There are a lot of industry terms to learn when printing a book and we know it can feel overwhelming. That’s why we’ve created this cheat sheet of words and phrases to help you through the process.
- 1C+1C
- 4C+4C
- Acid Free Paper
- Additive Color
- Adhesive Binding
- Alteration
- Aqueous Coating
- Artwork
- Author's Alterations (AA's)
- Back Up
- Basis Weight
- Bindery
- Blanket
- Bleed
- Blind Folio
- Blind Image
- Blocking
- Blueline Proof
- Board Paper
- Body
- Bond Paper
- Book Block
- Bounce
- Build a Color
- Butt Register
- Buy Out
- C1S
- C2S
- Calendered Paper
- Caliper
- Case Bind
- CMYK
- Collate
- Crossovers
- Deckle Edge
- Density
- DPI
- Dummy
- Embedded Images
- Emboss
- Endsheets
- EPS
- Face
- Flush Binding
- Flush Cut
- Foil Stamp
- Folio
- Foot
- Gloss Lamination
- Graphic Design
- GSM
- Gutter
- Head
- Imposition
- Ink Limit
- Insert
- Justification
- Kraft Paper
- Laid Paper
- Laminated
- Landscape
- Layout
- Loose-leaf Binding
- Matte Lamination
- Mockup
- Moiré
- Mottle
- Offset Powder
- Offset Printing
- Page
- Perfect Bind
- Perfect Binding
- Portrait
- Preflight
- Prepress
- Proof
- Ream
- RGB
- Saddle Stitch
- Seal
- Signature
- Spine
- Text Block
- Tip In
- Trap
- Trim Marks
- Trim Size
- Typo
- Up
- UV Coating
- Variable Data
- Varnish
- Work and Turn
- Writing Paper
- Zip File