Printing

Question 1

Printing

Define pre-press

Answer 1

The stages needed before actual printing takes place; check artwork, colour separation, quality control & plate or screen production

Question 2

Printing

Define tints

Answer 2

Percentage of the process colours found in the colour bar

Question 3

Printing

Define densitometer

Answer 3

Measures the density of any colour

Question 4

Printing

Define printing plates

Answer 4

Normally made from a flexible material like aluminium for offset lithography and rubber for flexography

Question 5

Printing

Define colour separation

Answer 5

The process through which the original image is separated into 4 colours by a computer program

Question 6

Printing

Define bleed area

Answer 6

3mm extra area at the edge of the printed image. This allows for alight misalignment by the printer when cropping the image

Question 7

Printing

Define DPI

Answer 7

Dots per inch, smaller dots, lots of them when merged together give a better quality image

Question 8

Printing

Define finishing

Answer 8

Any additional process required after the main four colours, embossing, varnishing, die cutting etc

Question 9

Printing

Define print

Answer 9

Process of actually printing the design

Question 10

Define CMYK

Answer 10

C - Cyan
M - Magenta
Y - Yellow
K - Black

*black uses letter ‘K’ because it is the key colour and the letter ‘B’ would get confused with blue