Burn

Burn - In plate making, a common term used for a plate exposure.

Bulk

Bulk - The degree of thickness of paper.

Bronzing

Bronzing - Printing with sizing ink, then applying bronze powder while still wet to produce a metallic luster.

Brochure

Brochure - A pamphlet bound in booklet form.

Body

Body - In ink making, a term referring to the viscosity, or consistency ink.

Blanket

Blanket - In offset printing, a rubber surfaced fabric that is clamped around a cylinder, to which the image is transferred from the plate, and from which it is transferred to the paper.

Bit Map

Bit Map - In computer imaging, the electronic representation of a page, indicating the position of every possible spot (0 or 1).

• BMP is a standard Windows image format on DOS and Windows-compatible computers. BMP format supports RGB, Indexed Color, Grayscale, and Bitmap color modes. You can specify either Windows or OS/2® format and a bit depth up to 32 bits per channel for the image. For 4‑bit and 8‑bit images using Windows format, you can also specify RLE compression.

References:

• Adobe Help Resource Center: BMP format

Bimetal Plate

Bimetal Plate - In lithography, a plate used for long runs in which the printing image base is usually copper and the non-printing area is aluminum, stainless steel, or chromium.

Bearers

Bearers - In presses, the flat surface or rings at the ends of cylinders that come in contact with each other during printing and serve as a basis for determining packing thickness.

Backing Up

Backing Up - Printing the reverse side of a sheet already printed on one side.

Backbone

Backbone - The back of a bound book connecting the two covers: also called spine.

Art

Art - All illustration copy used in preparing a job for print.

Analog Color Proof

Analog Color Proof - Off-press color proof made from separation films.

Against the Grain

Against the Grain - Folding or feeding paper at right angles to the grain direction of the paper.

Additive Primaries

Additive Primaries - In color reproduction (RGB) stands for red, green, and blue. When lights of these colors are added together, they produce the sensation of white light.













Resources:

wikipedia: RGB

Accordion Fold

Accordion Fold - In binding, a term used for two or more parallel folds which open like an accordion.

Absorption

Absorption - In paper, the property that causes the paper to take up liquids or vapors in contact with it.

Domain Name

Domain Name - The main part of the URL: http://www.TopQualityDesign.com. When choosing this it’s important to use something short, memorable, and significant to the subject of your site or name of your business.

URL

URL - Uniform Resource Locator (also known as "Universal Resource Locator") - This is the Web page address. The Internet uses this address from which to send and receive information.

XML

XML
eXtensible Markup Language - This is a markup language that allows developers to develop their own markup language.

CSS

CSS
Cascading Style Sheets - Style sheets are directives for browsers to display web pages exactly how the designer would like to display them. They allow for very specific control over the look and feel of a web page.

DOM

DOM
Document Object Model - This is the specification for how the HTML, JavaScript, and CSS will interact to form Dynamic HTML. It defines the methods and objects available for Web Developers to use.

DHTML

DHTML
Dynamic HTML - This is a combination of the Document Object Model (DOM), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript that allows HTML to interact more directly with the readers.

HTML

HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language. Web pages are written in hypertext, this is not because the text moves quickly, but rather because it can interact (a little) with the reader. A book (or a Word document) will always stay the same each time you read it; but hypertext is meant to be easily changed and manipulated so that it could ultimately be dynamic.

Resources:

w3schools.com: HTML Tutorial

Work and Turn

Work and Turn - To print one side of a sheet of paper, then turn it over from left to right and print the second side using the same gripper and plate but opposite side guide.

Dynamic Pages

Dynamic Pages - Pages that are generated from a compilation of sections of documents and/or databases with the use of an advanced language such as PHP

Static Pages

Static Pages - Pages that have a specific Document that they are generated from.

Flash

Flash - A tool for creating interactive and animated websites.

PHP

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

• is a server-side HTML embedded scripting language. It provides web developers with a full suite of tools for building dynamic websites
• is a popular scripting language that can be implemented directly inside HTML. PHP is used for dynamically generated web-pages and is especially powerful in database driven content.

Resources:

PHP.net: What is PHP

w3schools.com: PHP Tutorial

SEO

SEO - Search Engine Optimization - Is the process of using keywords and phrases to increase a web site's rankings and placement in search engines.