Glossary beginning with T
Glossary of Print Terms
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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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A specially mixed ink which creates a specific color to be printed on press. Spot color inks are opaque, not translucent like process color inks. Printing with spot colors requires only one plate to print the color versus four when printing with process colors. Adding a spot color to a process job (usually done to ensure the color value of a logo or other standardized color) adds a fifth plate (one each for cyan, magenta, yellow, black and the spot color).