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 term given to paper to give a description its thickness which is relative to its weight.

Any type that leans to the left or backward direction; opposite of italic type.

One of the four process colors of ink, or CMYK. Here the Y is for yellow.

Used to describe how many similar pieces can be printed on a larger sheet; two up, four up, etc.

The stapling of sheets (or signatures) on the side nearest to the spine.

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.