PRINTING TERMS GLOSSARY
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- laid
- Ribbed paper finish, closely resembling handmade paper.
- lay
- The position of print on a sheet of paper.
- layout
- The overall plan or design of a document or document page.
- leader
- A dotted or dashed line used with tab stops.
- leading
- The measurement of the space occupied by a line of text from one baseline to the next. This takes into consideration the size of the text and the space between lines of text.
- leaf
- Page with printing on both sides.
- left-justified
- A paragraph of text in which the left edge is flush and the right edge is ragged. Also called ragged right.
- letterspacing
- Extra space between characters.
- ligature
- In typography, two or more letters merged into one.
- linear fill
- A fill that is projected from one point to another in a straight line.
- line art
- A drawing that contains only black and white with no shades of gray.
- linespacing
- Distance from baseline to baseline.
- lint
- Particles of paper dust which can degrade print quality.
- lithography
- Printing process where image areas and non-image areas are separated chemically.
- lowercase
- Noncapital letters, such as a, b, c, and so on. The name is derived from the practice of placing these letters in the bottom (lower) case of a pair of type cases. Compare uppercase.
- low resolution
- An image or screen in relatively coarse detail. In raster-oriented printing or displays, low resolution has to do with the number of pixels or dots used to reproduce the image. The fewer the pixels, the lower the resolution.
- lpi
- Lines per inch. The unit in which haltone frequency is measured.
- luminance
- The degree of lightness or darkness in colors created by mixing lights. The equivalent value in colors created by mixing pigments.
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