Fine Print Knowledge Center
The online guide to print and design.
- CSP
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Catalog Service Provider
A company that designs and may also provide the hosting of online catalogs for other companies.
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- CSR
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Customer Service Representative
A CSR is responsible for ensuring that the customer’s needs are being met on behalf of Fine Print, Inc. This is done by managing customer information/specifications and coordinating the creation of final product while meeting or exceeding the expectations of the customer and Fine Print, Inc. with respect to quality, timeliness and cost so that the customer considers Fine Print, Inc. a premier supplier and we can grow as a company in public image and profitability.
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- CSS
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Cascading Style Sheets
Allows far greater control in the physical attributes within HTML. Uniform font types and sizes can be mandated, bypassing user control on altering text size.
This has a great benefit in more tightly controlling what a visitor to your site can physically see, and also allow a site-wide change in font use by changing the css file.
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- CT
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Continuous Tone
An image that has an entire range of black, white, and gray tones, such as a photograph. Continuous tones must be screened to translate the image into dots.
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- CTMP
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Chemi-Thermomechanical Pulp
Pulp produced by refining chemically impregnated, pre-heated woodchips.
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1. Computer-To-Plate (CTPe) – Imaging a plate directly from the computer instead of having to use a film negative to expose the image on the plate.
2. Computer-To-Press (CTPs) – A printing system that sends the image directly from the digital files to the image carrier on a direct imaging press without the use of removable plates.
3. Computer-To-Print (CTPt) – This is a plateless printing process. The computer sends a digital file to a digital printer and the image is printed directly on the paper. Some of the types of processes that use this plateless technology are electrophotography, ink jet, ion or electron deposition, magnetography, thermal transfer, and thermal dye sublimation.
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- CTPe
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Computer-To-Plate
Imaging a plate directly from the computer instead of having to use a film negative to expose the image on the plate.
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- CTPs
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Computer-To-Press
A printing system that sends the image directly from the digital files to the image carrier on a direct imaging press without the use of removable plates.
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- CTPt
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Computer-To-Print
A plateless printing process in which a computer sends a digital file to a digital printer and the image is printed directly on the paper. Some of the types of processes that use this plateless technology are electrophotography, ink jet, ion or electron deposition, magnetography, thermal transfer, and thermal dye sublimation.
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- CU SeeMe
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Developed by Cornell University, this is a videoconferencing application that runs on the Internet.
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Coated Unbleached Kraft
Boards used for food and non-food cartons consisting of a bleached chemical pulp or a mineral-coated top layer or both, an unbleached back and unbleached chemical and/or mechanical pulp middle layers
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- Cupstock
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Plastic-coated board used for paper cup production; suitable for cups for cold or hot beverages and for food and non-food packaging
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- Cure
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Allowing inks, varnishes and other coatings to dry after printing to ensure that they adhere properly and to prevent set-off.
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- Curl
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1. The tendency for paper to be distorted and not lay flat when it encounters large changes in heat and humidity. Curl occurs either as roll set or structural curl. Roll set curl, which occurs across the grain of the sheet, is created as the result of the paper being formed and wrapped around a roll core in a circular production process.
2. In paper, the distortion of a sheet due to differences in structure or coatings from one side to the other, or the absorption of moisture on an offset press. Not lying flat and tending to form into cylindrical or wavy shapes.
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- Cursive
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Used to describe typefaces that resemble written script.
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- Cursor
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A marker, such as an arrow or a blinking line on a display screen, that indicates where in a document you are working.
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- Cursor Keys
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Keys that control the movement of the position indicator on the monitor and are usually designed as arrows.
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- Curved Plate
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In letterpress printing, a plate that is precurved to fit the cylinder of a rotary press.
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- Custom Bookmaking
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- Custom Publishing
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A collection of material gathered specifically for publication to a targeted audience.
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- Customization
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The creation of marketing materials with specific content directed toward a target audience. It allows for variable information processing to output materials that have a message directed toward an audience with specific needs and wants.
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- Customs
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Government agency charged with enforcing the rules passed to protect the country’s import and export revenues.
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- Customs Invoice
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A form requiring all data in a commercial invoice along with a certificate of value and/or a certificate of origin. Required in a few countries.
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- Cut
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- Cut and Paste
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The act of moving blocks of text from one place in a document to another, or to a completely different document. This was originally a manual task, but now it is usually performed electronically within a word processing program, editor, or publishing software.
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- Cut Flush
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A method of trimming a book after the cover has been attached to the pages.
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- Cut Forms
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- Cut Rule
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Steel rule blades designed to cut material being produced on flat-bed die cutting equipment.
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- Cut Size
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Business or writing papers that have been cut to a standard finished size, such as 8-1/2” x 11”, 8-1/2” x 14” and 11” x 17”.
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- Cut to Register
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Indicates that watermark paper has been trimmed so that the watermark will appear in a predetermined location on each sheet.
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