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This glossary includes some of the common terms you may come across when speaking to your designer or printer about your print design project.  Just choose a letter category from above, or a specific term below.

For information on specific paper types you can visit the About Paper page. If any of your questions are not answered here, please don't hesitate to call and ask. 508.667.4503. Thanks for visiting.

Aliasing

Antialiasing

Aqueous Coating

Author's Alterations

Bitmap

Bitmap Image (bmp)

Black Font

Bleed

Blueline Prepress

Bond Paper

Book Paper

Bronzing

Browser

Camera-ready

Clip art

CMYK

Coated Paper

Collateral

Color Separation

Column Gutter

Commercial Printer

Comp

Copy

Copyfitting

Corporate Identity

Cover Paper

Crop marks

Cropping

Crossover

Die

Die cutting

Die-stamping

Digital color proof

Digital printing

Dithered/Dithering

Dot Gain

DPI

Dummy

Duotone

Dylux

em

Embossed Finish

Embossing

EPS

 

 

Facing Pages

Flush Left

Foil

Foil Emboss

Foil Stamping

Font

Four-color process

FPO

FTP

Gang

GIF

Gloss

Gradient

Grain

Grayscale

Greeked Text

Gripper Edge

Gripper Margin

Gutter

Hairline

HTML

Hue

Intaglio

Italic

JPEG

Justify

Kerning

Knockout

Lacquer

Laid Finish

Lamination

Landscape

Layout Proof

Layout

Leading

Letter spacing

Line art

Logo or Logotype

Lower Case

Makeready

Masthead

Matchprint

Matte Finish

Meta-tag

Moiré Patterns

Monospaced Type

Montage

Mouseover

Negative Space

ObliqueType

Offset Paper

Offset printing

Orphan

PDF

Perfect Bind

Pica

Pixel

PMS

PNG

Point

PostScript®

Prepress

Prepress Proof

Process color separation

Process Colors

Production

Proposal/Estimate

Ragged Left

Ragged Right

Ream

Register

Resolution

RGB

RIP

Rivers

Rough

Royalty-Free Photos

Run-around

Saddle Stitch

Sans Serif

Score

Script

Search Engine

Self Cover

Serif

Sheetwise

Side Stitch

Signature

 

Small Caps

Specifications

Spider/Robot

Spine

Spiral Binding

Spoilage

Spot Varnish

Spread

Stamping

Stock

Stroke Weight

Subscript

Superscript

Tabloid-sized page

Text

Text Paper

Thumbnail

TIFF

Tints

Trapping

Trim Marks

Trim Size

Type Alignment

Type Families

Typeface

Upper Case

URL

UV Coating

UV Inks

Varnish

Vector Graphic

Warm Color

Watermark

Web Site

White Space

Widow

Wire-o-binding

Work-and-tumble

Work-and-turn

Wove Paper

x-height

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Basic - $595

  • Custom Logo
  • Business Card
    (includes printing for 500 cards)
  • Stationery*

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Standard - $895

  • Custom Logo
  • Business Card
    (includes printing for 500 cards)
  • Stationery*
  • Brochure
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Deluxe - $1495

  • Logo
  • Business Card
    (includes printing for 500 cards)
  • Stationery*
  • Brochure
    (basic tri-fold or 4-pager)
  • Website**

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Prices do not include printing or third party purchases unless specified.
*Includes design and layout for envelope and letterhead.
**Basic website - up to 10 pages.