Printing terminology

subtractive color model, used in color printing

thumb|Saint Agnes, mezzotint by John Smith (engraver)|John Smith after [[Godfrey Kneller, usually thought to be a portrait of Kneller's daughter, Catherine Voss]]

company for printed products

thumb|right|A Soviet Union|Soviet soldier reading [[Pravda, a broadsheet newspaper, in 1941]] A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages, typically of in height. Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner and tabloid–compact formats.

unit of measurement

mistake made in typing printed material

frame|Left: Halftone dots. Right: Example of how the human eye would see the dots from a sufficient distance.

Prepress is the term used in the printing and publishing industries for the processes and procedures that occur between the creation of a print layout and the final printing. The prepress process includes the preparation of artwork for press, media selection, proofing, quality control checks and the production of printing plates if required. The artwork is quite often provided by the customer as a print-ready PDF file created in desktop publishing.

white space that surrounds the content of a page

thumb|upright=1|The title-page of the Shakespeare First Folio, 1623 thumb|Single folio from a large Qur'an, North Africa, 8th c. (Khalili Collection)

thumb|300px|right|The catchword (in this case the last three letters "dos" of a divided word) is at the bottom of the page thumb|300px|right|The first page of the Babylonian Talmud (Tractate Berachot, folio 2a). The catchword "דילמא" is found at the bottom of the Talmud text (center), and the commentaries of [[Rashi (center left) and the Tosafot (center right) as the word will begin each text on the next page, 2b.]]

paper, thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper

thumb|Octavo metrics compared to the folio and quarto

printing that goes beyond the edge of the sheet before trimming

thumb|right|Title page of the first quarto edition of Shakespeare's ''Midsummer Night's Dream'', 1600, from the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] thumb|Quarto metrics compared to the folio and octavo Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4º) is the format of a book or pamphlet produced from full sheets printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves. The leaves are then trimmed along the folds to produce eight book pages. Each printed page presents as one-fourth size of the full sheet.

first proofs printed from type, usually before breaking into pages

Imaging technology used in printing

Pagination, also known as paging, is the process of dividing a document into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages.

component used in a printing system which produces a raster image also known as a bitmap

Imposition is one of the fundamental steps in the prepress printing process. It consists of the arrangement of the printed product's pages on the printer's sheet, in order to obtain faster printing, simplify binding and reduce paper waste.

method of applying printed designs to three-dimensional surfaces

thumb|An anilox roll In printing, anilox is a method used to provide a measured amount of ink to a flexographic (flexo) printing plate. An anilox roll is a hard cylinder, usually constructed of a steel or aluminum core which is coated by an industrial ceramic, typically chromium(III) oxide powder, whose surface is engraved with millions of very fine dimples, known as anilox cells. In the printing process, the anilox roll is coated in a precise layer of ink that is then transferred to the raised portions of the printing plate. The number, size, and geometry of the anilox cells vary and will det

thumb|Offprint of Selbstdarstellungen by Sigmund Freud from L.R. Grotes' Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, IV, 1925. An offprint is a separate printing of a work that originally appeared as part of a larger publication, usually one of composite authorship such as an academic journal, magazine, or edited book. Offprints are used by authors to promote their work and ensure a wider dissemination and longer life than might have been achieved through the original publication alone. They may be valued by collectors as akin to the first separate edition of a work and, as they are ofte

in color printing, the precise aligning of plates or stencils, usually by means of special marks

in typesetting, a tray-like tool used to assemble pieces of metal type into words and lines

Hexachrome is a discontinued six-color printing process designed by Pantone. In addition to custom CMYK inks, Hexachrome uses orange and green inks to expand the color gamut for better color reproduction. It is therefore also known as a CMYKOG process.

thumb|right|250px|A duotone image, made using black and blue in Photoshop Duotone (sometimes also known as Duplex) is a halftone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasting color halftone over another color halftone. This is most often used to bring out middle tones and highlights of an image. Traditionally the superimposed contrasting halftone color is black and the most commonly implemented colors are blue, yellow, brown, and red. There are, however, many varieties of color combinations used.

method of decorating ceramics by transferring an engraved printed design

double-sided printing

type of ink or pigment used in printing

method of relief printing

phenomenon in offset lithography

technical standard

printing technique to overcome registration problems

type of decal

printing process

thumb|320px| {| width="95%" | width="5%" |   ! width="35%" align="center" | Knock-outwithout trapping ! width="35%" align="center" | Knock-outwith trapping ! width="25%" align="center" | Overprinting |} Comparison of a [[Knock-out (printing)|knock-out with and without trapping, and overprinting for perfect and imperfect registration.

publishing and printing operation operated as an artistic or craft-based endeavor

six-color printing process

usually serves as an agreement between customer and printer and as a color reference guide for adjusting the press before the final press run

Camera-ready is a common term used in the commercial printing industry meaning that a document is, from a technical standpoint, ready to "go to press", or be printed.

black ink mixed with other colors for a darker tone

copy prepared for photographing to make a printing plate