- Face
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1. Edge of a bound publication
opposite the spine. Also called foredge.
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2. An
abbreviation for typeface referring to a family of a general style.
- Fake Duotone
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Halftone in one ink colour printed over screen
tint of a second ink colour. Also called dummy duotone, duograph, duplex
halftone, false duotone, flat tint halftone and halftone with screen and
sometimes a colorized tiff.
- Fast Colour Inks
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Inks with colours that retain their density and resist fading as the product
is used and washed.
- Feeding the Boxes
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The process whereby an individual feeds folded sections into the boxes
(or hoppers) of a finishing line for binding.
- Feeding Unit
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Component of a printing press that moves paper into the register
unit.
- Felt Finish
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Soft woven pattern in text
paper.
- Felt Side
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Side of the paper that was not in
contact with the Fourdrinier wire during papermaking, as compared to wire
side.
- Fifth Colour
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Ink colour used in addition to
the four needed by four-colour process.
- File Copy(ies)
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1. The copy(ies) of a publication which are retained within the Planning
Office for future reference.
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2. The copy(ies) of a
publication sent directly to a buyer or customer which have been studiously
checked for all QA matters, i.e. perfect copies.
- Fine Screen
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Screen with ruling of 150 lines per inch (80 lines per centimetre) or
more.
- Finish
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1. Surface characteristics of
paper.
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2. General term for trimming, folding, binding and all
other post-press operations.
- Finished Size
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Size of
product after production is completed, as compared to flat size. Also
called trimmed size.
- Fit
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Refers to ability of
film to be registered during stripping and assembly. Good fit means that all
images register to other film for the same job.
- Fixed Costs
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Costs that remain the same regardless of how many pieces are printed.
Copyrighting, photography and design are fixed costs.
- Flat Back
Binding
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Perfect- or thread-sewn binding whereby the back of the
back is square (as opposed to bowed) once the cover has been drawn on.
- Flat Colour
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1. Any colour created by printing only one
ink, as compared to a colour created by printing four-colour process. Also
called block colour and spot colour.
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2. Colour that
seems weak or lifeless.
- Flat Plan (Flats)
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Diagram
of the flats for a publication showing imposition and indicating colours.
- Flat Size
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Size of product after printing and trimming,
but before folding, as compared to finished size.
- Flexography
(Flexo)
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Method of printing on a web press using rubber or plastic
plates with raised images. Also called aniline printing because
flexographic inks originally used aniline dyes.
- Flood
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To print a sheet completely with an ink or varnish. Also called
painting the sheet.
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To populate a department with all
available staff in order to clear a bottle-neck in the production process.
- Flush Cover
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Cover trimmed to the same size as inside
pages, as compared to overhang cover. Also called cut flush.
- Flyleaf
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Leaf, at the front and back of a casebound book that
is the one side of the end paper not glued to the case.
- FM Unit
(Facilities Management)
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The TSO-managed data input unit within the
House of Commons producing the Vote Bundle origination.
- Foil
Emboss
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To foil stamp and emboss an image. Also called heat
stamp.
- Foil Stamp
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Method of printing that
releases foil from its backing when stamped with the heated die. Also
called block print, hot foil stamp and stamp.
- Folder
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A bindery machine dedicated to folding printed materials.
- Fold Marks
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With printed matter, markings indicating where a
fold is to occur, usually located at the top edges.
- Folio (page
number)
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The actual page number in a publication.
- Foredge
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The outermost (furthest from the spine) margin of a
page. The foredge is where a book will be gripped by the reader.
- Forme
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Each side of a signature.
- Format
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Size, style, shape, layout or organization of a layout or printed product.
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In the Miles typesetting system an identified, grouped
series of codes which produce a desired effect of style, enabling many
operators to work on one job.
- Form bond
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Lightweight
bond, easy to perforate, made for business forms. *Also called register bond.
*
- Form Roller(s)
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Roller(s) that come in contact with
the printing plate, bringing it ink or water.
- For Position Only
(FPO)
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Refers to inexpensive copies of photos or art used on
mechanical to indicate placement and scaling, but not intended for
reproduction.
- Forwarding
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In the case bookwork field,
the binding process which involves folding, rounding, backing, headbanding and
reinforcing.
- Fountain
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Trough or container, on a
printing press, that holds fluids such as ink, varnish or water. Also
called duct.
- Fountain Solution
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Mixture of water
and chemicals that dampens a printing plate to prevent ink from adhering to the
non-image area. Also called dampener solution.
- Four-colour Process Printing
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Technique of printing that uses
black, magenta, cyan and yellow to simulate full-colour images. Also called
colour process printing, full colour printing and process printing.
- Free Sheet
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Paper made from cooked wood fibres mixed with
chemicals and washed free of impurities, as compared to groundwood paper.
Also called woodfree paper.
- French Fold
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A
printed sheet, printed one side only, folded with two right angle folds to form
a four page uncut section.
- Full-range Halftone
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Halftone ranging from 0 percent coverage in its highlights to 100 percent
coverage in its shadows.
- Full-scale Black
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Black
separation made to have dots throughout the entire tonal range of the image, as
compared to half-scale black and skeleton black. Also called full-range
black.