Printing Terms Glossary
Face
– A bindery term referring to the edge of a bound publication opposite
the spine. Also referred to as foredge.ALSO– an abbreviation for
typeface referring to a family of a general style.
Fake Duotone – A halftone image in one ink color printed over
screen tint of a second ink color. Also called dummy duotone, dougraph,
duplex halftone, false duotone, or flat tint halftone.
Fast
Color Inks – A term referring to inks with colors that retain their
density and resist fading as the product is used and washed.
Feeding Unit – A component of a printing press that moves paper
into the register unit.
Felt Finish – A paper term referring to a soft woven pattern in
text paper.
Felt Side – A paper term referring to the side of the sheet of
paper that was not in contact with the Fourdrinier wire during papermaking,
as compared to wire side.
Fifth Color – An ink color used in addition to the four needed
by four-color process.
Film Laminate – A thin sheet of plastic bonded to a printed product
for protection or increased gloss.
Fine Papers – Papers made specifically for writing or commercial
printing, as compared to coarse papers and industrial papers. Also called
cultural papers and graphic papers.
Fine Screen – A prepress term referring to a screen with ruling
of 150 lines per inch (80 lines per centimeter) or higher.
Finish – (1) Surface characteristics of paper. (2)
General term for trimming, folding, binding and all other post press operations.
Finished Size – The size of a printed product after production
is completed, as compared to flat size. Also called trimmed size.
Fit – A prepress term referring to the ability of film negatives
to be registered during stripping and assembly. Good fit means that all images
register to other film for the same job.
Fixed Costs – Costs that remain the same regardless of how many
pieces are printed. Prepress operations and press make-ready are typical fixed
costs for most printing projects.
Flat Color – (1) Any color created by printing only one
ink, as compared to a color created by printing color builds or four-color
process. Also called block color and spot color. (2)
color that seems weak or lifeless.
Flat Size – Size of a printed product after printing and trimming,
but before folding, as compared to finished size.
Flexography – 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. Abbreviated flexo.
Flood – To print a sheet completely with an ink or varnish. flooding
with ink is also referred to as painting the sheet.
Flush Cover – A bindery term referring to a booklet cover that
is trimmed to the same size as inside pages, as compared to overhang cover.
Also referred to as cut flush.
Flyleaf – A bindery term referring to a sheet or leaf at
the front and back of a casebound book that is the one side of the end paper
not glued to the case.
Fogging Back – A digital prepress term referring to the technique
used in making type more legible by lowering density of an image, while allowing
the image to show through. Also referred to as ghosting an image.
Foil Emboss – A letterpress term referring to foil stamping and
embossing an image. Also called heat stamp.
Foil Stamp – A letterpress term referring to a 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 – A bindery machine dedicated to folding printed materials.
Fold Marks – Markings on printed pres sheets indicating where
a fold is to occur, usually located at the top edges.
Foldout – A bindery term referring to a multi-panel folded sheet
bound into a publication, often used for a map or chart.
Folio – A general printing term referring to the actual page number
in a publication.
Form – A printing term referring to each side of a printed signature.
Format – A general term referring to the size, style, shape, layout
or organization of a layout or printed product.
Form Bond – A paper term referring to lightweight bond paper,
easy to perforate, made for business forms. Also called register bond.
Form Rollers – Rollers on a printing press that come into contact
with the printing plate, bringing it ink or water.
Fountain – A trough or container on a printing press that holds
fluids such as ink, varnish or water. Also called duct.
Fountain Solution – A 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-Color Process Printing – A technique of printing that uses
black, magenta, cyan and yellow to simulate full-color images. Also called
color process printing, full color printing and process printing.
FPO – For Position Only. Refers to inexpensive copies of photos or art used on mechanical to indicate placement and scaling, but not intended for reproduction.
Free Sheet – A paper term referring to a paper made from cooked
wood fibers mixed with chemicals and washed free of impurities, as compared
to groundwood paper. Also called woodfree paper.
French Fold – A bindery term referring to a sheet that is folded
with two right angle folds to form a four page uncut section.
Full-Range Halftone – A halftone image with a tonal density ranging
from 0 percent coverage in its highlights to 100 percent coverage in its shadows.
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