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Ascenders

Printing & publishing; Paper

The tops of lower case letters such as: b, d, h and t.

Kiss pressure

Printing & publishing; Paper

The minimum pressure at which proper ink transfer is possible.

Feeder

Printing & publishing; Paper

The section of a printing press that separates the sheets and feeds them into position for printing.

Longfold

Printing & publishing; Paper

To fold a sheet lengthwise in the direction of the grain.

Halftone negative artwork

Printing & publishing; Paper

The negative film produced when continuous-tone artwork is shot through a halftone screen.

Screen process printing

Printing & publishing; Paper

This printing process uses a screen of fine-mesh silk (thus the common name silk screen printing) taughtly stretched across a frame. A squeegee drawn across the screen forces ink through the open ...

Photolithography

Printing & publishing; Paper

The most common form of lithographic printing in which the image area and the non-image area exist on the same plane (plate), separated by chemical repulsion. To print, the ink is "offset" ...

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