Change in copy or specifications made after production has begun

Images, including special type and photos, prepared for printing

Acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a standard code used to help interface digital equipment

To fasten sheets or signatures and adhere covers with glue, wire, thread, or by other means

Very stiff paper board used to make covers of case bound books

Print shop department or separate business that does the trimming, folding, binding, and other finishing tasks

One of the four process colors (the other three are cyan, magenta, and yellow)

Printing that extends to the edge of a sheet or page after trimming

To enlarge photographically

Prepress, photographic proof where all colors show as blue image on white paper

Paper coated on one side

Paper coated on both sides

Mechanicals, photographs, and art fully prepared to be photographed for platemaking according to the technical requirements of printing

To bind by gluing signatures to a case made of binder's board covered with fabric, plastic, or leather, yielding hard cover books

High-contrast drawings printed on white, glossy paper and made to be cut out and pasted to a mechanical or into repro

Range of gradations in tones between lightest white and darkest black

All written material; also everything that will be printed: art, photographs, graphics, and words

Ownership of creative work by the writer, photographer, or artist who made it

Lines on a mechanical, negative, plate or press sheet showing the corners of a page or finished piece

To eliminate portions of an illustration or photograph so the remainder is more clear, interesting, or able to fit the layout

Lines near the edges of an image showing portions to be eliminated

One of the four process colors; also known as process blue

Sheets that attach the inside pages of a case bound book to its cover

Thin sheet of plastic adhered to printed paper for protection

Technique of printing that uses the four process colors of ink to simulate color photographs or illustrations

To assemble signatures into the proper sequence for binding

General Binding Corporation trade name for plastic comb binding

Characteristic of paper, ink, or varnish that reflects relatively large amounts of light

Space between columns of type where pages meet at the binding

To photograph continuous-tones through a screen to convert the image into dots. The result is also called a halftone and may be either positive or negative and on film or paper

Alternate term for Case bind

Bound with a case of binder's board

International Standard Book Number assigned by the book's publisher using a system administered by the R.R. Bowker Company in New York City

One of the four process colors; also known as process red

Space forming border of a page or sheet

Camera-ready assembly of type, graphics, and other line copy complete with instructions to the printer

Mechanical prepared using a separate overlay for each color to be printed

Printing done in more than one ink color

Characteristic of an image on film or paper in which blacks in the original subject are white or clear and whites are black or opaque. Also, piece of film on which negative image appears

Light blue color that does not record on film, and therefore may be used to write instructions on mechanicals

Alternate term often used for uncoated book paper

The number of pieces that were printed in excess of the quantity specified

Total number of pages, including blanks and printed pages without numbers

Assembly of type with other line copy into page format

To bind sheets by trimming at the spine and gluing them to a paper cover

Process used to make positive paper prints of line copy and halftones

The number of pieces printed

Surface carrying image to be printed; often aluminum

The colors needed for four-color process printing: black, cyan, magenta, and yellow

Test sheet made to reveal errors or flaws, predict results, and record how a printing job is intended to appear

Right-hand page of an open publication

To bind by stapling sheets together where they fold at the spine

Sheets of printed pages which, when folded, become part of a publication

One pattern of sewn binding

Complete and precise descriptions of paper, binding, quantity, and other features of a printing job

Binding edge of a signature or publication

To bind using a spiral of wire or plastic looped through holes

Method of printing on a letter press using thin metallic or pigmented film and die

To glue one edge of a sheet to another sheet or signature

Size of the printed product after last trim is made

Clear liquid applied like ink on press for beauty and protection

Left-hand page of an open publication

One of the four process colors