Xerox 2000 manual glossary, Stock

glossary

Stock	A term used to refer to all types of paper, transparencies, and other
	printable materials. Also called media or substrate.
Streaking	Undesirable artifacts caused by linear irregularities in ink or toner
	transfer.
Substrate	A term used to refer to all types of paper, transparencies, and other
	printable materials. Also called media or stock.
Swatch	A sample book, usually of available printed colours (such as spot or
	Pantone colours).
SWOP	Short for Specifications for Web Offset Publications. A set of standards
	for offset printing that contains specifications for ink, paper, print
	densities, etc.
Tail edge	The edge of the paper that is last fed into an offset press.
TIFF	Short for tagged image file format. A bitmapped graphic file format that
	is widely used.
Tint	A tint is a lightened spot or process colour created by printing smaller
	halftone dots of the base colour.
Toner	Particles used in the electrophotographic print process. They consist of a
	resin binder, pigments (for colour), and a charge agent. Toners can be
	dry or liquid.
Traditional printing	A common term for offset printing.
Trail edge	The edge of the paper that is last fed into a printer.
Trapping	The slight, intentional overlapping of the edges of print elements to
	compensate for minor variations in registration. Used to eliminate white
	lines between colours which may otherwise appear while printing.
Trim	The cutting of a printed job to the correct finished size.
Turnaround	The elapsed time between submission of a print job and receipt of the
	final finished product.
UCR	Short for Under Colour Removal. A method for replacing equal
	combinations of cyan, magenta and yellow with black.
Uncoated	Paper in which the printing surface is the paper stock itself.
Undertrapping	A condition that occurs on an offset press when less ink transfers to
	previously printed ink than to unprinted paper.
Value	The darkness or lightness of a hue. One of the three characteristics that
	describe colour (along with hue and saturation). Also called lightness.
Variable data	Data that changes from page to page in a digital printing operation
	(also called variable information). See customisation, personalisation,
	versioning.
Variable information	Data that changes from page to page in a digital printing operation
	(also called variable data). See customisation, personalisation,
	versioning.

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