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Hong Kong printing terminology

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Hong Kong printing terminology

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White/leak white

Most of the printing paper is white. When printing or plate making, the color of the connection is not close, and the white color is exposed.


White

The photoengraving process in the era of hanging nets. In order to remedy the insufficiency of the darkness of the Internet picture, you can remove the original flash once or put a piece of paper to fill the spot exposure, or use the flash light directly to flash the white light to increase the deep web of the original and soften the image.


Explosive fertilizer

Overeating will of course be fat, and the feeling of light in the film will increase the site. The manual plate is added to the photosensitive film by adding transparent thick film to expose the fat.


Trapping (Colortrapp)

In the color separation plate making process, the color transfer position is intentionally expanded to reduce the influence of overprinting.


Field

Refers to the area of the patch without dots, usually refers to the full version.


Anti-White

The text or lines are printed with the negative lines, revealing the white paper.


Hit the net

Not a fisherman craft. The amplitude modulation network color separation process, the dot angle distribution error, or the distance of each corner is less than 25 °, the moiré begins to be obvious.


Flying net

The screen-making process of the lens plate-making process removes the hanging net after normal exposure, supplementing the short-term exposure to increase the contrast.


Dog teeth

The dog's teeth are staggered. The picture is out of pixels, and the dog's teeth appear on the enlarged edge.


Rose point

Reticulated like a deer. The poor is called the pattern, and the worse is the turtle pattern.


Qitou

The instruction of the layout is prefixed with the prefix. Extended to imposition, binding, refers to the head position as the benchmark.


Spread tail

A type of text typesetting. Only seek the kerning uniform, do not ask for the end of the text.


Mask

Not an Ecstasy. It is a mask for manual color separation. It can be used for filming or red film cutting. It can be used for retreating or repairing colors.


Blue version

It is not basketball, nor RGB B (blue), but C (green) version of CMYK.


Printing


Ghost

Imprints or shadows of unknown origin. Due to the uneven ink supply of the old printing press.


Melon

It does not mean that the melon is a dog. In the era of typography, the "mafia" slogan used a typesetting lead that was lower than the literal one.


Inktrapping

Different ink colors are stacked, and the overprint ratio of each color layer.


Fighting

Learn the secrets of Sun Wukong. The bottom printing car has an automatic paper-turning device, which bites the paper-printing surface and reverses the paper-printing bottom, in one go.


Reflexive

Refers to a printing method that saves plates. Let the paper print one side first. After drying, the paper is reversed left and right and the bottom surface is reversed. It is called the bottom self-reverse version, and the paper tail is reversed when the bottom surface of the tooth is reversed. It is the process of printing the same on the back of the paper.


Flying ink

The speed of the printing press is fast and the ink body is not thick enough, and the centrifugal force causes the ink to splash.


Ink line

Draw a rule line on the plate so that it is printed on the paper gauge, and the needle position can be monitored at a glance.


Floating pollution

The printing plate is not hydrophilic, and it becomes lipophilic. Of course, it is thin and oily. The problem is that the pH of the water is not right.


Cannon

Cannon, drum commonly known. The action of the blanket cylinder leaving the impression cylinder.


Clip gun

Too much paper is sandwiched between the impression cylinder and the blanket cylinder, and the safety induction stops the printer from rotating.


Which slag

The ink should not be printed on the paper, and the problem is also in the balance of ink and water.


Snoring

The printing machine stops rotating, mostly because the paper feed is not smooth or the double feed triggers the safety device.


Needle position

Not the location of the injection. The position of the sheet of the printed sheet. The length of the paper is long, and the printing color and cutting need to be aligned with the needle position.


Even drying

Save the film's continuous printing process. Use the registration cross to move the exposure.


Over the bottom

The terminology of printing accidents. The ink layer is too thick to dry, contaminating the back of the paper pressed on it.


Front (sound)

The Philippines calls the driver the front. The printed front is not the captain, but the number of printing speeds.


Number of stones

The name of the number of prints in the lithography era. The paper is embossed once and is called a stone.


Second hand

Not referring to second-hand goods. Refers to the deputy of the printing press, or 睇掣.


Drafting

Instead of having a hatred with the manuscript, a pre-printed sample of the official printing is pre-printed through the proofing machine.


Feida

It is not a courier, it is a conveyor for feeding paper from a printing press.


Binding


Bleeding

Of course, the knife is bleeding. The printing and binding process requires that the ground color or picture of the page must be 3mm beyond the cutting line, called bleeding.


Flash

Fly, cut, and remove. The flash edge refers to the removal of the bleeding margin, which is the binding term.


Oblique

Deformation, cutting and cutting, right angle to the angle of the book, mostly caused by uneven paper pressure or paper grid is not caused.


Polishing


The sheet is treated with a calender roller and the surface is smooth, which is a surface treatment process.


Backhand

Fold the origami of the Japanese folding machine. The 4th fold of the 32nd edition must be folded.


Genuine

Not referring to software. The book version prefix is called genuine, the second code is called the reverse version, and the front and back versions are called a group, a post or a box.


Paper gate

It is not the door that closes the paper, but the machine that cuts the paper.


Saddle

A method of bookbinding, such as moving across the horse. After the thin book (6 posts or less) is set, it is placed on the iron frame to wear the iron wire nail.


Pig sausage roll

A method of folding a book sticker, the action is like a roll of the intestines, and the 3 sets of the upper shuttle can be folded into 32 versions.


Accordion

A method of folding a book sticker. The book is folded and opened like a screen.


Reverse cover

One way to manually bind the cover is to first seal the bottom edge and glue it to the front, then apply the back cover to the edge of the spine, and then make a "reverse" cover.


Hair book

It is not a book with long hair, which refers to a blank book that has been locked and not cut on the cover.


Taro cloth

A piece of cloth that connects the upper and lower sides of the hardcover spine. It has a firm and beautiful appearance.


Fire mark

A processing action on a hardcover cover such as bronzing and high humidity.


Typesetting


High profile

The picture bit that receives more light is of course brighter and whiter, and the Japanese color separation style likes the high light position without dots to lengthen the picture level.


Low profile

It is not a weak voice, it means that the picture is dark, or dark.


Burst

Not a terrorist incident. Insufficient memory or disk space can cause the computer to die.


Ib

Not referring to weight. It is a measure of font typesetting. The smallest unit of English letters is Point, 1 inch is 72 units.


Level

It does not refer to the class. The optical photo era refers to the size of the text, and the level 4 is 1 mm.


Number

It is not a horn. It refers to the size of the letter in the lead printing era. The maximum special number is 72 lbs and the smallest 8 pt is 5 lbs.


Flat body

It does not mean hair style, but refers to deforming the square shape with a lens to make the word flat, flat 1 is 10% (10%), flat 2 is 2%, flat 3 is 3%, and flat 4 is 40%.


Long body

It does not refer to the body type, but refers to the narrow body. The length 1 is 1% narrow, the length 2 is 2% narrow, the length 3 is 3% narrow, and the length 4 is 4% narrow.


Airbrush

Use a compressed air spray pen to spray with a gas brush. Handmade gradient color method before the DTP era.


Byte

It is not a festival of words, it is a unit Byte of computer machine language, and 8 bits are equal to one byte.

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