PRINTING TERMS GLOSSARY
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- margin
- The distance from the edge of the paper to the image area occupied by text and graphics.
- masthead
- The list of staff, owners, and subscription information for a periodical.
- mechanical
- In traditional publishing, one or more artboards with type galleys, line art, "for-position-only" photostats, and tissue overlays to indicate color. In electronic publishing, the final camera-ready page with position-only stats keyed to flat art to be stripped in by the printer.
- midtones
- Those parts of an image with colors of intermediate value--that is, in the 25% to 75% value range.
- moirč pattern
- An undesirable pattern in color printing resulting from incorrect screen angles of overprinting halftones.
- monochromatic
- The quality of an image made up of varying tones but with only one color.
- monospacing
- Letterspacing that is the same for all characters regardless of their shape or width.
- montage
- The process of making a composite picture by bringing together into a single composition a number of different pictures or parts of pictures and arranging these to form a blended whole.
- Mylar
- A polyester film product developed by DuPont often used as the base for magnetically coated storage media.
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