Jargon buster
Print terminology can be confusing and intimidating. It's one of the reasons you'll always be able to speak to someone over the phone at Bishops to help you.
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Page count
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Total number of pages, including blanks and printed pages without numbers.
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Pagination
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Pagination describes the arrangement and number of pages. For example, cover; 4pp + 24pp.
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Pantone® colours
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Premixed ink colours that are often specified for printing as a spot colour. Can be matched using CMYK but will not be exactly the same colour as its Pantone colour counterpart.
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Perfect binding
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A bookbinding method in which pages are glued rather than sewn to the cover. Used primarily for paperback books.
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Perfecting
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Process of printing both sides of one sheet during a single pass through the press.
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Point
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A measurement for the size of type, distance between lines and thickness of rules. One point equals one seventy-second of an inch (0.3515mm).
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Portrait
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Describes the orientation of a page for normal viewing where the longer side runs from top to bottom.
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Process blue / process red / process yellow / process black:
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Alternate names for the CMYK colours.
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Process colour
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Colour specified in percentages of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Different combinations of the four process colours can be used to create millions of different colours.
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Progressives
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Colour proofs taken at each stage of printing showing each colour printed alone and then superimposed on the preceding colour.
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Proof
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A representation of the finished print produced for customer inspection for errors to be corrected prior to mass printing.