Printing & publishing

Printing & publishing

The industry concerned with the preparation and distribution of printed material to the general public.

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kiss impression

Printing & publishing; Paper

Printing performed with only slight pressure. The normal procedure for quality printing.

tint plate

Printing & publishing; Paper

Printing plate with customized surfaces to print solid colors or patterns, stipple line or dot arrangements in tints of inks. Tint blocks are also used to deepen colors in an ...

rotary press

Printing & publishing; Paper

Printing press in which the plate is wrapped around a cylinder. There are two types, direct and indirect. Direct presses print with a plate cylinder and an impression cylinder. ...

backing up

Printing & publishing; Paper

Printing the reverse side of a sheet already printed on one side.

two-up

Printing & publishing; Paper

Printing the same page or group of pages from two sets of plates, thereby producing two impressions of the same matter at one time.

flat color

Printing & publishing; Paper

Printing two or more colors without overlaying color dots (i.e. Without color trap); individual color matching. This differs from process color, which is a blending of four colors ...

quadratone

Printing & publishing; Paper

Printing with four half-tone images at different screen angles using four different colors. Usually the four colors would have a color slant or cast towards a selected tone or ...