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TSO - Print glossary Category: General technical and industrial > Printing Date & country: 25/11/2007, UK Words: 579

Tabled
Generic term used to refer to a piece of copy (e.g. amendment or question) which has been handed in for production to the Table Office.

Tabloid
Using a broadsheet as a measure, one half of a broadsheet.

Tag
1. Grade of dense, strong paper used for products such as badges and file folders.

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
This is the most commonly used image format for saving and transporting bitmapped imaged.

Target Ink Densities
Densities of the four process inks as recommended for various printing processes and grades of paper.

Template
1. Concerning a printing project's basic details in regard to its dimensions. A standard layout.

Text Paper
Designation for printing papers with textured surfaces such as laid or linen. Some mills also use 'text' to refer to any paper they consider top-of-the-line, whether or not its surface has a texture.

Thermography
Method of printing using colourless resin powder that takes on the colour of underlying ink. Also called raised printing.

Thin
A unit of space in typesetting which is approximately half an en in width.

Thumbnails
2. Generic term used to refer to the small, imposed page images which are used to proof an imposition from Preps.

Timetable Motion
A Timetable Motion is a motion that allows or provides for one or more stages of a Bill to be considered or disposed of either by a fixed date and time or a fixed number of sittings. At this point in time there are two forms: Guillotine Motions which are Government led and may not be supported by the Opposition, and Programme Motions which are agreed in advance between Government and the Opposition Whips.

Tint
Screening or adding white to a solid colour for results of lightening that specific colour.

Tip In
Usually in the bookwork field, adding an additional page(s) beyond the normal process (separate insertion).

Tone Compression
Reduction in the tonal range from original scene to printed reproduction.

Transfer Copy
The copy of a Bill used symbolically by House Officials to show its progress from one House of Parliament to the other. A Transfer Copy may or may not be amended from the version which arrived in the House it is now leaving.

Trap
To print one ink over another or to print a coating, such as varnish, over an ink. The first liquid traps the second liquid.

Trapping
A means of compensating for possible misregister at the printing stage. Areas of concern are adjusted to allow for overlap of colour.

Trim Size
The size of the printed material in its finished stage (e.g., the finished trim size is 297mm x 210mm).

Uncoated Paper
Paper that has not been coated with clay. Also called offset paper.

Undercolour Addition (UCA)
Technique of making colour separations that increases the amount of cyan, magenta or yellow ink in shadow areas.

Undercolour Removal (UCR)
Technique of making colour separations such that the amount of cyan, magenta and yellow ink is reduced in midtone and shadow areas while the amount of black is increased.

Unsharp Masking
Technique of adjusting dot size to make a halftone or separation appear sharper (in better focus) than the original photo or the first proof. Also called edge enhancement and peaking.

Up
Term to indicate multiple copies of one image printed in one impression on a single sheet. 'Two up' or 'three up' means printing the identical piece twice or three times on each sheet.

Upto
Generic term used to refer to Notices of Amendments Given Upto and Included date. A Marshalled list of Commons Amendments produced before the Committee sit to consider a Bill. Printed on blue and part of the Vote Bundle.

UV Coating
Liquid applied to a printed sheet, then bonded and cured with ultraviolet light.

Value
The shade (darkness) or tint (lightness) of a colour. Also called brightness, lightness, shade and tone.

Varnish
Liquid applied as a coating for protection and appearance.

Vellum
Generic term used to refer to the archive copy of an Act of Parliament produced on Calfskin Vellum (Vellum is the name given to calf skin).

Vellum Finish
Somewhat rough, toothy finish.

Vignette
Decorative design or illustration fade to white.

Vignette Halftone
Halftone whose background gradually and smoothly fades away. Also called degrade.

VOC
Abbreviation for volatile organic compounds, petroleum substances used as the vehicles for many printing inks.

Volume
Generic term used to refer to Bound Volumes of both Lords and Commons debates. A Commons Volume will contain two weeks worth of Hansard, a Lords Volume will contain three to four weeks worth.

Vote Bundle
Generic term used to refer to the document containing all papers for a days sitting in the House of Commons Chamber. The Vote Bundle will typically be made up of Order Paper, Non-effective Orders, Vote Sheet, Daily Supps, Given Questions, Given Supps, Private Business and EDMs.

Wash Up
To clean ink and fountain solutions from rollers, fountains, screens, and other press components.

Waste
Unusable paper or paper damage during normal make-ready, printing or binding operations, as compared to spoilage.

Watermark
Translucent logo in paper created during manufacturing by slight embossing from a dandy roll while paper is still approximately 90 percent water.

Web Break
Split of the paper as it travels through a web press, causing operators to rethread the press.

Web Gain
Unacceptable stretching of paper as it passes through the press.

Web Press
Press that prints from rolls of paper, usually cutting it into sheets after printing. Web presses come in many sizes, the most common being mini, half, three quarter (also called 8-pages) and full (also called 16-pages). Also called reel-fed press.

Welsh
Generic term used to describe publications produced overnight for The Welsh Assembly Government. These jobs are produced from PDF files received from TSO in Cardiff via ISDN and are usually produced digitally via the OCE web line.

Westminster
Generic term used to refer to the Houses of Parliament, the clients therein and the contract with them.

Westminster Hall
2. Generic term used to refer to the Business Paper for the Westminster Hall debate.

Wet Proof
Proof made on press using the plates, ink and paper specified for the job. Also called strike off and trial proof.

White Note
The form containing the distribution and delivery details for a printed job received from the buying team.

White Paper
Generic term used to refer to the department managing all inward and outward movement of paper for the printing process.

White-out-Black
The process of having white text on a black background. Also called reverse out.

Widow
Short last line of a paragraph that appears as the first line on a page. *Also called a stump. *

Window
1. In a printed product, a die-cut hole revealing an image on the sheet behind it.

WIPERS
Microsoft Access-based Work-In-Progress report drawn from the data stored in the job control system PECAS.

Wire Side
Side of the paper that rests against The Fourdrinier wire during papermaking, as compared to felt side.

Wiro-Binding
Similar to comb binding but using metal wire instead of plastic.

With the Grain
Parallel to the grain direction of the paper being used, as compared to against the grain.

Woodfree Paper
Made with chemical pulp only. Paper usually classified as calendered or supercalendered.

Work-in-Progress (WIP)
Term used to refer to all work once it has entered the production process until it is complete, delivered, invoiced and paid for. The aim of any business will be to keep down the monetary value of WIP.

Works Instruction Ticket
The paperwork specific to each individual job detailing all aspects of production and delivery.

Wove
Paper manufactured without visible wire marks, usually a fine textured paper.

Wrong Reading
An image that is backwards when compared to the original. Also called flopped and reverse reading.

XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language)
A method of tagging text in order it can be presented on the internet.

Zip
A method of compressing electronic files for faster transportation, particularly via email.

Zip disk
A portable method of transporting zipped files, for use within a zip drive.

A1
ISO paper size 594 x 841mm

A3
ISO paper size 420 x 297mm

A4
ISO paper size 297 x 210mm

A5
ISO paper size 210 x 148mm

A0
ISO paper size 841 x 1189mm

B1
ISO paper size for poster production 707 x 1000mm.

B2
ISO paper size for poster production 500 x 707mm.

B3
ISO paper size for poster production 353 x 500mm.

B4
ISO paper size for poster production 250 x 353mm.

B5
ISO paper size for poster production 176 x 250mm.

B6
ISO paper size for poster production 125 x 176mm.

B0
ISO paper size for poster production 1000 x 1414mm.

C1S and C2S
Abbreviations for coated one side and coated two sides.

C3
ISO envelope size 324 x 458mm.

C4
ISO envelope size 229 x 324mm C5 ISO envelope size 162 x 229mm.

C6
ISO envelope size 114 x 162mm.

M Weight
Weight of 1,000 sheets of paper in any specific size.

X-Terminal
The windows-based workstation in pre-press, running data input and Miles pagination software.