Fine Print Knowledge Center
The online guide to print and design.
- Security Paper
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Paper that contains special features, such as dyes, florescent fibers, and watermarks, used on checks and other security sensitive documents.
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- Security Software
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Software that is used to prevent unauthorized access of data and resources.
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- See-Through Register
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A print element on banknotes used to protect against counterfeiting.
Parts of a character or symbol are printed on both sides of the note and only appear as a complete character when the note is held up to light.
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- Seed
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Names and addresses added to a mailing list as a means of verifying that the mailing was delivered, that the package was accurate and to determine delivery time of the postal service to different regions.
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- Segmentation
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Selecting part of a list according to specific criteria, such as gender, geographic location, frequency of ordering, profession and personal interests.
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- Selective Binding
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The personalized production of bound print products from a selection of components.
Selective binding can be used to produce different versions of catalogs tailored to specific customer groups or when various advertising motifs are required for different issues of a magazine.
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- Selective Focus
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Choosing a lens opening that produces a shallow depth of field.
Usually this is used to isolate a subject by causing most other elements in the scene to be blurred.
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- Self Contained Coated Back Paper
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SC CB Paper
Paper that has the same characteristics as self contained (SC) paper except it is also a (CB) paper which means it is coated on the back so that it can create an image on a (CF) coated front paper.
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- Self Contained Paper
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SC Paper
A self imaging carbonless paper that does not need the use of any other carbonless stock to make an image appear.
When pressure is applied, it causes the chemicals on the front of the sheet to create an image.
This paper is used in ribbonless impact printers.
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- Self Cover
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A product where the cover stock is the same weight as the text stock instead of having a separate cover of heavier weight attached.
This type of cover is generally used on booklets and smaller publications.
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- Self-Adhesive Label
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- Self-Mailer
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A type of mailing device which does not require a standard business envelope or package as a means to send the item.
The different mail components, such as the letter, response piece and reply envelope, are all part of the single piece.
A self-mailer may be a post-card, a single-folded document, a tri-folded document or similarly produced items, commonly used for business purposes such as statements, checks and invoices.
However, it is also used for informaitonal and promotional mailing.
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- Self-Timer
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An internal clock to allow the user to activate a digital camera and have the image shot in a delayed amount of time, such as 20 seconds.
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- Semi- Fine
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Paper stock with a mechanical wood pulp content of more than five percent.
The term is usually reserved for uncoated papers, as coated stock is usually referred to as “slightly mechanical”.
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- Semi-Automatic
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Labeling equipment that has part of its operation controlled directly by a human and the other part is controlled by the machine.
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- Semibold Type
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A type that is inbetween that of a medium and boldface type.
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- Sendmail
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- Senefelder, Alois (1771-1834)
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The inventor of lithography and stone printing. In 1796, Senefelder discovered that by using a greasy substance to write on polished Solnhofen limestone and then lightly etching it with an acidic gum Arabic solution, ink would only adhere to the areas which had been written on.
In 1818, Senefelder published his “Vollst Indiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerei” (The Complete Textbook of Stone Printing), in which he outlined how the discovery came about.
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- SensaLite
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Trademark for patented Kodak flash technology, employed in Kodak Advantix cameras, that automatically determines when flash is needed.
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- Separation
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The decomposition of the color data of an image into separate colors (in accordance with the CMYK color model) for the individual passes of the four-color printing procedure; also denotes means the conversion of RGB colors in to CMYK colors.
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- Separation Algorithm
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One of the formulas or procedures performed for color space transformation.
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- Separations
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Refers to four single-color images generated by separating a color image into its cyan, magenta, yellow, and black components.
Separations are produced with the use of a process camera and the appropriate filters (red, green, and blue; the primary colors of light).
When a red filter is used, the red light is filtered out, leaving green and blue which combine to form the cyan image.
The green filter produces a magenta image, and so on. There are computer programs which will also accomplish this.
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- Serial Cable
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An RS-232 standard computer connection used most often to connect analog modems for Web connections. Transmission speeds are very slow, carrying only a single bit of data per transmission.
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- Serial Cable/Port
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An RS-232 standard computer connection used most often to connect analog modems for Web connections.
Transmission speeds are very slow, carrying only a single bit of data per transmission.
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- Serial Line Internet Protocol
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SLIP
A set of rules and formats defining the way in which packets are transmitted over a serial network link such as a telephone line, allowing dialup connections to the Internet.
It is widely used but somewhat outdated.
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- Serialization
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A work of fiction that is printed in successive parts first in a magazine and then in book form, or is printed as a book and then printed in successive parts in a magazine.
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- Series Author
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An author whose work consists of series titles. Kevin J. Anderson, author of Star Wars; Young Jedi Knights, is an example.
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- Series Title
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A collective title for a successive group of publications with a common theme or subject, which are usually published by the same publisher but not necessarily by the same author.
Star Wars, Sweet Valley High, and Goosebumps are examples of series titles.
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- Serif
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A small stroke at the end of the lines of a letter.
This design feature is typical of so-called Roman faces.
Serifs cater to the perception mechanism of the human eye and thus make type faces easier to read.
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- Serif Type
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A typeface that has the cross strokes on the ends of the letters.
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