Fine Print Knowledge Center
The online guide to print and design.
- Foreign Rights
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A subsidiary right that allows the book to be translated and published in countries other than the one in which the book was originally published.
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- Forest
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A plant community dominated by trees and other woody plants.
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- Forest Management
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The practical application of biological, physical, quantitive, managerial, economic, social and policy principles to regeneration, management, utilization and conservation of forests to meet specified goals and objectives while maintaining the productivity of the forest.
Forest management includes management for aesthetics, fish, recreation, urban value, water, wildlife and wood products.
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- Forest Stewardship Council
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FSC
The Forest Stewardship Council is an international not-for-profit organization that develops standards and certifies that wood harvesting and/or post consumer waste collection is done within their environmentally conscious standards from responsibly managed forests.
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- Forestry
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The profession embracing the science, art and practice of creating, managing, using and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner for human benefit.
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- Foreword
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Introductory remarks found in the front matter of a book, often written by someone other than the author.
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- Form
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1. A printed or typed document with various fields in which information can be inserted.
2. Text fields on Web pages that can be filled in and provide interactive query and response for users requesting information or wishing to supply feedback.
3. The assembly of pages and other images for a single plate on a press. When printed and folded, the form is called a signature.
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- Form Letter
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Used in word processing to describe a repetitive letter in which the names and addresses of individuals are automatically generated from a data base or typed individually.
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- Form Rollers
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The rollers that come into direct contact with the plate of a printing press.
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- Format
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1. The layout, style, size, margins and other aspects of the way the artwork for a printed product.
2. To prepare a disk so that it can accept computer generated information.
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- Formation
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The physical characteristics of the paper, which are determined by the structure and orientation of the fibers developed during the paper formation process when the paper is being made.
The paper’’s runnability, strength, and consistency in thickness throughout the sheet are affected by the uniformity of the distribution of fibers during the formation process. The squareness of the sheet is also determined during the formation process.
The squareness is affected by the grain direction ratio of the paper, which is the ratio of fibers that line up in the machine direction in comparison to the cross direction. A better refined formation process results in more uniform and smooth paper.
Desired end results and large variations in paper formation can be controlled by today’’s advanced formation technologies.
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- Forme
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In printing, one side of assembled pages or other images for printing. In die-cutting, the wooden board in which the cutting, creasing and perforating rules are mounted.
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- Forms Bond
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Lightweight bond paper manufactured for the printing of business forms, also referred to as register bond.
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- Forms Data
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The lines, text, graphics, and logos that are all part of the form’’s design and because of this, are the same on every page.
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- Forms Description Language
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FDL
A keyword oriented language that describes the appearance of forms including lines, boxes, text, etc.
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- Forms Input
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The act of filling in a form with the use of a computer, by automatically moving from field-to-field by tabbing or the use of the return (enter) key.
The fields are defined for a specific type of entry on some systems, such as all alphabetic or all numeric, and incorrect entries are not accepted.
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- Forms Source Language
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FSL
FDL source statements that are used in defining a form.
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- Formula Pricing
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Printing prices based on standard papers, formats, ink colors, and quantities.
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- Fortune 500
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The Fortune 500 is a ranking of the top 500 American public corporations as measured by gross revenue, although eligible companies are any for which revenues are publicly available (which is a larger universe than “public companies,” as the term is commonly understood, meaning “companies having common stock that trades on a stock exchange”). Fortune magazine compiles and publishes the list annually.
Fortune 100 is a frequently used term used to reference the top 100 firms in this same list, and Fortune 1000 refers to the top 1000 firms ranked according to the same methodology.
The Fortune 500 should not be confused with the S&P 500, which is a stock market index.
All numbers are based on revenue figures for each company’s previous fiscal year, which may end on different dates for each company.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/
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- Fortune Global 500
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The Fortune Global 500 is a ranking of the top 500 corporations as measured by revenue. The list is compiled and published annually by Fortune magazine.
It differs from the Fortune 500 in that the latter only lists the top US corporations.
Only countries with five Global 500 companies or more are listed.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2006/
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- Forwarding
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In the case book arena, the binding process which involves folding, rounding, backing, headbanding and reinforcing.
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- Fossil Fuels
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Caron-based fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas formed from remnants of ancient plant and animal life. Fossil fuels are limited natural resources.
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- Fountain
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The unit on a press that contains ink to be fed to the distributing system, and the part that feeds the fountain solution to the dampening system.
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- Fountain Roll
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Roll that picks up the ink or coating material from the fountain and applies it to the transfer roll.
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- Fountain Solution
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In lithography, a solution of water, a natural or synthetic gum and other chemicals used to dampen the plate and keep non-printing areas from accepting ink.
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- Four Colour
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Or ‘four colour process’ using the four basic printing colours: cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
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- Four-Color Press
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The four basic colors of ink (yellow, magenta, cyan, and black), which reproduce full-color photographs or art.
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- Four-color Process Printing
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The process of reproducing full color printed images. The image must be converted to a set of halftone screened negatives which are a series of dots of various sizes. A halftone negative is made for each of the separate color components of the image (cyan, magenta, yellow, black).
These color separations are made into printing plates, one for each color and when printed, the overlapping dots of the color components reproduce a full color image. Also called full-color printing.
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- Four-Em Quad
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A typographical unit of measurement corresponding to 36 points.
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- Four-panel fold
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A sheet folded in half, creating four panels (the front and back of the two halves). It is also referred to as a fly fold.
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