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- Limp Cover
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A book that has a flexible cloth, leather, or vellum cover. In the last quarter of the 18th century and the first quarter of the 19th, limp leather covers were commonly used for books to be carried in the pocket. In the 20th century, the primary use was for cheap, educational, sentimental verse, or devotional books. Also known as limp cloth, limp binding, limp leather, or limp vellum.
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- Limp Leather
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A book that has a flexible cloth, leather, or vellum cover.
In the last quarter of the 18th century and the first quarter of the 19th, limp leather covers were commonly used for books to be carried in the pocket. In the 20th century, the primary use was for cheap, educational, sentimental verse, or devotional books.
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- Limp Vellum
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A book that has a flexible cloth, leather, or vellum cover.
In the last quarter of the 18th century and the first quarter of the 19th, limp leather covers were commonly used for books to be carried in the pocket. In the 20th century, the primary use was for cheap, educational, sentimental verse, or devotional books.
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- Line Art
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In traditional graphic arts, line art refers to pictures that use no halftones techniques and no midtones, just black and white. Also called line copy.
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- Line Block
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A letterpress printing plate made up of solid areas and lines and without tones.
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- Line Conversion Screen
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Piece of film containing line patterns that break light into those patterns as it passes through.
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- Line Copy
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Any copy suitable for reproduction without using a halftone screen.
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- Line Drawing
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A drawing containing no grays or middle tones. In general, any drawing that can be reproduced without the use of halftone techniques.
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- Line Engraving
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Refers to a printing plate (generally for letterpress printing) which is created by etching on the basis of a line original.
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- Line Gauge
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A metal rule used by printers. Divided into Picas it is 72 picas long (11.952in).
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- Line Gluing
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A continuous line of glue that is applied between the parts of a form to hold them together. Line gluing on continuous forms is generally applied in the left and right margin stubs. On unit sets, the line gluing is generally applied in the stub area.
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- Line Halftone Combination
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Also referred to as a combination plate. A plate that has both line copy and halftones on it.
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- Line Hole Punching
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- Line Length
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The width of a text line, The line length is generally measured in picas, points or characters.
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- Line Negative
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- Line Original
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Single or multi-colored original in which each color is present in a single tonal value. Generally speaking, line originals are used for black/white illustrations, such as drawings.
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- Line Screen
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A transparent screen which has been etched with fine lines. It is used to convert a picture or photograph into a halftone dot pattern so that it can be printed.
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- Line Spacing
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1. On a form, it is the number of print lines per inch. Generally 6 or 8 for continuous printer, 6 for typewritten and 3 or 4 for handwritten.
2. In text, it is the spacing from the baseline of one line of text to the next. Also referred to as leading.
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- Line Speed
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The speed at which data is transmitted over a line. Line speed is measured in bits per second.
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- Line-Haul
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Transportation from one city to another as differentiated from local switching service.
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- Linear Paper
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- Lineholes
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Evenly spaced holes that are punched into the margin of a form, used at the collator to guide the paper through and align each part. On a continuous form, they are also used to guide the form through a continuous printer. On a unit set they are generally trimmed off at the collator.
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- Linen Finish
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A paper finish that resembles linen cloth which is usually produced after the papermaking process as an offline embossing process.
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- Linen Paper
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- Linen Strip
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A Fastback Super Strip made to resemble the “crash” used in traditional hard cover bookbinding.
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- Linen Tester
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A magnifying glass designed for checking the dot image of a halftone.
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- Liner
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The backer material or carrier sheet of a pressure sensitive material. It protects the adhesive until time of use. Generally has a release coating applied to allow the adhesive to release easily. Also referred to as the backing or release liner.
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- Linerless Labels
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Pressure sensitive labels that do not have a liner. The labels are wound on a roll that has had a release coating applied to the front of the facestock to prevent the adhesive from sticking on the label below.
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- Lines Per Inch
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LPI
1. A measurement of the number of lines of type in an inch, determined by measuring from baseline to baseline. Example: 6 LPI indicates that 6 lines of type would fit in one inch.
2. The number of lines of dots per inch in a halftone screen or linescreen. A screen with a higher lpi, such as 200 lpi has many smaller dots which provide finer detail and a sharper image clarity. The LPI of a halftone screen is also called frequency.
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- Lineshot
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Line art to be shot (converted into a negative piece of film) on camera and stripped in.
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