to display images on your screen. An RGB computer file must be translated into CMYK in order to be printed accurately.
  • Satin Finish – A smooth and soft finish over the paper.
  • Screen Printing – With screen printing, a fine mesh is used to transfer an image onto another material. It’s useful for printing logos onto clothes and printing fabric banners.
  • Spot Color – This is achieved by actually mixing ink into the desired color you want in your print project, as opposed to using the CMYK process to achieve it.
  • Spot Coating/Varnish – A way of highlighting a certain area of a page by selectively applying a varnish to it.
  • Stock – This is what’s receiving your printed images and content. It can be paper, card, foil or whatever. It can also massively alter the impact of printed pieces.
  • Transparency – This refers to images or text that aren’t completely opaque. Just make sure to flatten your transparency and spot color to CMYK to avoid issues when printing.
  • Trim – This is the line cut to produce the finished size. The trim cuts through the bleed area to ensure a continuous and sharp edge around a design.
  • Typo – A spelling mistake in the printed text material.
  • Typography – Everything related to the text on the printed product. Your printer will want to know the layout of your text, along with color and style.
  • Ultraviolet Light – UV light is a form of radiation which isn’t visible to the human eye, it’s in an invisible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. In LED UV printing technology, this light is what instantly dries the ink.
  • UV Curing – A drying method which uses light instead of heat. It’s a photochemical process where the high-intensity UV light instantly cures or dries inks, coatings and adhesives.
  • UV Coating/Varnish – A thin coating which is applied to a printed sheet for protection and appearance. It’s dried immediately by UV light.
  • Watermark – A logo or design printed onto the paper. It’s only visible under light.