Ghosting – Printing Terms Glossary

Known as gloss ghosting as well. A condition happening during the printing process when vapors from drying ink on one side of a press sheet interact chemically with dry ink or blank paper on sheets in contact with or on the reverse side of the same sheet making unintended faint images.

 

Electronic Proof – Printing Terms Glossary

A procedure of generating a prepress proof in which paper is electronically revealed to the color separation negatives and passed through electrically charged pigmented toners, which adhere electrostatically, ensuing in the finished proof.

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.