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Stack of books with spiral and comb binding.

Book Design and Printing Printing

Book Printing: Spiral/Coil & Comb Binding

Shiny foil-like red "Merry" on a Christmas card - example of foil-stamping.

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Printing Terminology: Foil-Stamping

Example of embossed (raised) word on fronts of greeting cards; with insides of cards showing debossed (sunken) words.

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Printing Terminology: Embossing and Debossing

Open theatre program with centered staples - example of saddle stitch binding.

Book Design and Printing Printing

Book Printing: Saddle Stitch Binding

Stack of three perfect bound softback books.

Book Design and Printing Printing

Book Printing: Perfect Binding

Covers of two paper sample books with various whites.

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Paper Selection: Brightness, Whiteness, Shades of White

Covers of two paper sample books with various whites.

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Paper Selection: Brightness

Covers of three paper sample booklets with Linen, Laid and Column papers.

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Paper Selection: Finishes / Textures

Hardcover book, closed, laying on the spread-open dustjacket with printed flaps.

Book Design and Printing Printing

Book Printing: Dust Jacket

A stack of 6 hardback books with varied spines.

Book Design and Printing Printing

Book Printing: Hardcover Books

Series of paper samples.

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Paper Selection: Coating

Paper samples with cover weight and text weight in different tints.

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Paper Selection: Weight & Thickness

Array of softcover books and magazines piled over each other.

Book Design and Printing Printing

Book Printing: Softcover Books

Like Blue velvet over image of soft velvet.

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Printing Terminology: Soft Touch Finish

A series of bands of grey moving from light grey to black.

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Printing Terminology: Grayscale

image of pantone matching system swatchbook

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Printing Terminology: Pantone Colors

Image with 4 sections showing cyan, magenta, yellow and black respectively.

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Printing Terminology: 4-Color Process Printing

Image divided into 4 sections showing greyscale, duotone, tritone, quadtone and how they change the look of the image.

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Printing Terminology: Duotones, Tritones, Quadtones

Partial view of a large post card from a restaurant with a personalized greeting and address.

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Printing Terminology: Self-Mailer

An image showing a smooth continuous tone image on the left; the right half of the image is made of dots as in halftones.

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Printing Terminology: Continuous Tone vs Halftone

Pantone color swatches showing shades of pantone reds, purples, blues, greens, yellows and oranges.

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Printing Terminology: Spot Color

Icons for Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Word and zoom

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Printing Terminology: Print-Ready

Series of windows open on computer screen from databases.

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Printing Terminology: Variable Data Printing (VDP)

A digital printing press.

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Printing Terminology: Print on Demand (POD)

Diplay of different print jobs lined up on a sheet.

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Printing Terminology: Gang / Combination Runs

A 4-color printing press in action; example of a Perfecting Press.

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Printing Terminology: Offset Printing

A sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper with three folds.

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Standard Paper Sizes Cost Less

Close-up of printing press.

Six Factors that Affect Print Costs

A digital printing press.

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Print Terminology: Digital Printing

Shows a spellchecking window over a written document.

Guide to Proofreading

Randomly arranged pile of book and magazine covers with spot UV applications.

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Printing Terminology: Spot UV

Printing press device for sequential numbering.

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Printing Terminology: Sequential Numbering

People working at computers preparing files for print.

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Printing Terminology: Pre-press

Surface of a coated printed piece with water droplets on it showing how the piece is protected from getting wet by the flood coat.

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Printing Terminology: Flood Coat

A 4-color printing press in action; example of a Perfecting Press.

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Printing Terminology: Perfecting Press

Two different laminated menus, one multi-page; the other a flat single page.

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Printing Terminology: Lamination

Shows a cut out of a spider-shaped die-cut decal on top of a pile of decals in several shapes.

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Printing Terminology: Die-Cut Decals

Packaging lid with die-cut cut-outs in the shape of leaves.

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Printing Terminology: Die-Cutting

Mock-up of a proofs for print jobs ranging from a business card to a postcard to a business form.

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Printing Terminology: Proofs

Large Adobe PDF icon.

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Printing Terminology: PDF Files

Image of list of files of different file types on a computer.

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Printing Terminology: Common Graphic File Formats

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Printing Terminology: Vector Graphic

Hi-resolution photo of a face next to a low-resolution version of the same face which is shadowy and pixilated. Illustrates resolution.

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Printing Terminology: Resolution

The word pixel next to a large blue circle representing one pixel.

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Printing Terminology: Bitmap & Pixel Images

Laptop with color swatches being compared with digital colors.

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Computers and Color Printing

Pile of brochures and magazines with shiny covers due to aqueous coatings.

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Printing Terminology: Aqueous Coating

Cover of a brochure with a shiny uv coating.

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Printing Terminology: UV Coatings

UV Printing press.

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Printing Terminology: UV Printing