Preparation
Camera work, stripping, platemaking, and other activities by a trade camera service or printer before press work begins. Also called prep.
Camera work, stripping, platemaking, and other activities by a trade camera service or printer before press work begins. Also called prep.
Alternate term for Preparation.
To print work in advance to be ready for inserting or imprinting.
Event at which test sheets are examined before production run is authorized to begin.
Proof made on press using the plates, paper, and ink specified for the job.
The number of pieces printed.
One sheet as it comes off the press.
Quantity level at which unit cost of paper or printing drops.
In printing trade, person who owns or manages print shop or runs printing press. In 4-color process printing, one of the separation negatives.
Any process that repeatedly transfers an image from a plate, die, negative, stencil, or electronic memory.
Surface carrying image to be printed.
See Trade customs.
Alternate term for Cyan.
Graphic arts camera used to photograph mechanicals and other camera-ready copy.
The colors needed for 4-color process printing: yellow, magenta, cyan, and black.
Inks in the four process colors.
Alternate term for 4-color process painting.
Alternate term for Magenta.
Person who does pasteup.
Short for Progressive proof.