PRINTING TERMS GLOSSARY
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- facing pages
- Two pages that face each other in a printed publication.
- FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions.
- feathering
- The progressive bleed-off at the soft edge of an image so that it blends with the underlying image or background color.
- finish
- Surface quality of (usually uncoated) paper. Some common finishes include vellum, wove, lustre, antique, laid, and linen.
- flat
- Film negatives arranged (stripped-up) for making printing plates.
- flip
- To rotate an image along a horizontal line.
- flop
- To rotate an image along a vertical line. To turn a negative face down before exposure to a metal plate in order to create a mirror image.
- flush
- Aligned or even with.
- flush left
- Aligned along the left edge or margin.
- flush right
- Aligned along the right edge or margin.
- FM screening
- Frequency-modulated screening. A type of screening that employs irregular clusters of equally sized CMYK pixels to represent continuous-tone images. The placement of these pixels, although seemingly random, is precisely calculated to produce the desired hue and intensity. This process differs from traditional halftoning in which the distance between CMYK dots remains constant while dot size varies to create the desired hue and intensity. Compare AM screening.
- fold marks
- Dotted or dashed lines on camera-ready art that indicate where to fold the printed piece.
- foldout
- Extra page that may be pasted or folded into a book or booklet.
- folio
- A page number or a numbered page.
- font
- A set of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols that share a unified design. The design is called a typeface. A group of related typefaces is a type family.
- format
- The overall appearance of a publication, including page size, paper, binding, length, and page-design elements such as margins, number of columns, treatment of headlines, and so on.
- for position only (FPO)
- A photcopy, photostat, or low-resolution electronic copy of an image or piece of art positioned on the camera-ready page to indicate the position of the actual art to be stripped in by the printer or inserted by the system during prepress processing.
- fountain solution
- A solution of water, gum arabic, and other chemicals used to repel ink from non-printing areas of the lithographic plate.
- four-color process
- The most common full-color printing process which uses color separation to produce one image for each of the four process colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black). Each color is then overprinted to reproduce the full color of the image.
- frame
- An outline between abutting color areas.
- frequency
- Halftone screen resolution. That is, the spacing of the dot matrix in a halftone image, usually expressed as lines per inch (lpi).
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