Glossary
Equipment for feeding and positioning paper sheets in printing presses.
Transparent material made of plastic acetate with a light-sensitive emulsion for recording an image.
A photographic image on film in which the highlights and shadows are reversed.
A black image on a background of clear film.
All operations after printing.
The alignment and registration of individual images or plates within a page.
A method of Letterpress printing from flexible rubber or polymer plates.
Ink that has bright and luminous colour because of the phosphorous chemicals in it.
A white base paper or board coated with a mixture of fluorescent pigments and binders. The coating is activated by ultraviolet light, usually natural light.
Page numbers
A set of letters, numbers and symbols that share a unified design. The design is called a typeface.
A method of printing in full colour by colour separation producing four colour plates for printing in cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
A sheet of paper that has been printed on one side only and then folded twice to form an uncut four-page section.

