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.

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.