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IGC-H8 Wire BInding
IGC - H8 Identify stapling & stitching equipment, materials, & supplies
Question | Answer |
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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. |