Blocking – Printing Terms Glossary

When ink or coating causes printed sheets of paper in a pile to stick together, when they are separated that cause a damage. This is usually caused by not enough anti-offset powder or too much ink, and normally ruins the printed task.

 

10-point C1S

Used for Greeting Cards. A bristol stock, gloss coated on the outside and uncoated on the inside.

 

Process printing – Printing Terms Glossary

The system where a color image is classified into different color values (magenta, cyan, black and yellow or CMYK) by the use of filters and screens or digitally with a software program and then transferred to printing plates as well as printed on a printing press, reproducing the original color image.

 

Make-ready – Printing Terms Glossary

Paper that is used in the press set-up process before the printing run actually begins. Or the process of establishing press or bindery equipment to produce a specific product, including setting paper size, image alignment, fold sizes, ink density, etc., In preparation for the actual production run.