Fine Print Knowledge Center
The online guide to print and design.
- Content Search
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A system’’s capability to search through text and find a matching group of characters.
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- Contents
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The list of a book’s chapters or a magazine’s features and departments that appears as part of the front matter.
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- Continuous Code
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A bar code structure that does not have any inter-character breaks.
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- Continuous Envelopes
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Envelopes provided in continuous form so that they can be imprinted on a continuous fed printer. The envelopes are affixed to a continuous carrier or are manufactured as a continuous form with a patch applied to create a pocket.
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- Continuous Forms
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A series of connected forms with holes punched on the left and right sides that allows the paper to be fed continuously through a pinfed printing device. There is a perforation between forms to allow the user to tear them apart. The forms are fanfolded into a stack, at the perforation, when they are manufactured.
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- Continuous Forms Stacker
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The device that refolds and stacks the continuous forms after running through the printing unit.
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- Continuous Label
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Labels that are attached in a continuous stream with a folding perf placed in even increments apart. They are folded in a fanfolded manner to form a stack. They have pinfeed holes at the left and right for the purpose of feeding the labels through a continuous printer.
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- Continuous Mailer
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A product that is manufactured as a continuous form, most often consisting of an outside envelope and internal sheets that are first printed and then collated together. This forms a complete set of materials ready to be addressed and imprinted on impact printers.
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- Continuous Pulping
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Production of pulp in continuous digester as compared to a batch digester.
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- Continuous Tone Digital Proofing
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A proof produced with reliable color directly from a digital file without a halftone pattern. It is generally created by an inkjet or dye sublimination process without producing a set of film separations.
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- Contract
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A legal, binding document signed by the client and Fine Print, Inc. which declares and defines the services to be purchased and provided along with the obligations each party has to one another under the terms and conditions as set forth within the contract, exhibits, riders(s) if required, and pricing attachments.
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- Contract Carrier
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Any person not a common carrier who, under special and individual contracts or agreements, transports passengers or property for compensation.
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- Contrast
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1. The difference between the lightest and darkest areas of an image. High contrasts would be black on yellow and black on white.
2. The difference of tonal gradation between light and dark values within an image. A high-contrast image is predominantly highlights and shadows with few gray tones. A low-contrast image has few highlights and shadows with predominantly even tones. Image contrast is sacrificed somewhat when tones are compressed to bring an original’’s density down to a range that can be reproduced on a printing press.
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- Contre Jour
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Taking a picture with the camera lens facing the light source.
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- Contributing Editor
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An editor or writer who contributes to a magazine’s efforts but is not on staff.
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- Convenient Carton
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A term used when it is acceptable for a machine operator to determine the appropriate quantity of finished product to be packed per carton without using filler, maintaining a snug fit in the carton without exceeding thirty-five pounds per carton.
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- Converting
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The processing of paper to change its physical form (as opposed to merely printing on it).
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- Converting Paper
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The processing of paper to produce another paper product, such as envelopes and cartons.
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- Cookies
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A piece of information sent by a Web server to a Web browser that the browser software is expected to save and send back to the server whenever it is requested. You can set your browser to accept or not accept cookies. They contain information that either you entered through electronic forms or by recording your activities. They also remember “shopping cart” information and your user preferences. Cookies do not read your hard drive but they can be used to gather more information about you than would be possible without them.
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- Cooking
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Reacting fibrous raw material with chemical under pressure and temperature to soften and or remove lignin to separate fibers.
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- Copy
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1. To a graphic designer or a printer, it is all the elements that are to be printed, such as text, rules, graphics and photographs. To a typesetter or editor it is the text.
2. A duplicate of an original.
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- Copy Dot
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The digitizing of film by scanning each color as a bitmap.
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- Copy Editor
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A person who checks copy for spelling, punctuation, grammar and inaccurate information. They also check that the style conforms to what has been requested.
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- Copy Fitting
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Adjusting type size and spacing to get copy to fit into a certain amount of space.
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- Copy Paper
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- Copy Supervisor
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Oversees proper copy editing and proofreading and acts as liaison between copy editors and printer. Usually reports to the Managing Editor and may have supervisory status.
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- Copyright
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1. The exclusive right given to an individual or organization to publish, reproduce, and distribute the contents of a literary or artistic work for a specified number of years.
2. Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U. S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship” – including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.
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- Copyright Infringement
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The unauthorized use of material that is protected by intellectual property rights law particularly the copyright in a manner that violates one of the original copyright owner’s exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it.
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- Core
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A hollow cylindrical object that paper, film or labels are wound around to form a roll. They are made of thick sturdy cardboard or metal. The thickness of its walls will vary according to the type and amount of product that will be wound on it. The size of the core opening will depend on the requirements of the equipment it will be used on.
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- Coreboard
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Board produced from recovered papers, sometimes combined with a small proportion of primary wood pulp; used to produce paper cores
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