These are usually indicated by dashes lines either in registration or 100% magenta on a top layer. You can use a line in 100% Magenta on a top layer names "THESE LINES (DO NOT PRINT)".
What are fold lines?
100
To set copy into type.
What is compose?
100
This provides the color-reliable/color-true reproduction of the contents of the file intended for printing.
What is a color proof?
100
Color mixing that begins with white and ends with black; as one adds color, the result gets darker and tends to black. When we mix colors using paint, or through the printing process, we are using this color method
What is subtractive color?
100
Those colors achieved by a mixture of two primaries.
What are secondary colors?
200
A term used in printing to describe the ink reaching the very edge of the paper. A "full bleed" is when the ink reaches the edge on all sides of the page. The design of the page has to go beyond the borders so that the printer can trim excess off.
What is a bleed?
200
The thinnest rule that can be printed.
What is a hairline rule?
200
Similar to crop or register marks. These marks show where to trim the printed sheet.
What are trim marks?
200
The subtractive color mode or method used in printing.
What is CMYK?
200
Those colors are achieved by a mixture of primary and secondary hues.
What are tertiary colors?
(Tertiary means third).
300
This is what we call TWO ink colors that are used in the reproduction of an image. These colors are usually black and a Pantone color, but it can be any two colors used together to create a black and white image that normally just used black ink.
What is a duotone?
300
Cross-hair lines or marks on film, plates, and paper that guide strippers, platemakers, pressmen, and bindery personnel in processing a print order from start to finish?
What are register marks
300
This is a piece of spacing material used in typesetting to space paragraphs. They are usually manufactured in strips of 6pt lead. In modern typesetting programs such as Adobe InDesign, these hold printing information, customized color bar information, or displays other instructions and descriptions for other information in the document. Objects (including text frames) positioned in the slug area are printed but will disappear when the document is trimmed to its final page size.
What is a slug?
300
When working on a computer, the colors seen on the screen are created with light using this color method. This method of color mixing begins with black and ends with white; as more color is added, the result is lighter and tends to white.
What is additive color?
300
Those colors located opposite each other on a color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
400
The fitting of two or more images to be in exact alignment with each other or one another. This is very important in the printing process when more than one ink is involved. For example, with a full color printout, there are four separate print plates, each having its own ink (CMYK). Each printing plate has a different coverage area that contributes to the overall image being printed. If printing plates aren’t in proper registration, the image will appear fuzzy or muddy.
What is registration?
400
This describes the simulation of the print result on a monitor. This is the cheapest solution for proofing since no additional equipment, except a monitor, is needed.
What is a soft proff?
400
Use these if you are setting crop marks and want the artwork to contain a bleed or slug area, make sure that you extend the artwork past the crop marks to accommodate the bleed or slug. Also make sure that your media size is large enough to contain the page and any printer’s marks, bleeds, or the slug area. If a document doesn’t fit the media, you can control where items are clipped by using the Page Position option in the Setup area of the Print dialog box.
What are printer marks?
400
What is the name of the additive color method used on screen?
What is RGB?
400
Those colors located close together on a color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
500
The line or lines of text that refer to information identifying a picture or illustration.
What is a caption?
500
This proof is an actual printed sample of a printed product.
What is a hard proof?
500
These add small squares of color representing the CMYK inks and tints of gray (in 10% increments) to a file for printing. Your service provider uses these marks to adjust ink density on the printing press.
What are color bars?
500
Colors at their basic essence; those colors that cannot be created by mixing others.
What are primary colors?
500
These colors are single mixes of ink used in printing. The best known are made by PANTONE.