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Sensitivity guide

Printing & publishing; Paper

A narrow, calibrated continuous tone grey scale with each tone scale numbered.

Colour comp

Printing & publishing; Paper

A mockup of a proposed layout used for presentations.

Wrong-read image

Printing & publishing; Paper

A mirror image such as that appearing on the blanket in offset printing.

Guide marks

Printing & publishing; Paper

A method of using crossline marks on the offset press plate to indicate trim, centering of the sheet, centering of the plate, etc. ; these are sometimes called register marks.

Smyth sewing

Printing & publishing; Paper

A method of fastening side-by-side signatures so that each is linked with thread to its neighbor, as well as saddlesewn through its own centerfold. Smyth-sewn books open flat. The stitching is on the ...

Sidestitch

Printing & publishing; Paper

A method of binding in which the folded signatures or cut sheets are stitched with wire along and through the side, close to the gutter margin. Pages cannot be fully opened to a flat position; also ...

Kerning

Printing & publishing; Paper

A method in composition of changing the spacing between type; brings the type closer together.

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