Fine Print Knowledge Center
The online guide to print and design.
- Highlight Color
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- Highlight Dot
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- Highlight Halftone
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The lightest or whitest parts in a photograph represented in a halftone reproduction by the smallest dots or the absence of all dots.
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- Highlighting
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1. Selecting text on a computer monitor used for copying or deleting.
2. The bright pen markings where the previous owner marked the book to highlight words, sentences, and/or passages of text
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- Hinged Cover
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Perfect bound cover scored 1/8 inch (3mm) from the spine so it folds at the hinge instead of, along the edge of the spine.
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- Hinges
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The joint created on a hardcover book which allows you to open the book without breaking the spine.
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- Hinting
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A set of rules that are stored with an outline font, used to improve the appearance of the font when it is printed at smaller sizes.
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- History List
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A list of URLs and titles of documents accessed during a user’s session on the Internet.
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- Hit
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Each individual request from a web browser for each individual item of a page from a web server.
For example, if a web browser displayed a page that contains 4 graphics, it would require 5 hits to display the page, one for each of the 4 graphics and one for the HTML page.
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- HKS Inks
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A hybrid system for inks which comprises 84 different color tones.
It is jointly offered by three ink manufacturers:
Horstmann-Steinberg, Kast + Ehinger and H. Schminke & Co.
It is structured on nine basic colors plus black and white. Ink series are available for sheetfed offset on coated and uncoated papers, newsprint and continuous paper.
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- HLS
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Hue, Lightness and Saturation
A color control option found in design and page assembly software.
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- Holding Fee
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Charge made to clients who keep photograph longer than agreed to.
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- Holding Power (Sheer Adhesion)
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Ability to withstand stress, as in holding rigid label materials on small diameter cylindrical objects. Involves both adhesive and cohesive strength.
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- Holdout
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Refers to a paper’’s ability to hold ink on the surface consistently, so that it will dry in a sharper, more clearly defined dot and produce higher ink gloss.
When ink is absorbed into the sheet, it spreads, creating a phenomenon referred to as “dot gain”. Higher holdout means a sharper dot and increased ink gloss, but can also cause ink to rub off or mark the next sheet.
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- Holistic
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A belief that a system must be managed as a whole, rather than addressing the individual components that make it function.
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- Hollow
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That space on the spine of a case-bound book between the block of the book and the case binding.
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- Hologram
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1.An image that displays a multi-dimensional image when a beam of light hits it at the right angle. When turned at different angles, it will change colors or a different image appears.
2.A three-dimensional image created by the interference image which results from interaction between light reflected from the object to be imaged with a reference beam from the light source. This method requires extremely coherent light (synchronously oscillating light), such as that generated by a laser.
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- Holograph
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- Home Page
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The first page of a website. The Home Page resides at the top of the directory tree and has hyperlinks to connect to the other pages.
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- Honing
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A mechanical method used to remove unwanted image areas from plates by rubbing the image away with an abrasive material.
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- Hook
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A communication device to draw the audience in and get them to respond as desired.
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- Horizontal Format
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A page or image that is in landscape orientation, to be viewed horizontally.
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- Horizontal Perforation
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Perforation on the sheet that runs left to right, and is parallel to the lines of text.
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- Hors Texte
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French for “outside of the text,” and the term usually refers to plates, without printing on the reverse sides.
The plates may be tipped in to paper of a different stock from that of the text.
Also see Versos Blank.
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- Hors Texte, Versos Blank
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Hors texte” is French for “outside of the text,” and the term usually refers to plates, without printing on the reverse sides. The plates may be tipped in to paper of a different stock from that of the text.
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- Host
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A computer that functions as the start and end point for data transfer, and thought of as the place where a Web site resides.
An Internet host has a unique IP address and a unique domain or host name.
A host can also refer to a Web hosting company.
The host computer holds the data that is accessed by the other computers on the network.
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- Host Address
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- Host Name
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- Hosting Content
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When an organization uses an Internet Service Provider, consultant, etc., to run its Web site.
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- Hot Buttons
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