Printing equipment

Printing equipment

Printing equipment consists of printers, scanners, copy machines etc. which create copies of hard materials or electronic documents, pictures etc.

Industry: Printing & publishing

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Printing equipment

offset printing

Printing; Printing equipment

Printing method that transfers ink from a plate to a blanket to paper instead of directly from plate to paper.

inkjet printer

Printing; Printing equipment

A printer in which tiny ink droplets are spray electrostatically onto paper.

imposition

Printing; Printing equipment

A layout of pages on mechanicals or flats so they will appear in proper order after press sheets are folded and bound.

reverse

Printing & publishing; Printing equipment

The opposite of what you see. Printing the background of an image. For example; type your name on a piece of paper. The reverse of this would be a black piece of paper with a white name.

rip film

Printing & publishing; Printing equipment

A method of making printing negatives from PostScript files created by desktop publishing.

saddle stitch

Printing & publishing; Printing equipment

Binding a booklet or magazine with staples in the seam where it folds.

scanner

Printing & publishing; Printing equipment

Device used to make color separations, halftones, duo tones and tri tones. Also a device used to scan art, pictures or drawings in desktop publishing.