Glossary By Issue
- Entire Glossary
- #16 Digital Possibilities
- #15 Interactive Print
- #14 Getting Personal
- #13 Balance
- #12 Standards
- #11 Print It
- #10 Prepress
- #9 Understanding Ink
- #8 Digital Variables
- #7 Retouching
- #6 Embossing / Foil Stamping
- #5 Enhancing Color
- #4 Protective Covering
- #3 Stochastic / Conventional
- #2 Quadtones
- #1 Metallics
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Adobe PostScript A text-based page description language …more »
A text-based page description language that describes how to handle both text and graphics for printing.
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CMYK Abbreviation for cyan, magenta, yellow …more »
Abbreviation for cyan, magenta, yellow and black—the four colors used in most color commercial printing. When printed using transparent inks, the three subtractive primaries—cyan, magenta and yellow—act as individual filters to transmit and absorb light reflected from the surface of the paper to create the colors seen by the eye. Intermediate colors—colors other than the subtractive primaries—are formed by laying one film of ink over another. Black is added to enhance the depth and extend the tonal range of all hues.
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Color Management The hardware, software and procedures …more »
The hardware, software and procedures used to ensure the accurate, consistent and repeatable representation of color throughout the print production process.
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Digital Printing Printing by one of a …more »
Printing by one of a number of imaging systems, with the images generated from digital data. Digital printing systems include production color laser, laser copiers/printers, and ink-jet as well as digital offset technologies.
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Pixel Short for “picture element". The …more »
Short for “picture element". The smallest individual component of a digital image, usually a colored dot. The greater the number of pixels per inch, the greater the resolution.
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Raster Image Processor An electronic device that receives …more »
An electronic device that receives design files and outputs streams of bits directly to a digital printer, imagesetter, or platesetter or to a computer display.
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Retouching The process of altering an …more »
The process of altering an image, especially to remove defects or change its content. Retouching includes correction of mechanical problems, such as removing shadows or dust, as well as alterations to the image. Retouching may be performed with pencils, a brush and inks, or with an airbrush on a negative, before printing, or on a print. Digital retouching, which makes changes to pixel values to enhance or change the appearance of the image, is typically done on a computer before printing.
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RGB Abbreviation for red, green and …more »
Abbreviation for red, green and blue—the three additive primaries, used to create colors on computers screens, televisions and other light-emitting electronic devices. By mixing any two of the primaries—in overlapping colored beams of light projected on a video screen, for example—the intermediate colors are reproduced. White is formed by combining all three additive primaries, while black is their total absence.
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Stochastic Printing A family of printing techniques …more »
A family of printing techniques in which continuous tone-like images are reproduced using micro dots of all the same size, with variable spacing between the dots (first-order stochastic printing) or variably-sized dots and variable spacing between the dots (second-order stochastic printing). Identified by a number of trade names, including Staccato®, Diamond™ and others. Also see FM printing
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Undercolor Removal In color printing, the process …more »
In color printing, the process of reducing colors and printing a full black in shadow areas. UCR can be used to improve trapping and reduce ink and makeready costs.