Barcode
Barcodes are machine-readable codes. We are familiar with these codes on goods and books that are read by scanners in POS systems.
Lexicon
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.