Print Dictionary

Printing

Crop Marks

Printing

Crop Marks

Crop marks, also known as trim marks or registration marks, are thin lines placed at the corners of a printed piece or document. These marks indica...

Binding

Creep

"Creep" refers to the phenomenon where inner pages of a multi-page document appear to shift or protrude slightly from the outer edges when folded a...

Binding

Signature

A "signature" is a set of pages that are printed on a single sheet of paper, which is then folded, trimmed, and bound together to form a section or...

Printing

Apochromatic

Apochromatic refers to a type of lens or optical device designed to bring three wavelengths of light (typically red, green, and blue) into focus in...

Printing

Line Copy

In printing, "line copy" refers to text or graphics composed primarily of solid lines or simple shapes, typically used for logos, diagrams, charts,...

Design

Key

In the context of printing, "key" refers to the black component of the four primary printing colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, and key/black - CMYK). ...

Printing

ICC (International Color Consortium)

The International Color Consortium was established in 1993 to create and promote the standardization and evolution of an open, vendor-neutral, cros...

Design

Gapless

In print, "gapless" refers to a type of printing press or printing process that eliminates the gaps between print images on a roll of paper or othe...

Design

Wrong Font

Wrong font refers to an instance where the typeface used in a print or digital document does not match the specified or intended design requirement...

Printing

XML

XML is A flexible, text-based markup language that provides a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machi...

Printing

Paste Dryer

A paste dryer is a specialized device used in the printing industry to accelerate the drying process of ink or paste on printed materials. This equ...

Printing

Gutter

In typography and graphic design, a "gutter" refers to the space between columns of text or the inner margins between facing pages in a layout, suc...

Printing

Fake Color

Fake color, also known as false color, is a digital image processing technique used to enhance the visualization of images by assigning colors to g...