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.
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.
Baseline grid
The baseline grid guarantees that the font lines in a document are at the same height in a layout.
Basic colour
The term basic colour is mostly used in connection with the Pantone Matching System. The Pantone colours – since 2014 a total of 1755 colours – are mixed from 18 PANTONE basic colours in different mixing ratios. The 14 original basic colours had a four colour extension after the abolition of PANTONE GOE. These four new basic colours are PANTONE colours themselves, but are just as well used for mixing other PANTONE colours.
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 BleedBox is one of the five PDF boxes. It describes the part of the PDF, including the content and the bleeding. In printing a bleed of 1 to 3 mm is usually required. A PDF file with an A4 page for printing so usually has a Trimbox of 210×297 mm, the trimmed page format. The BleedBox has with 3mm bleed around the page the size of 216x303mm.
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 is short for Cromatic Adaptation Transform.
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 standardization group that develops various standards for the US printing industry. The standards concern printing, colour conversion and much more.
Chromo board
Chromo board refers to a multi-layer type of cardboard with a coated, usually white front side and an uncoated back side. It is mainly used for packaging printing.
Chromo paper
One-side coated paper with excellent printability.