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Trap: Trapping is the practice of overlapping two dissimilar colors that meet flush with each other to avoid gaps in coverage caused by misregistration.
Trim: The processes of cutting the excess paper from the edges of a press sheet. This is automated in production but often done by hand when proofing.
Trim Marks: Marks printed on a press sheet indicating where a piece is to be cut.
Trim Size: the final size of a book after it has been bound and trimmed.
Type Face: A style or design of type. Type Face encompasses shape, weight and proportions that make it distinct from other type faces.
Type Family: All sizes and weights of a basic type design. Members of a type family may vary in weight, width, or other treatment. A family may include roman, italic, extended, boldface, oblique or heavy treatments of a type face, among others. (Also called font family) EX: Helvetica is a type family / Helvetica Bold is a type face.

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CMYK

This is an acronym for the four process color inks used in 4-color printing: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. Although the K commonly stands for black it does not have to. K is for "Key" plate. The Key plate holds the detail for the printed image, in 4-color printing this is usually black ink.