PRINTING TERMS

Backs up - Direction side 1 and side 2 match up.
Bleeds - When any part of the art or copy goes off the edge of the finished piece.
Binding - The process in finishing job into a book form.
Bindery work - Any finishing work that would be done to piece after printed. I.e.: Trimming, Folding, Perfing, Scoring, Die cutting, Binding.
Blueline - Proof made from negatives on to blue light sensitive paper, Standard proofing process.
CMYK - Cyan, magenta, yellow and black standard process colors to create color reproductions in any hue.
PMS - (Pantone Matching System) - Spot colors (single colors) Pre-Mixed Ink. Printing specific ink colors to targeted areas.
Color Key - Color proofing system, (which is used with CMYK), each color on separate sheet of mylar. To show color of finished piece.
Matchprints - Color Proofing system, which laminates each color together to show combined color. 90% color accurate. Can not match PMS color on Matchprint although it can come close and show color breaks.
Color Break - Shows which parts of printed piece will be what color. Can be done by separate lasers of a combined laser, marked with highlighter to represent a PMS color.
Coverage (Light, Medium, Heavy) - amount of ink to be printed on sheet, I.e.: Text only would be Light, Some Pictures with type and some screens might be medium, many solids and pictures with type and screens would be Heavy coverage, little to no paper showing.
Close Registration - This refers to where 2 or more colors would touch or over print each other on the same printed piece.
Duotones - Halftones (Pictures) that are done with two different screen angles and with two colors of ink. Commonly used colors are Black with Blue or Brown.
Dummy (layout)- A miniature replica of printing piece showing page placement, How it backs up, Where it folds, Cuts, Scores or perfs.
Die Cut (Scoring and Perfing)- Die needs to be made to specifications of printed piece, used to cut different shaped edges of the printed piece.
Score - places an indent where piece can be folded without cracking paper.
Perfing- Standard or Micro perfing available. Where the sheet is perforated for easier tearing of a section.
Micro perf - is best for anything you would laser print. It's a finer teeth pattern.
Embossing- A die is made to push up parts of the sheet to be raised higher then the rest of the sheet.
Folding - How the finished piece will fold down.
Flat Size - Completed piece size before any folding, or binding is done to it.
Finished Size - Size of Piece after folding or binding, or size to be completed after trimming.
Foot - Refers to the bottom of the printed sheet.
Head - Refers to the top of the printed sheet.
Head to Head - Top of front sheet lines up with the top of back sheet.
Head to Foot - Top of front sheet lines up with the bottom of back sheet.
Halftone - The reproduction of a photograph, through a contact screen, which converts image into dots of various sizes to create tones in a printed black and white photo.
Knockouts - A place in a solid or screened area where the color is cut out so it doesn't print.
Trapping- Adjoining colors by halftone dots to minimize press miss-registration. This assures that the two colors touch, preventing a white edge at the junction of both colors.

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE READY FOR THE PRINTER

1) A complete disk should contain; All fonts for piece, name of the program(s) designed in, all graphics both linked (or) embedded in and graphic file on disk.
2) Laser prints of files with color breaks also showing any recycled logo placement.
3) Dummy showing placement, folding, perfing, score and /or die cutting.