Abbreviation of volatile organic material. Petroleum based chemicals applied in some printing inks and coatings whose high vapor pressure allows easy evaporation into the air.

A machine procedure, which produces a very smooth paper surface that is exceptional for printing.

A paper that indicates signs of erasure so that it cannot be altered or tampered with easily.

Any kind of paper that is considered better than grade #1 by its manufacturer.

A process of proof-making whereby the color separations are separately exposed to light sensitive film. Then this film is set in registration with a piece of white paper in the background.

The original weight of 1000 sheets of any given size of paper.

Adjusting the spacing or hyphenation of words as well as characters to fill a given line of text from end to end. Sometimes mentioned to as word spacing.

The side of a piece of paper held by the gripper fingers as it goes through a printing press. Nothing can be published in this area.

The smoother side of a sheet in the paper. The rough side of the paper is The wire side. The difference happens in the papermaking process. The differences are terminated when papers are gloss or matte coated.

Producing materials to be printed using a personal computer, as opposed to taking non-electronic documents to a commercial printing company to be prepared for printing.