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Print Glossary

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Tabled

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

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

1. Concerning a printing project's basic details in regard to its dimensions. A standard layout.

2. A style sheet in a page make up software which applies specific rules to the textual content.

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

Gatefold sheet bound into a publication, often used for a map or chart. Also called gatefold and pullout.

Thumbnails

1. Initial ideas jotted on virtually anything in regard to initial concept of a future project.

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).

Print Glossary

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