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NOCTI REVIEW
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Viscosity | The measure of fluids re- sistance to flow. it influ- ences the amount of ink is printed. |
| Kiss Impression | The minimum pressure at which proper ink transfer is possible. |
| Gamut | The total range of colors that can be displayed. |
| Analog Device | A computer or other device that uses continuous sig- nals of varying intensities |
| Byte | A single group of bits (most often eight) that are processed as a unit |
| Die | Device for cutting, scor- ing, stamping, embossing or de-bossing. |
| JPEG | File format is a com- pressed format, with some loss of quality during com- pression. |
| Pinholes | Tiny areas that are not cov- ered by ink. |
| Rag Paper | Paper containing a mini- mum of 25% rag or cotton fiber pulp. |
| Under Color Removal (UCR) | reducing the cyan, magen- ta and yellow content in neutral areas of the re- production and replacing them with black ink so the reproduction will appear normal but will use less ink. |
| Fuzz | projecting from the surface of a sheet of paper. |
| Imprinting | To print new copy on a pre- viously printed sheet. Ex. Employee's name on busi- ness cards. |
| Flexography | A printing process that uses a raised surface of flexible rubber or pho- topolymer printing plate mounted on a rotary drum and thin, fast-drying inks to print on almost any roll stock |
| Optical Disk | A high density storage de- vice that uses a laser to burn a pattern of holes into a tellurium film on the disk surface |
| Ink Absorbency | Ability of an ink to pene- trate a substrate surface to a desired level promot- ing adhesion, high density; high gloss and ink lay uni- formity |
| Abort | A computing command that instructs the system to abandon a program or ignore all data transferred after a given point |
| Bleed Tab | Image that is debossed, embossed or stamped, but not printed with ink or foil |
| Digitize | To convert an image or sig- nal into binary form. |
| Drum Scanner | Color separation equip- ment on which the original transparency is wrapped around a hollow, plastic ro- tary cylinder. |
| Fine Paper | Paper made specifically for writing or commercial printing, as opposed to coarse paper and industri- al paper. |
| RGB | Red, Green and Blue pri- RGB mary colors. (used In mon- itors. |
| Browse | To search the internet. |
| Calibrate | To adjust the scale on a measuring equipment |
| Chalking | Improper drying of ink. Pig- ments dust of because the ink absorbed too quickly. |
| CMYK | Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (black). The four process colors |
| Key | Another word for black. |