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Printing equipment

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

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Printing equipment

Watermark

Printing & publishing; Printing equipment

A distinctive design created in paper at the time of manufacture that can be easily seen by holding the paper up to a light.

Web press

Printing & publishing; Printing equipment

The name of a type of presses that print from rolls of paper.

Dot

Printing & publishing; Printing equipment

An element of halftones. Using a loupe you will see that printed pictures are made many dots.

Dot gain or spread

Printing & publishing; Printing equipment

A term used to explain the difference in size between the dot on film v paper.

Draw-down

Printing & publishing; Printing equipment

A sample of ink and paper used to evaluate ink colors.

Dummy

Printing & publishing; Printing equipment

A rough layout of a printed piece showing position and finished size.

Duotone

Printing & publishing; Printing equipment

A halftone picture made up of two printed colors.

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