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Glossary of Printing Terms

The Printing Industry is full of unique terms that mean something completely different outside of the print shop. We wanted to take some of the mystery out of the terms that we use every day to help empower our clients. If you can't find what you're looking for below, reach out to us or submit a term you'd like to for us to add.

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  • Tack

    Tack is the adhesive or sticky quality of inks.

  • Terabyte

    Terabyte is a measurement of digital storage. One Terabyte is one trillion bytes.

  • Text Paper

    Text Papers are lightweight printing paper such as those used for newspapers.

  • TIFF

    Tagged Image File Format, a file format for storing images, usually high resolution.

  • Turned Edge

    A product created by wrapping a cloth or paper material around a heavy board stock in order to yield an attractive and durable finished piece. This process is commonly used in making book covers, binders and check presenters as well as high-end packaging.

  • Uncoated

    Uncoated papers have no gloss or matte coatings and feel the most natural.

  • Variable Printing

    Variable Imaging refers to the ability to print different content from one record to the next within one production print run. The process is achieved by using a digital press driven by a database and a library of multiple graphic images that are uniquely key coded to each other.

  • Varnish

    Varnish is a clear, shiny ink used to add gloss to printed piece.

  • Verso

    Verso is the left page of a book. Recto is the right page.

  • Wash Up

    Wash Up refers to the process of cleaning rollers and the ink fountain of a printing press.
  • Wide Format Printing

    Wide Format Printing

    Wide Format is a term used for large flexible Large Format printing used for banners, wall wraps, wallpapers, fabrics, canvas and films.

  • Widow

    In typography, a widow is a word or short line left by itself at the end of a paragraph. It’s best to avoid widows in page layout. For example, this sentence is part of a paragraph that will leave the last word a
    widow.

  • Yellow in CMYK

    Yellow in CMYK

    One of the colors that make up 4-color process or CMYK, Yellow is the lightest of the inks.
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