Fine Print Knowledge Center
The online guide to print and design.
- Foilfast Title Sheet
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Adhesive sheets that match Powis Parker’s Suede and Comp Hardcovers. Designed to work with let you add foil printing to your books.
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- Fold
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In bookbinding a sharp break or bend in the papers, generally performed by special machines. A distinction is made between right angle and parallel folds. In right angle folding the next fold is always at a right angle to the previous one.
In parallel folding, the first is always parallel to the second.
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- Fold Dummy
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A sample mockup that shows page sequence, signature arrangement, orientation, binding edge and side edges.
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- Fold lay
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A kind of lay employed in bookbinding; the angle at which printed sheets are fed by the bookbinder in order to ensure positioning and register accuracy when folding.
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- Fold Marks
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Marks printed on a page to show where the folds are to be placed.
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- Fold Resistance
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The ability of the paper to hold up to multiple foldings before breaking.
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- Folder
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1. A piece of equipment used to fold flat sheets into folded products.
2. A device at the end of the press or collator that is used to fanfold continuous forms.
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- Folding
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The process of bending printed sheets in a specific area so the sheets can then be formed into pamphlets, brochures, booklets or any other type of product requiring this process. See also Parallel Fold and Right Angle Fold.
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- Folding Boxboard
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FBB
Multi-layer board, often mineral-coated, with an outer layer of sulphate (kraft) pulp and middle layer of mechanical pulp (groundwood, pressure groundwood or TMP; in top grades CTMP pulp may also be applied); used primarily for consumer cartons for packaging of dry and moist foods, cigarettes and other consumer products; also used in the graphic industry for catalogue covers, postcards and folders, etc.
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- Folding Endurance
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A paper test which measures the number of double (back and forth) folds that can be made on a sheet of paper under tension, before it breaks.
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- Folding machines
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Special machines used to fold printed materials. Knife folders employ a blunt edged knife to press the paper between two continuously moving rollers. The paper is caught between the rollers and carried away, a fold being made where the knife makes contact.
The buckle or plate folder feeds the paper end first between a pair of continuously revolving rollers. Both methods of folding can be combined in one machine, the combination folder.
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- Folding marks
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- Folding scheme (or Folding Layout)
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Specification of the number, direction and sequence of folds for an individual production job.
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- Foldout
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An page larger than trim size that is folded one or more times to fit into a book or magazine.
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- Folio
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1. A sheet folded once to make two leaves or four pages.
2. A book that is up to 15” tall.
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- Folio Size
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- Font
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A complete set of upper and lower case characters, numerials, punctuation marks, and symbols of one specific typeface, size, and style.
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- Font Cache
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A portion of printer memory that is used for storing fonts. It is used to store bitmapped fonts that have been generated from font outlines, making the it unnecessary to process the outline multiple times each time a particular character is needed, speeding up the process.
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- Font Family
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All the fonts in one typeface. Includes bold and italic fonts and other weights available in that typeface plus a range of sizes.
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- Font Matching
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A sometimes undesirable process used when a chosen font is not available, the closest possible match is made, sometimes causing reflow of the text or other errors.
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- Food Contact Adhesives
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Adhesives meeting specified sections of the Food & Drug Administration Code of Federal Regulations. These regulations cover direct food labeling as well as incidental contact. Special product recommendations are necessary for specific applications.
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- Foot
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- Foot Trim
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The area at the bottom portion of a page to be trimmed off.
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- Footer
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A headline or title that appears at the bottom of a page.
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- Footnote
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Explanatory note inserted at the foot of the page referring to a point within the text, usually indicated by symbols such as asterisks and daggers or by superior numerals.
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- For Position Only
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FPO
The use of low quality art or photos on a layout for the purpose of showing size and positioning only. The art would be replaced with high quality images before the finished product was produced.
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- Forced Development
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- Fore-Edge
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The outside edge of the book where the book opens (opposite of the spine). Also known as front-edge. See book anatomy section for illustration.
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- Fore-Edge Painting
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A watercolor decoration, usually a scene or a geometric design, painted on the ends of the pages of the fore-edge of a book. Traditionally, the pages are painted so the decoration disappears when the book is closed and only appears again when the pages are fanned.
However, the opposite can also be true of a fore-edge painting; the decoration can appear only when the book is closed. The tradition of fore-edge painting dates back to the 10th century and reached its peak of popularity in England in the latter half of the 17th century.
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- Foreground
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