- RA0
-
ISO paper size 860 x
1220mm.
- RA1
-
ISO paper size 610 x 860mm.
- RA2
-
ISO paper size 430 x 610mm.
- RA3
-
ISO paper size 320 x 430mm.
- RA4
-
ISO paper size
215 x 320mm.
- Rag Paper
-
Stationery or other forms of
stock having a strong percentage content of "cotton rags."
- Rainbow Fountain
-
Technique of putting ink colours next to each
other in the same ink fountain and oscillating the ink rollers to make the
colours merge where they touch, producing a rainbow effect.
- Raster Image Processor
-
Device that translates page description
commands into bitmapped information for an output device such as a laser
printer or imagesetter.
- Reader Spread
-
Mechanicals
made in two page spreads as readers would see the pages, as compared to printer
spread.
- Ream
-
500 sheets of paper.
- Recycled Paper
-
New paper made entirely or in part from old
paper.
- Reel
-
A continuous length of paper wound title
onto a central core to feed a continuous web press.
- Reel End
-
The paper left around the core when a reel has been used up.
- Register
-
To place printing properly with regard to the edges
of paper and other printing on the same sheet. Such printing is said to be in
register.
- Register Marks
-
Cross-hair lines on
mechanicals and film that help keep flats, plates, and printing in register.
Also called crossmarks and position marks.
- Relief
Printing
-
Printing method whose image carriers are surfaces with
two levels having inked areas higher than non-inked areas. Relief printing
includes block printing, flexography and letter press.
- Repeatability
-
Ability of a device, such as an imagesetter, to
produce film or plates that yield images in register.
- Resolution
-
Sharpness of an image on film, paper, computer
screen, disc, tape or other medium.
- Resolution Target
-
An image, such as the GATF Star Target, that permits evaluation of
resolution on film, proofs or plates.
- Reverse
-
Type,
graphic or illustration reproduced by printing ink around its outline, thus
allowing the underlying colour or paper to show through and form the image. The
image 'reverses out' of the ink colour. Also called knockout and
liftout.
- Reverse Imposition
-
An imposition
scheme where pages are in the reverse position to where they would be in a
regular imposition, effectively resulting in a folded section with the last
page where the first page would be expected to be. Used primarily in the
production of matter for loose leaf matter for a ring binder, which has to be
drilled.
- RGB
-
Abbreviation for Red, Green, Blue, the
additive colour primaries.
- Ribboned Copy
-
The copy of
a bill produced for presentational purposes in both Houses of Parliament which
is bound by a ribbon through three drilled holes.
- Rich Black
-
Rich black is colour made up of 100%K and 60%C. It is designed to give
good coverage to solid areas of black and to "lift" the flatness from a process
black.
See also
Shiner.
- Right Reading
-
1. Copy that reads correctly in the
language in which it is written.
-
2. A photo whose orientation
looks like the original scene, as compared to a flopped image.
- Roll-fold
-
A method used to fold a sheet into 3 along its long
edge. A method used by Parliamentary Press to produce 6pp pamphlets or a 6pp
side-stitch publication.
- Rotary Press
-
Printing press
which passes the substrate between two rotating cylinders when making an
impression.
- Round Back Bind
-
To casebind with a
rounded (convex) spine, as compared to flat back bind.
- Royal
Assent (RA) Proof
-
The version of a Bill as presented to the Lords
in its final version which is given approval by the monarch and then becomes an
Act of Parliament.
- Rule
-
Line used as a graphic
element to separate or organize copy.
- Rule-up
-
Map or
drawing given by a printer to a stripper showing how a printing job must be
imposed using a specific press and sheet size. Also called press layout,
printer's layout and rule-out.