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Prepress Glossary
From Jacci Howard Bear, About.com Guide
Get a better understanding of prepress procedures for preparing digital files for printing. Take a look at the terminology of prepress, especially as it applies to desktop publishing. Get definitions, examples, and tutorials. This is a subset of the full About.com Desktop Publishing Glossary.
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Get a better understanding of prepress procedures for preparing digital files for printing. Take a look at the terminology of prepress, especially as it applies to desktop publishing. Get definitions, examples, and tutorials. This is a subset of the full About.com Desktop Publishing Glossary.
All the Glossaries: Full Glossary | Layout & Design | Graphics | Printing & Finishing | Software | Type & Fonts | Business | Paper
Bleed
When any image or element on a page touches the edge of the page leaving no margin...
Bleed Allowance
To allow for deviations in cutting the paper when elements bleed off the page...
Camera Ready
prepress term
Center Marks
prepress term
Choke
One way to prevent color gaps during printing...
CMYK
prepress and printing term
Colophon
prepress and printing term
Color Key
prepress - proof
Comp, Composite, Comprehensive
prepress term
Corner Marks (Crop Marks)
prepress term
Creep Allowance
prepress and printing term
Creep
printing term
Crop Marks
prepress term
Crop, Cropping
prepress and printing term
Cyan
prepress and printing term
FPO - For Position Only
A placeholder spot...
Imposition
Putting pages in order for printing...
Keyline
In traditional preparation of color separations, a red keyline on the black line art marked the outline of solid or tint color areas.
Magenta
prepress and printing term
Overprint
Printing layers of ink...
Prepress Proof
An approximation of the final printing...
Preseparated (Color Separations)
prepress term
Proof
What your printed file should look like...
Separations
Where each color of ink goes...
Spread
layout and printing term
Trapping
Dealing with gaps between colors...
Varnish
finishing term