| Question |
Answer |
| Staple |
Attaching or binding printed sheets together using wire staples for flat products |
| Stitch or (wire stitching) |
Sttaching or binding folded printed sheets, known as signatures, together using wire staples. Attachment is on the spine. |
| Legs |
The 2 short lengths of the stitch that are driven down into the spine and crimped together holding the signature together |
| Signature |
Any single press sheet on which multiple pages have been imposed, which when folded and cut, form a group of pages |
| Folio |
A page number, commonly placed on the page |
| Lip (high folio or low folio) |
An allowance made for publications to be bound by saddle stitching: a short overhang on one side of the signature |
| Spine |
In book production, the bound edge of a book, where the pages are held together, commonly to the binding |
| Face |
Printing on the "front side" or top side of a sheet |
| Head |
The top of a book, page or column |
| Tail |
The bottom of a book, page or column |
| Center Spread |
In page layout and printing, the 2 adjacent pages in the center of the signature |
| Creep |
The gradual extension of the inner signatures of a book beyond the edges of the signature that surround them, resulting in the inner signatures having a progressively smaller size |
| On Center |
Centering one object to another, concerning the measuring point to be in the center of the objects |
| 3 Side Trim |
in book printing, the trimming of the head, foot and face to relinquish the fold of the signature and to clean the edges |
| Dummy |
A detailed sample page layout indicating the approximate position and style of the various page elements: text, line cut, photos. A guide for the actual page makeup. |
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