
glossary
Impressions per hour | The term most commonly used with offset printing for measuring print |
| speed. One impression can consist of multiple images on a large sheet |
| that will be cut into smaller sized sheets after being printed. |
Impressions |
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per minute | The term most commonly used with offset printing for measuring print |
| speed. One impression can consist of multiple images on a large sheet |
| that will be cut into smaller sized sheets after being printed. |
A finishing device, such as a folder or stitcher, that is directly | |
| connected to a digital printer. Paper moves directly from the printer into |
| the finishing device. |
iph | Short for impressions per hour. |
ipm | Short for impressions per minute. |
JPEG | Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group. An industry body that has |
| defined a standard for digital compression of image graphic files. The |
| file size is directly proportional to how much data is discarded. |
Documents stored digitally and then printed in the exact quantity | |
| required at the precise time required. |
Knockout | When printing a shape or type in colour, the shape is printed by |
| eliminating all background colours. This results in a pure colour against |
| the paper. |
L/G | Short for long grain. |
Lamination | A sheet covered with a thin layer of polyester (laminate) to yield a |
| strong and washable surface. |
Lead edge | Feed edge of the paper. |
Leaf | Consists of two pages (front and back of a sheet) in a comb bound or |
| wire bound book. |
LEF | Short for long edge feed. |
Lightfastness | The degree to which a printed page will resist colour changes when |
| exposed to light. |
Lightness | The darkness or lightness of a hue. One of the three characteristics that |
| describe colour (along with hue and saturation). Also called value. |
Lines per inch | A measure of resolution, especially with halftone screens. The number of |
| lines, or rows, of halftone dots per linear inch. See screen frequency. |
Long edge feed | The longest edge of the paper is fed into the printer first. |
Long grain | Paper in which the orientation of fibres is parallel to the long edge of |
| the sheet. For example, in an A4 sheet, the fibres of a long grain sheet |
| are parallel to the 297 mm dimension of the page. |
Lookup table | A reference file used to convert images from one colour space to |
| another, such as converting RGB pixels into CMYK pixels for printing. |
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