Abrasion resistance
Abrasion resistance refers to the resistance of the ink on a printing substrate to friction.
Lexicon
Absolute colorimetric
“Absolute colorimetric” (also known as colorimetric) is one of four rendering intents in gamut mapping.
Adobe PDF Print Engine
The Adobe PDF Print Engine – APPE – is a software platform of ADOBE, specializing in the processing of PDF files and print rendering. It follows the widespread PostScript Level III print language or CPSI (Configurable PostScript Interpreter).
Altona Test Suite
The Altona Test Suite is a test equipment package for printers and prepress companies. In the current version it includes the Roman16 reference images, different test forms for different applications (technical test forms, visual test forms etc.), reference prints for all test forms, ICC profiles, reference data of all test forms and technical documentation.
Amber
Amber is a high white, uncoated paper made by Arctic Papier.
Anaglyph
An anaglyph picture is a printed or screen displayed 3D image that can be viewed with special anaglyph glasses in 3D. These glasses are equipped with a red and a cyan or blue film before the eyes.
Aniva
Aniva is a highly pigmented printing ink made by Epple, which achieves significantly higher colourfulness in CMYK mode than regular printing inks.
Appearance
In colour science, ‘appearance’ is the perceived colour of an object under different lighting conditions and environments.
Artbox
The Artbox is the smallest box within a PDF file. It covers the area to be used when importing the PDF file into another application. It is comparable to the size specified during the import of an EPS file.
Barcode
Barcodes are machine-readable codes. We are familiar with these codes on goods and books that are read by scanners in POS systems.
Base colour
The term base colour is usually used in connection with the Pantone Matching System. The Pantone colours – 1755 in total since 2014 – are mixed from 18 PANTONE base colours in various mixing ratios.
Baseline grid
The baseline grid guarantees that the font lines in a document are at the same height in a layout.
Bleed
Bleed or the bleed allowance is used in printing and prepress to describe the area that is still being printed but which is outside the actual print and is cut off at the end.
Bleedbox
The bleed box comprises the part of the PDF that includes the content with the bleed. For DIN A4 with 3mm bleed all round, the bleed box is therefore 210×297 plus 6mm, i.e. 216x303mm.
Brightener
Brighteners (also called optical brighteners or OBAs – Optical Brightning Agents) are chemical compounds used in the printing industry to improve the brightness and whiteness of paper. They absorb UV light and emit it as visible blue light, giving the paper a ‘brighter’ and ‘fresher’ white tone. This effect increases the brilliance of printed products, making the paper look whiter and more valuable. Optical brighteners are used in paper production, but brighteners are also used in printing inks to increase contrast and colour intensity, particularly in photo and colour printing. …
bvdm
The German Printing and Media Industries Federation (bvdm) is the central association of the German printing industry.
Calender
Calender is the term used to describe several steel rolls, which are usually heated and between which materials are passed and thus “calendered”, i.e. smoothed, rolled, thinned etc.
Calendered paper
Calendering is also called “satin-finishing” in paper manufacturing. Paper is mechanically smoothed between the calender rolls to produce coated or uncoated paper. Calendering takes place under very high pressure and temperature.
CAT
CAT stands for Cromatic Adaption Transform, the chromatic adaptation.
Chromatic adaptation means that the human eye performs an automated white balance. Colour is thus perceived quite independently of the colour temperature.
CGATS
Committee for Graphic Arts Technologies Standards. A standardisation group that develops various standards for the US printing industry.