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Prepress Applications
File Types
Prepress Actions
Printing in COLOR
100
Type, a graphic, or an illustration reproduced by printing ink around its outline, allowing paper to show through to form the image.
What is a reverse?
100
One of the world's most popular word processing applications.
What is Microsoft Word?
100
This type of file is your standard image file. It is excellent for compressing images, but loses data with every compression.
What is JPEG?
100
Planning this is very much like planning a vacation
What is a workflow?
100
An image printed with two ink colors.
What is a duotone?
200
The technical term for ink spreading out, producing larger halftone dots than intended.
What is dot gain?
200
The page-layout application installed on the instructor PC.
What is Microsoft Publisher?
200
This file, often likened to a briefcase, is the best format for finalizing your print job.
What is PDF/Portable Document Format?
200
This is the name for a hard-copy mock-up given to the customer for approval
What is a proof/mechanical/dummy?
200
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black.
What are Primary Colors?
300
Images and photographs without dots, that must be converted to halftones before printing.
What are continuous-tone images?
300
The industry-standard application for photo editing.
What is Adobe Photoshop?
300
A postscript file that supports both vector and raster art.
What is Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)
300
This printer language turns all of your computer files into something that a printer can output.
What is Postscript?
300
A line of different colored squares that is scanned to determine if the ink color is correct.
What is a color control bar/color bar?
400
The number of spots that a scanner or digital printer can create out of one inch.
What is resolution?
400
This collection of software includes Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop
What is Adobe Creative Suite?
400
A universal file format designed to replace GIF files for fast web transfer
What is a PNG file?
400
Laying a printed piece out on the sheet to be printed, being mindful of maximizing use of space, folding, cutting, and other bindery.
What is imposition?
400
The individual, single-color images that make up a full-color print job
What are color separations?
500
This type of art, also known as bitmap, is made of square pixels, each with an individual color value
What is raster art?
500
This popular program allows for the viewing and editing of PDF files, as well as offers extensive preflight profiles.
What is Adobe Acrobat?
500
An acronym for Tagged Image File Format, this file is our preferred file format for raster art.
What is a TIFF file?
500
capabilities built into Illustration, Photo Editing, Page Layout, or PDF Editing software to enseure that files are ready to print. They include changing line screen, color space, trapping, and embedding fonts for easy printing
What is preflighting?
500
These colors are the primary colors for light, not ink, and will not print correctly unless converted to CMYK
What is RGB?
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