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Graphic Communications Terms Glossary
Jog Live Matter
To align the edges of a pile of paper by hitting or shaking against a flat The vital parts or elements of a printed piece which must not be
surface. trimmed off.
Loupe
K A fine lens built into a small stand. Used to inspect type, dotgain,
color, film, proofs, plates and final printed pieces.
K
Abbreviation for black in four-color process printing. M
Key Plate
Negative or plate that prints the most detail (usually black) and to M
which other plates are aligned. The abbreviation for magenta in the four-color process.
Keyline Magenta
A guide to a printing job used before digital desktop publishing. All One of the three subtractive primary colors of process printing. It is
the key elements such as type or illustrations were pasted up on an commonly called “process red.”
artboard to indicate size and position. See also “paste-up.” Makeready
Kilobyte The process of setting up and adjusting a printing press for a
K, Kb or KB. A unit of measuring digital information which equals particular ink, paper and set of printing conditions prior to a press
1024 bytes. run. Also, the paper used during these adjustments.
Kiss Cut Margin
To die cut the top layer but not the backing of self-adhesive paper. The blank space around the edge of the image area of a page.
Kiss Impression Markup Language Encoding
Lightest possible impression that will transfer ink to a substrate. (1) A computer markup language is a means for describing, for an
Knife electronically stored document , the complete positioning, format
In folding machines, the three or four blades at different levels , and style of text and image segment representations within the
and at right angles to each other that force the paper between the document. When combined with textual representation, it is a
folding rollers. The sheet of paper is pushed from one knife folding means for achieving fully formatted text . When combined with
mechanism to the other until the desired number of folds have been relevant image information about document graphics material, it
made. may be a means of archiving fully reversible compression of the
Knock Out document . An example of a markup language is SGML (Standard
To clear an area of absolutely every printing dot; or to outline an Generalized Markup Language) that has been adopted by the United
image and drop out all dots surrounding it. States Government and by many publishers as a pseudostandard.
(2) Markup. Text that is added to the data of a document in order to
L convey information about it.
Master
Lacquer To etch pits (tracks) into the Glass Master (acts like a negative) from
A clear resin/solvent coating, usually glossy, applied to a printed sheet which a CD-ROM “stamper” is made.
for protection or appearance. Mastering/pressing CD-ROMs
Laminate Preparation of compact discs (CDROM) from supplied materials.
To bond a plastic film by heat and pressure to a printed sheet for Mechanical Binding
protection and appearance. Clasping individual sheets together with plastic, small wire, or metal
Lap Register rings. Two examples are three-ring binding and spiral binding.
Register where ink colors overlap slightly. Megabit, Mb
Leading One million bits.
(ledd-ing) The linespace, or white space, between lines of copy, Megabyte, MB
measured in points. One million bytes.
Letterpress Metameric Colors
A method of printing where the wrong-reading raised surface of a Colors that can change their perceived hue depending on the different
printing plate is inked and impressed directly onto the paper. There lighting conditions.
are four types of letterpress presses; platen, flatbed cylinder, rotary Metric System
and belt. A decimal system adopted by most countries for solid, liquid and
Line Copy distance measurements.
High contrast images or type without shading which do not require Midtone
halftone screening. The tonal values of an image that fall midway between the highlight
Lithography and shadow dots.
Method of printing using plates whose image areas attract ink and Misregister
whose non-image areas repel ink. The images are first printed onto a Printed images that are incorrectly positioned, either in reference to
rubber blanket and then offset to paper. each other or to the sheet’s edges.
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