Aqueous finish coating is the strongest and most durable of the inline coatings. You get a printed piece that will last longer and have greater iridescent qualities. As well, since the ink is covered with a coating, no smudging will occur during die cutting or folding. Aqueous coating whitens the stock and will not yellow over time. An important plus is that it’s also environmentally friendly and fully recyclable.
Refers to any illustrations, drawings, photographs, renderings, paintiings, sketches, or copy of any kind excluding text copy that is being prepared or used for reproduction.
Any printed image that extends beyond the trim. It may be solid copy, a screened image, or even a process colour picture. Bleeds for Beaver Folders should be set for 1/8".
A proof that represents the finished product as a blue image on light sensitive paper. It is used to check work before it goes to press. Also called a dylux.
A colour proof of the printed product. Used to check position and colour but is not an exact representation of the final colours. Beaver Folders offers a colour key which is a film based proof.
A high contrast image is made up of highlights and shadows with few gray tones. A low contrast image is mostly gray tones with few highlights or shadows.
Copy is text matter in a raw state that will be typeset or word-processed. Can also be referred to as manuscript. Copy can be submitted in hard copy, or electronic files.
When a press reproduces the dots in a screen or halftone, these dots will print larger than they appear on the original copy or negative. This is due to the spread created when the paper absorbs the ink.
Dots per inch. A measure of the resolution of a printer, scanner or monitor. Refers to the number of dots in a one-inch line. The more dots per inch, the higher the resolution.
Encapsulated PostScript. File format used to transfer PostScript image information from one program to another. Beaver Folders accepts TIFF and EPS image file formats.
All photographs and drawings are continuous tone art. In order to be printed, continuous tones must be rendered as dots of varying sizes. In this way the printing press, which can only print solid colour, is able to simulate shades of gray. This image made up of dots is referred to as a halftone.
Also called the live area. This is where all your type should fall on a printed page. It is important to stay within these boundaries, otherwise the copy may not print, or be in an area where rollers and grippers may smear the ink during printing.
Should be no smaller than 12 point type when using black only and 14 point type when using a colour. Avoid serif type and knocking type out of multiple colours. Even slight misregistration becomes very obvious in such cases.
The number of lines of dots per linear inch (lpi) in a screen, halftone or process separation. For Beaver Folders, line screen of 150 lpi for halftone and tints is used. Also called screen ruling and screen frequency.
Portable Document Format, allows you to pass documents between Acrobat software from computer to computer and operating systems. They are self reliant files that remain intact regardless of the platform they were created on. PDF can be created from PostScript files through Acrobat Distiller.
A thin aluminium sheet with a photosensitive emulsion. The image to be printed is transferred to the plates from negatives or digital files. Then the plates are used on the press to print your product.
Short for Pantone Matching System, the best known and most widely used colour-matching system developed by Pantone. The Pantone colour is a mixture of some specific combination of nine Pantone Basic Colours plus Pantone Black and Pantone Transparent White. Each Pantone colour gets mixed according to formula, and then printed as a spot colour.
A page description programming language designed for high resolution output devices. Most PostScript programs are usually documents designed to be printed and are created by other software packages.
Reproductions are created using four basic colours-Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (CMYK) to create the full spectrum of colours. four pieces of film are used to make four plates for printing.
An output generated prior to printing to show what the printed product will look like. Includes laser printouts (either in black and white or colour), blueline (Dylux), overlay colour proof (Colour Key) or laminated colour proof.
A printed halftone cannot always be used as camera-ready copy. If the screen ruling is too fine, or a halftone from a printed process picture is needed, prepress will have to shoot it again as a halftone. This may produce a slight but unavoidable moire pattern.
Refers to how sharp and clear an image is. Measured in pixels or dots per inch. The higher the resolution the greater the detail in the image, the larger the file and the longer it will take to output the file.
Also called special colour. It is a solid, such as those defined by the Pantone Matching System (PMS), but not a process colour. Spot colour is mostly used for logo creation, headline types, duotone and other graphic elements. See PMS. black plus one spot colour, not CMYK output.
Main body type of a publication, usually referring to type smaller than 14 points. Type over 14 points is usually referred to as “display type” or headline.
Tagged Image File Format. A popular image file format supported by the majority of image-editing programs running on a variety of computer platforms. Beaver Folders accepts TIFF and EPS image file formats.
A very high gloss finish applied to the sheet like a protective varnish. Exposure to ultraviolet light cures the finish to a brilliant shine. Must be applied to an enamel or coated paper. More shiny than varnish, but does not provide the protection of lamination. Tends to fingerprint on large areas of dark ink (wipes away easily).
Available in gloss or matte finish. A clear finish that seals the ink, offering protection against smearing and scuffing. Adds no durability to the product. Matte finish or spot varnish is available for an additional charge.
