Getting Started in the Printing Industry - Common Printing Terms

1. Dew/leakage: The printing paper is mostly white. When printing or making a plate, the color of the connection is not tight, exposing the white background.

2. White: Photo-engraving process in the era of netting. To remedy the darkness of the Internet image, you can remove the original flash one time or put up a piece of paper to make up the exposure, or use the flash light directly to flash the white light to increase the depth of the original web and soften the image.

3. Fighting fat: "Gluttony" of course will be "fat", and there will be more silver grains in the film. Light will also expand the site. Handprinting is even more exposed in the photosensitive film plus transparent thick film.

4. Trapping (Colortrapping): In the process of color separation, the color interface is intended to expand the fat and reduce the impact of overprinting.

5. Field: refers to the area of ​​the color patch that does not have a dot, usually refers to the full version.

6. Contrary to white: Text or lines are printed with a negative pattern, revealing paper white.

7. Impact netting: The color separation process of the amplitude modulation net, the misalignment of the dot angles, or the distance of each dot angle less than 25°, the moiré pattern begins to become apparent.

8. Fly net: the process of hanging the screen of the lens plate, remove the net after normal exposure, supplement the short exposure to increase the contrast.

9. Dog teeth: Dogs' teeth are staggered. Insufficient pixels in the picture will appear as "dog teeth" on the edge after amplification.

10. Rose points: like a flower deer-like texture. Poor calling pattern, worse is the moire.

11. Qi Qi: Directives on the layout, with the prefix as the baseline. Extended to imposition and binding, referring to the head position of the edition.

12. Mask: Masking film for manual color separation. It can be used in film drying or red film cutting. It can be used for retreat or color correction.

13. Reflexive: Refers to a printing method that saves printing plates. After the paper is printed on one side and the paper is reversed, the paper is reversed and the bottom surface is reversed. This is called the bottom reflexive version, and the bottom of the paper is reversed when the bottom surface of the tooth is reversed. It is the same process as the printing plate and the back of the paper.

14. Needle position: The margin position of the print sheet. The paper has a length, and the print registration and cutting require a needle alignment.

15. Stone number: The name of the number of prints in the lithograph era. Embossed paper once called a stone.

16. Used: It does not mean "used goods." Refers to the printer's deputy, or 睇掣.

17. Scripting: Pre-printing a proof for the official printing with a proofer.

18. Bleeding: The color or picture of the printed binding process requires a 3mm cut across the cutting line, called a bleeding.

19. Flashing: "flying", meaning cutting, removing. Flash edge refers to the removal of the bleeding edge, which is a binding term.