Printer's Puzzle

4. The effect that occurs when a spec of dust or debris (frequently dried ink) adheres to the printing plate and creates a spot or imperfection in the printing.
7. The original physical materials, including photos, graphic images, text and other components needed to produce a printed piece.
8. Any element that extends up to or past the edge of a printed page.
9. Paper that is used in the press set-up process before the printing run actually starts.
13. The most commonly used printing method, where the printed material does not receive ink directly from a printing plate but from an intermediary blanket that receives the ink from the plate and then transfers it to the paper.
14. An image and/or text pre-printed on mailing envelopes in place of a stamp.
16. The correct arrangement of pages that are to be printed, before producing the plates for printing.
17. The combining of two or more different printing projects on the same sheet of paper.

1. A business or department within a printing company that does the cutting, folding, collating, drilling and other finishing operations used on printing projects.
2. A printing press that prints on rolls of paper passed through the press in one continuous piece, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
3. The binding of booklets or other printed materials by stapling the pages on the folded spine.
5. Small printed lines around the edges of a printed piece indicating where it is to be cut out of the sheet.
6. A binding process where the signatures of a book are held together by a flexible adhesive.
10. Product that is wasted due to an issue.
11. To vibrate a stack of finished pages so that they are tightly aligned for final trimming or binding.
12. The rubberized surfaced material secured onto a cylinder onto which the ink is transferred from the plate and then to the paper.
15. A shade of blue used in four-color process printing.