Fine Print Knowledge Center
The online guide to print and design.
- C Print
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Color photographic print made from a negative on Kodak C Print paper.
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- C++
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A programming language that combines standard C programming with object-oriented capabilities.
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- C-fold
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A fold where a three panel piece has both side sections folded inward, one on top of the other. Each section is approximately 1/3 the length of the piece. Also known as a Tri-fold.
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- C1S
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- C2S
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- CA
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Certification Authority
A trusted third-party organization that distributes and maintains public and private digital certificates. The role of the CA is to ensure that the individual given the unique certificate is who they claim to be.
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- Cable Paper
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- Cache Memory
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Hardware device used to store the most frequently accessed modules in the computer’’s memory. It reduces access time by eliminating the rotational delay and seek time with disk drives when searching for the modules.
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- CAD
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Computer Aided Design
A graphics system that allows the user to design and edit complicated line drawings on screen.
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- Cadmium Yellow
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A pigment made from cadmium sulfide and cadmium selenide.
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- Caking
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The collection of ink pigment on plates and rollers which transfers onto the sheet in an uneven distribution of color.
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- Calcium Carbonate
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Used as a filler in alkaline papers, calcium carbonate is found in a variety of natural substances such as chalk, limestone, marble, and oyster shells. A key ingredient in paper coatings, it enhances smoothness, brightness, opacity and ink affinity.
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- Calender Rolls
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A set or stack of horizontal cast-iron rolls at the end of a paper machine. The paper is passed between the rolls to increase the smoothness and gloss of its surface.
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- Calendered Screen Mesh
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One or double sided flattened screen printing mesh in order to reduce the ink volume.It is especially used for UV inks.
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- Calendering
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A process where paper is run between a stack of polished steel rollers which progressively smooth and compact the paper as it moves through the rollers.
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- Calibration Bars
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On a negative, proof, or printed piece, a strip of tones used to check printing quality.
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- Caliper
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Measurement of the thickness of paper, expressed in thousandths of an inch (points or mils). The caliper can also be expressed in pages per inch (ppi), pages per centimeter (ppc) or thousandths of a millimeter (microns). Caliper is also the name of the tool used to measure the thickness.
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- Call
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A request for transfer of the control to another program, subroutine, application, or the operating system.
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- Callout
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1.The callout is intended to tease browsers to want to read the article. It’s usually a sentence or two pulled from the article and upsized.
The magazine’s graphic designer will place it, pleasingly, somewhere on the page to break up copy but mostly, to serve as a tease into the article.
2.Text that identifies separate elements of an illustration. It is usually a few words next to the illustration with a line or an arrow connecting the text to the element being described. It can also be any material such as a “pull quote”, that is called out of the text block
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- CALS
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Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support
A set of national and international standards used in electronic documents and document systems. These standards are specified by the U.S. Department of Defense.
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- Cameo
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A dull coated paper, which is particularly useful in reproducing halftones and engravings.
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- Camera-Ready Art
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Artwork or assembled pages that has all text and graphics in the proper location and is ready to have negatives made for platemaking.
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- Cameron Belt Press
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A type of belt press that both prints and binds a book.
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- Camino
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A free, open source, graphical Web browser based on Mozilla’s Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the Mac OS X family of operating systems.
The browser is developed by the Camino Project, a community organization.
In place of an XUL-based user interface used by most Mozilla-based applications, Camino uses Mac-native Cocoa APIs.
Camino does not include an e-mail client or HTML editor; it concentrates on providing “just the browser” in a lightweight application.
http://www.caminobrowser.org/
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- Canadian Lumber Standard
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- Cancellation Proof
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Final print made once an edition series has been finished to show that the plate has been marred/mutilated by the artist, and will never be used again to make more prints of the edition.
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- Canvas Board
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A paperboard with a surface of simulated canvas, used for painting.
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- Canvas Transfer
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Art reproduction on canvas which is created by a process such as serigraphy, photomechanical, or giclee printing. Some processes can even recreate the texture, brush strokes, and aged appearance of the original work of art.
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- Cap Layer
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- Cap Line
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An imaginary line across the top of capital letters. The distance from the the cap line to the baseline is the cap size.
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