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Stock A term used to refer to all types of paper, transparencies, and other
printable materials. Also called media or substrate.
Streaking Undesirable artifacts caused by linear irregularities in ink or toner
transfer.
Substrate A term used to refer to all types of paper, transparencies, and other
printable materials. Also called media or stock.
Swatch A sample book, usually of available printed colours (such as spot or
Pantone colours).
SWOP Short for Specifications for Web Offset Publications. A set of standards
for offset printing that contains specifications for ink, paper, print
densities, etc.
Tail edge The edge of the paper that is last fed into an offset press.
TIFF Short for tagged image file format. A bitmapped graphic file format that
is widely used.
Tint A tint is a lightened spot or process colour created by printing smaller
halftone dots of the base colour.
Toner Particles used in the electrophotographic print process. They consist of a
resin binder, pigments (for colour), and a charge agent. Toners can be
dry or liquid.
Traditional printing A common term for offset printing.
Trail edge The edge of the paper that is last fed into a printer.
Trapping The slight, intentional overlapping of the edges of print elements to
compensate for minor variations in registration. Used to eliminate white
lines between colours which may otherwise appear while printing.
Trim The cutting of a printed job to the correct finished size.
Turnaround The elapsed time between submission of a print job and receipt of the
final finished product.
UCR Short for Under Colour Removal. A method for replacing equal
combinations of cyan, magenta and yellow with black.
Uncoated Paper in which the printing surface is the paper stock itself.
Undertrapping A condition that occurs on an offset press when less ink transfers to
previously printed ink than to unprinted paper.
Value The darkness or lightness of a hue. One of the three characteristics that
describe colour (along with hue and saturation). Also called lightness.
Variable data Data that changes from page to page in a digital printing operation
(also called variable information). See customisation, personalisation,
versioning.
Variable information Data that changes from page to page in a digital printing operation
(also called variable data). See customisation, personalisation,
versioning.
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