A shade of blue which is used in four-color process printing. The C in CMYK. Referred to as process blue as well.

The proportional amounts of process colors used to reproduce a picture, either digitally or when printed on a press.

A board paper of various thicknesses containing a smooth finish as well as used for printing or drawing.

Any portion of a lower case letter which rises above the main body of the letter such as in “d”, “b” and “h”.

Papers prepared to reproduce well in copy machines.

The removing of magenta, cyan, or yellow from a heavily colored image to limit the entire amount of ink being applied to that image to avoid potential production problems.

The guides on the sides of a printing press, which consistently positions the sheet sideways as it is fed through the press.

Amount of 500 sheets of paper.

An occurrence in publishing whereby the tack of ink pulls fibers or coating off the paper surface, giving spots on the printed surface.

A light, low-cost unbleached paper prepared particularly for newspaper printing.