- Tabled
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Generic term used to refer
to a piece of copy (e.g. amendment or question) which has been handed in for
production to the Table Office.
- Table Office
-
Office
within House of Commons which administers and processes copy prior to print
production.
- Tabloid
-
Using a broadsheet as a measure,
one half of a broadsheet.
- Tag
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1. Grade of dense,
strong paper used for products such as badges and file folders.
-
2. Any generic series of alpha/numeric characters attached to plain ascii
text which dictates that text is to appear/behave in a specific way when rules
are applied to the file.
- Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
-
This is the most commonly used image format for saving and transporting
bitmapped imaged.
- Target Ink Densities
-
Densities of
the four process inks as recommended for various printing processes and grades
of paper.
See also Total Area
Coverage.
- Template
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1. Concerning a printing
project's basic details in regard to its dimensions. A standard layout.
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2. A style sheet in a page make up software which applies
specific rules to the textual content.
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3. The Preps
terminology for an electronic impositon scheme
- Text Paper
-
Designation for printing papers with textured surfaces such as laid or
linen. Some mills also use 'text' to refer to any paper they consider
top-of-the-line, whether or not its surface has a texture.
- Thermography
-
Method of printing using colourless resin powder
that takes on the colour of underlying ink. Also called raised
printing.
- Thin
-
A unit of space in typesetting
which is approximately half an en in width.
- Throw out
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Gatefold sheet bound into a publication, often used for a map or chart.
Also called gatefold and pullout.
- Thumbnails
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1. Initial ideas jotted on virtually anything in regard to initial concept
of a future project.
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2. Generic term used to refer to the
small, imposed page images which are used to proof an imposition from Preps.
- Timetable Motion
-
A Timetable Motion is a motion
that allows or provides for one or more stages of a Bill to be considered or
disposed of either by a fixed date and time or a fixed number of sittings. At
this point in time there are two forms: Guillotine Motions which are Government
led and may not be supported by the Opposition, and Programme Motions which are
agreed in advance between Government and the Opposition Whips.
- Tint
-
Screening or adding white to a solid colour for results
of lightening that specific colour.
- Tip In
-
Usually
in the bookwork field, adding an additional page(s) beyond the normal process
(separate insertion).
- Tone Compression
-
Reduction in
the tonal range from original scene to printed reproduction.
- Total Area Coverage
-
Total of the dot
percentages of the process colours in the final film. Abbreviated for TAC.
Also called density of tone, maximum density, shadow saturation, total dot
density and total ink coverage.
- Touch Plate
-
Plate that accents or prints a colour that four-colour process printing
cannot reproduce well enough or at all. Also called kiss plate.
- Transfer Copy
-
The copy of a Bill used symbolically by
House Officials to show its progress from one House of Parliament to the other.
A Transfer Copy may or may not be amended from the version which arrived in the
House it is now leaving.
- Trap
-
To print one ink over
another or to print a coating, such as varnish, over an ink. The first liquid
traps the second liquid.
See also
Dry
Traps and
Wet
Traps.
- Trapping
-
A means of compensating for
possible misregister at the printing stage. Areas of concern are adjusted to
allow for overlap of colour.
See also
Choke
and
Spread.
- Trim Size
-
The size of the printed material in its
finished stage (e.g., the finished trim size is 297mm x 210mm).