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Pantone Matching System (PMS): Pantone is the brand name of ink colors, and the Pantone Matching System is widely used in the printing industry to identify colors. Color Printing Tips
PDF's (Portable Document Format): PDF is a universal file format that preserves all the fonts, formatting, and graphics of a document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, and navigated by anyone with free Adobe Acrobat Reader software.
In our experience, the most reliable PDF's for printing purposes are PostScript files distilled through Adobe Distiller. If you do not have the Distiller® software, we can work with your PostScript® files with equal success.
PostScript®: Developed by Adobe, this standard page description language is supported by both MAC and PC-compatible platforms. It is a device-independent format, which allows the same PostScript file to be output on different printing devices, including laser printers and our imagesetters. If your material is in a program that we do not accept, we will ask you to convert your files to PostScript code, so that we may output them through our imaging systems. PostScript Instructions for Word and other Windows applications.
Resolution: The sharpness or clarity of a digital image, measured in dots per inch (dpi). The higher the dpi, the better the image detail. Most laser printers have a resolution of 300 dpi. Imagesetters used by professional printer offer resolutions ranging from 1,000 to 3,600 dpi.
Spine Width: To determine a book's spine size, divide the total number of pages by the paper's thickness, measured in "pages per inch" (PPI). Click here for spine sizes matching our paper.
Trapping: An overlapping area where two different colors of ink meet, used to compensate for misregister, thus preventing an unwanted white edge between colors.
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