Across
- 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.
Down
- 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.