, shadow saturation, total dot density and total ink coverage. Touch Plate Plate that accents or prints a color that four-color process printing cannot reproduce well enough or at all... Format Computer file format used to store images from scanners and video devices. Abbreviated TIFF. Target Ink Densities Densities of the four process inks as recommended... or not its surface has a texture. Thermography Method of printing using colorless resin powder that takes on the color of underlying ink. Also called raised printing. Thumbnails Initial...

V W X Y Z Machine Glazed (MG) Paper holding a high-gloss finish only on one side. Magenta One of the four process colors. Makeready (1) All activities required to prepare a press... of an image, therefore isolating the remaining part. Also called knock out. Master Paper or plastic plate used on a duplicating press. Match Print A form of a four-color-process proofing... pads needing strength. Multicolor Printing Printing in more than one ink color (but not four-color process). Also called polychrome printing. M Weight Weight of 1,000 sheets...

on other surfaces. Also called preseparated art. Separations Usually in the four-color process arena, separate film holding qimages of one specific color per piece of film. Black... tint or halftone. Also called line count, ruling, screen frequency, screen size and screen value. Screen Tint Color created by dots instead of solid ink coverage. Also called Benday... printed item capable of travel in the mailing arena independently. Separated Art Art with elements that print in the base color on one surface and elements that print in other colors...

to edge, as compared to spot color. The painted sheet refers to the final product, not the press sheet, and means that 100 percent coverage results from bleeds off all four sides.... Also called copy, camera and graphic arts camera. A small, simple process camera may be called a stat camera. Process Color (Inks) The colors used for four-color process printing... frame used to expose plates through film. Plate-ready Film Stripped negatives or positives fully prepared for platemaking. Pleasing Color Color that the customer considers...

V W X Y Z K Abbreviation for black in four-color process printing. Hence the 'K' in CMYK. Key (1) The screw that controls ink flow from the ink fountain of a printing press.(2) To... relate loose pieces of copy to their positions on a layout or mechanical using a system of numbers or letters.(3) Alternate term for the color black, as in 'key plate.' Keylines...