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Print Knowledge
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| To bind using glue to hold signatures to a cover made of binder board covered with fabric, plastic or leather is what? | Case binding (or cloth bind, edition bind, hard bind and hard cover) |
| What is it called when a saddle stitched book gets thick and the inner pages stick out? | Creep |
| What is the variance of stock from the top of the lift to the bottom of the lift after the knife has passed through the lift? | Draw |
| Approximately 1/8" along the spine that is shaved off the gathered signatures before perfect binding is called what? | grind off |
| What is a hinge score? | In perfect binding, when the cover is scored away from the spine so it opens more easily. |
| What is banding? | Method of packaging printed pieces using paper, rubber or fiberglass bands. Also a term used when a vignette has stripes of color instead of a gradient. |
| What does rotary trimming mean? | Round blades of web or folder |
| What is a gusset? | The expandable portion of a bag, file folder or envelope. Or when the inner fold wrinkles due to air not being able to release |
| Why are some signatures perfed on their closed faces when folded? | To let air out so the paper will lay flat and not gusset or burst |
| What is kiss die cutting? | When the top layer of self-adhesive paper is cut, but not the backing layer |
| A bindery trade name for mechanical binding using double loops of wire through a hole is called what? | Wire-O |
| How many perceptibly different colors are in the color spectrum? | Almost 10 million |
| What is a process match? | Creating a PMS color out of CMYK |
| What are the subtractive colors? | Cyan, Magenta and Yellow |
| If you subtract green from white, what color is formed? | Magenta |
| Name the 3 most common, high-quality digital presses within the CGX network. | iGen, Indigo, Nexpress |
| Digital web presses take advantage of what printing technology? | Inkjetting |
| Instead of using grippers or guides like an offset press, how is a sheet guided through a digital press? | The press sheet gets an electric charge that adheres the sheet to a web in the press and the sheet travels along the web (static cling) |
| When you have an estimate for a qty of 1000 and 5000, what technique would you use to find the price for 2500? | Interpolating |
| What does FSC stand for? | Forest Stewardship Council |
| What is CGX's 10% PCW & FSC Certified paper called? | Inspire Earth |
| What does MSDS stand for? | Material Safety Data Sheet |
| Name 3 "green" paper organizations | PEFC, SFI, FSC |
| Name three properties of ink | color, body, length, tack or gloss |
| What is the process that allows millions of metallic colors to be replicated by adding a base of silver (or gold) ink underneath the usual CMYK? | Metal FX |
| What is the main ingredient in ink? | Pigment |
| What is added to varnish to increase its glossiness? | Reducer |
| Is most ink opaque or transparent? | Transparent |
| When checking to make sure aqueous coating has good tack and flow, you are checking for what? | Viscosity |
| What is the basis size of cover stock? | 20 x 26 |
| What is the basis size for C1S and C2S cover stocks? | 24 x 36 |
| What paper basis weight is comparable to 20# writing? | 50# offset, text |
| The weight in pounds in a ream of paper cut to the basic size for its grade is the definition for what? | Basis weight |
| An uncoated stock commonly used for letters and business forms. The surface is designed to accept ink readily and can be erased easily | Bond or Writing |
| Paper coated with chemicals that enable transfer of images from one sheet to another with pressure from writing or typing is what? | Carbonless paper |
| What is distortion of the paper on the press due to waviness caused by absorption of moisture at the edge of the paper called? | Fan-out |
| What is a deckle edge | Feathered edge on specifically made sheets of paper |
| What does GSM stand for? | grams per square meter, or simply a verbal description of what is is and where it's used. |
| What type of paper or board containing unbleached wood pulp (brown in color) made by the sulfate process? | Kraft |
| What type of paper stock absorbs the most ink? | offset or uncoated |
| The first step in the paper making process is what? | Production of pulp. |
| List 3 commonly used line screen values | 133, 150, 175, 200 |
| What are 2 common image file types? | Bitmap, TIFF, JPG, PNG, GIF |
| Used in making type more legible by lowering density of an image, while allowing the image to show through | fogging or screening back |
| There are used for positioning films into register or 2 or more colors in printing | plates. |
| What determines whether a job will run web or sheet-fed? | quantity, size, binding, quality |
| Name 3 different graphics software packages commonly used in prepress | Quark, photosho, illustrator, pagemaker, freehand, indesign, acrobat |
| What is a rule out sheet? | A press sheet with lines drawn to represent the cut and fold areas to check the layout. |
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