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Make Ready: The steps required to set up a printing press, which include plate and ink adjustment, as well as matching the printing to a customer-approved proof. For short runs, make ready costs represent a significant percentage of the total printing cost.
Register: Printing that is correctly positioned on the page is said to be "in register." Four-color printing is in register, for example, when all four successive colors are aligned, one on top of the other, so that they produce a single image with no color gaps or overlaps.
Sheet-fed Press: Press that prints single sheets, one at a time. We use sheet-fed presses to print book covers and full-color page inserts.
Signature: A large press sheet upon which multiple pages have been printed. This sheet is folded and ultimately cut to form a group of book pages. We produce two different signatures, one that has 16-pages, and one that has 32-pages. For this reason, your book's page count must be divisible by 16.
Text Paper: We use acid free, offset paper for text pages. Our text paper meets the following approximate specifications of opacity (paper density or inability to see through paper), brightness, and pages per inch (paper thickness).
Opacity Brightness PPI
50# white 89% 82% 500
60# white 92% 85% 416
55# natural 91% 68% 360
Web Press: A fast printing press into which paper is fed from a continuous reel (web roll). We use web presses to print text pages.
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