- Page
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One side of a leaf in a
publication.
- Page Count
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Total number of pages that a
publication has. Also called extent.
- Page Proof
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Proof of type and graphics as they will look on the finished page
complete with elements such as headings, rules and folios.
- Pagination
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1. In the bookwork field, the numbering of
pages.
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2. Generic term for the process of turning Miles
tagged text into style pages.
- Painted Sheet
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Sheet
printed with ink edge to edge, as compared to spot colour. The painted sheet
refers to the final product, not the press sheet, and means that 100 percent
coverage results from bleeds off all four sides.
- Panel
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One page of a brochure, such as one panel of a rack brochure. One panel is
on one side of the paper. A letter-folded sheet has six panels, not three.
- Paper Plate
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A printing plate made of strong and durable
paper in the short run offset arena (cost effective with short runs).
- Paper Requisition Form
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Form used to calculate and subsequently
order the stock for a printed job.
- Parallel Fold
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Method of folding. Two parallel folds to a sheet will produce 6 panels.
- Parent Sheet
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Any sheet larger than 11' x 17' or A3.
- Parliamentary Liaison Office (PLO)
-
The TSO office sited
at Derby Gate, Whitehall who are the initial point of contact with Westminster
clients on day-to-day management of the Westminster contract.
- Parly Stock
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Paper kept in stock by Parliamentary Press and
suitable for a variety of printing jobs. Also called house sheet or floor
sheet.
- Pass for Press
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Principally, the key element of the QA process within the printing industry,
it is the final, approved for press, hard copy version of a print job. This
will have been seen and signed by the client (or his proxy) and returned to the
printer for production to commence. It is then used for the Quality Assurance
checks of content when sheets are delivered from the press.
- PDF
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Portable Document Format. Developed by Adobe PDF is the
open de facto standard for electronic document distribution worldwide. PDF is a
universal file format that preserves all of the fonts, formatting, colours, and
graphics of any source document, regardless of the application and platform
used to create it. PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated,
and printed exactly as intended by anyone with a free Adobe Acrobat Reader. The
Agfa Apogee system used to drive the Galileo Platesetters at the press utilise
PDF as the file format within the workflow.
- PECAS
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Printer's Estimating Costing And Scheduling system used for the generation
of Works Instruction Tickets.
- Perfect Bind
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To bind
sheets that have been ground at the spine and are held to the cover by glue.
Also called adhesive bind, cut-back bind, glue bind, paper bind, patent
bind, perfecting bind, soft bind and soft cover.
See also
Burst
Perfect Bind.
- Perfecting Press
-
Press capable of
printing both sides of the paper during a single pass. Also called duplex
press and perfector.
- Perf Marks
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On a "dummy"
marking where the perforation is to occur.
- Perforating
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Taking place on a press or a binder machine, creating a line of small dotted
wholes for the purpose of tearing-off a part of a printed matter (usually
straight lines, vertical or horizontal). Also called Perfing.
- Personalisation
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The process whereby printed
documents/publications are adapted to include personalised details specific to
individual clients. A key area of digital production within the Oce
Department.
- Petams
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A company specialising in case
binding who we outsource to when products require binding of this nature. Bound
Volumes are an example of products finished this way.
- Pica
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A unit of measure in the printing industry. A pica is approximately
0.166 in. There are 12 points to a pica.
- Picking
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Phenomenon of ink pulling bits of coating or fibre away from the surface of
paper as it travels through the press, thus leaving unprinted spots in the
image area.
- Piling
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A printing problem caused by the
accumulation of paper fibres (called lint), pieces of detached coating
particles or other paper debris on the printing plate or blanket.
- Pilot
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Agfa's PDF workflow suite.
- Pinholing
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Small holes (unwanted) in printed areas because of a
variety of reasons.
- Pin Register
-
Technique of
registering separations, flats and printing plates by using small holes, all of
equal diameter, at the edges of both flats and plates.
- Pixel
-
Short for picture element, a dot made by a computer, scanner or other
digital device. Also called pel.
- Planographic
Printing
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Printing method whose image carriers are level surfaces
with inked areas separated from non-inked areas by chemical means. Planographic
printing includes lithography, offset lithography and spirit duplicating.
- Plate
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Piece of paper, metal, plastic or rubber carrying
an image to be reproduced using a printing press.
- Plate-ready
Film
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Stripped negatives or positives fully prepared for
platemaking.
- Platesetter
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Part of a Computer-to-Plate
system. The Galileos are Platesetters.
- Pleasing Colour
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Colour that the customer considers satisfactory even though it may not
precisely match original samples, scenes or objects.
- PMS
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Obsolete reference to Pantone Matching System. The correct trade name
of the colours in the Pantone Matching System is Pantone colours, not PMS
Colours.
- Point
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1. Regarding paper, a unit of
thickness equating 1/1000 inch.
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2. Regarding type, a unit of
measure equalling 1/12 pica and .013875 inch (.351mm).
- Pony
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Generic term used to describe the perfect-binding line in the finishing
department.
- Portrait
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An art design in which the
height is greater than the width. (Opposite of Landscape.)
- Positive Film
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Film that prevents light from passing through
images, as compared to negative film that allows light to pass through. *Also
called knockout film. *
- Post Bind
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To bind using a
screw and post inserted through a hole in a pile of loose sheets.
- Postscript
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A now out-moded page definition language, used to
electronically store a text page and all its elements.
- Prepress
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1. Generic term used to describe any process which is
carried out on a product prior to it going onto press (litho or digital).
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2. Generic term used to describe the origination department based
around the Miles typesetting system.
- Prepress Proof
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Any colour proof made using ink jet, toner, dyes or overlays, as compared to
a press proof printed using ink. Also called dry proof and off-press
proof.
- Preprint
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To print portions of sheets
that will be used for later over printing.
- Prepping
-
Generic term used to describe the process of electronically imposing pages
for plate production using ScenicSoft Preps software.
- Preps
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Widely used imposition software used extensively by Parliamentary Press
as part of its digital workflow.
- Preps Sheet
-
An
internal document used to list the electronic files, in job order, for
incorporation into a Preps imposition plan.
- Press Check
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Event at which make-ready sheets from the press are examined before
authorizing full production to begin.
- Press Time
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1.
Amount of time that one printing job spends on press, including time required
for make-ready.
-
2. Time of day at which a printing job goes
on press.
- Price Break
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Quantity at which unit cost of
paper or printing drops.
- Print On Demand (PoD)
-
The
process whereby clients can order any TSO publication and have it printed and
posted out to them within 24 hours. This whole operation is carried out in the
Oce Digital Printing Department. A typical day's requirement could range
between 200 and 500 totally individual publications for the same amount of
individual clients. Generically referred to as simply On Demand.
- Printed Paper Office (PPO)
-
Office within the House of
Commons handling the distribution of published material within the House.
- Printer Pairs
-
Usually in the bookwork field, consecutive
pages as they appear on a flat or signature.
- Printer Spreads
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Mechanicals made so they are imposed for printing, as compared to
reader spreads.
- Printing
-
Any process that transfers
to paper or another substrate an image from an original such as a film negative
or positive, electronic memory, stencil, die or plate.
- Printing
Plate
-
Surface carrying an image to be printed. In the litho
process at Parliamentary Press an aluminium-based plate with a light-sensitive
emulsion coating.
- Printing Unit
-
Assembly of
fountain, rollers and cylinders that will print one ink colour. Also called
colour station, deck, ink station, printer, station and tower.
- Private Business
-
Part of the Vote Bundle consisting of an
agenda for non-government or opposition matters. Any MP can apply to table
private business. Printed on Sovereign Wove (within the Order Paper) when
appearing for that day's business and on blue when it is for business on future
dates.
- Process Colour (Inks)
-
The colours used for
four-colour process printing: yellow, magenta, cyan and black.
- Production Run
-
Press run intended to manufacture products as
specified, as compared to make-ready.
- Proof
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Test
sheet made to reveal errors or flaws, predict results on press and record how a
printing job is intended to appear when finished.
- Proof Of Delivery (POD)
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The
recipient-signed despatch note kept with the job bag to enable proof of
delivery to be established in event of query.
- Proofreading
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The process by which a galley proof is compared to the customer's copy
and the style copy for accuracy before being presented to the client.
- Proofreaders Marks
-
BSI standard symbols and abbreviations used
to mark up manuscripts and proofs.
- Proportion Scale
-
Round device used to calculate percent that an original image must be
reduced or enlarged by to yield a specific reproduction size. Also called
percentage wheel, proportion dial, proportion wheel and scaling wheel.
- Public and General Acts (P & Acts)
-
An HMSO
publication containing all the Acts for a parliamentary year published
sequentially in order of Royal Assent within one publication.
- Public Bill List
-
Part of the Vote Bundle consisting of a list
of all Bills currently in progress and what stage they have reached. Appearing
once a week, on a Friday and printing of Sovereign Wove.
- Public
Bill Office (PBO)
-
The office within both Houses of Parliament
dealing with the production of Bills for their relevant House.
- Putting the Tops On
-
Generic term used to define the process of
placing the delivery label on top of a publication prior to it being
shrink-wrapped.