C1S and C2S – Printing Terms Glossary

Acronyms for Coated One Side as well as Coated Two Sides paper stock. There is a cover stock with a glossy finish on one side and uncoated on the other, commonly between 8pt (. 008″) and 18pt (. 018″) in thickness.

 

Zip file – Printing Terms Glossary

Zipping a file compresses one or more files into a smaller archive. It takes up less hard drive space as well as less time to transfer across a network or the internet.

 

Offset printing – Printing Terms Glossary

The printing method that is most commonly used, where the printed material does not receive the ink directly from a printing plate but from an intermediary blanket, which receives the ink from the plate and then transfers it to the paper.