Fine Print School | Glossary: S

Serigraphy: Silk Screen Printing.

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Server: A computer or software package that provides shared services to the client workstations on a network, such as a file server, a mail server or a print server.

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Service Bureau: A company that supplies a specialized service to a particular industry.

In Direct Mail this is a company that specializes in data processing functions that are necessary to maintain the mailing lists.

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Service Temperature: The temperature range at which a label will be exposed to while attached to the product.

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Set Form: A text layout in which the length of the lines varies according to the placement of optional images or graphic elements.

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Set Off: The transfer of ink from one side of the printed sheet to the back side of the sheet on top of it due to the ink not properly drying before the sheets come in contact with each other.

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Set Solid: Type that is set without inserting any space between the lines.

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Set Up: 1.The process of setting up and adjusting a printing press for a particular ink, paper and specifications prior to printing.

This includes adjusting the infeed, grippers and guides, adjusting ink for proper coverage, registering copy, and matching the printed piece with the proof to be sure everything is correct. Also referred to as makeready.

2. The paper used while making all the necessary adjustments before printing the actual run. Also referred to as makeready.

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Sewn: A pamphlet that has been sewn together and was not originally bound with boards.

Offprints are typically sewn.

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Sewn Case Binding: A book made with a stiff outer cover, which is usually covered with cloth, vinyl or leather.

The signatures in the book have been sewn together and then the first and last pages of the book are glued to the inside of the front and back cover.

The spine of the signatures is not glued to the book.

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Sewn Soft Cover Binding: Binding of paperback or soft covers that are sewn onto the pages of a book rather than with the use of adhesive or wire binding.

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Sextodecimo: A small book, approximately four inches wide and six inches tall.

To make it, each sheet of paper is folded four times, forming sixteen leaves (32 pages).

Also see 16mo.

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SFB: Sustainable Forestry Board

The Sustainable Forestry Board, Inc is committed to making forests work for today and tomorrow.

This diverse group of conservationists, scientists, foresters, public officials, and landowners promotes the long-term health and sustainability of our forests by governing the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Standard.

The SFB is the sole body responsible for the content of the SFI Standard and the Audit Procedures and Qualifications.

SFB

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SFI: Sustainable Forestry Initiative

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative program is a comprehensive system of principles, objectives and performance measures developed by professional foresters, conservationists and scientists, among others that combines the perpetual growing and harvesting of trees with the long-term protection of wildlife, plants, soil and water quality.

There are currently over 150 million acres of forestland in North America enrolled in the SFI program, making it among the world’s largest sustainable forestry programs.

The SFI program was adopted by AF&PA in 1994, and as a testament to the association’s strong commitment to the goal of sustainable forestry, participation in the SFI program is a condition of membership for AF&PA.

Since 1994, AF&PA has asked 17 members to leave the association for failing to meet the SFI Standard.

The SFI Program is overseen by the SFB, an independent 501©3 organization, which is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the SFI Standard and verification procedures.

SFI

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SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language

An international standard system used for organizing and tagging elements of a document.

It does not do any particular formatting but instead tags elements that can then be used to format elements in different ways.

A standardized language (ISO 8879) used to depict structured texts.

SGML is very versatile, but is difficult to use due to its size.

Of greater significance is XML, a reduced version of SGML designed specifically for exchanging structured data in the Internet.

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SGML Document Interchange Format: This refers to a data structure that allows a main SGML document and its related document to be combined for interchange in a way that will allow the recipient of the data to reconstitute the documents.

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Shade: To darken by adding black.

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Shading: To display degrees of darkness.

The choices are black, white, and all shades of gray in between.

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Shadow: The darkest area in a photograph or illustration.

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Shareware: Copyrighted software that you can download off the internet to use on a trial basis.

The user is given a trial period of time to use the software.

Then if continued use is desired, the user is expected to pay for the software.

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Sharpen: Making halftone dots smaller in color correction and platemaking by adjusting film exposure time.

This is sometimes done to offset for the dot gain that occurs when being printed on the press. Sharpening is also done electronically by exaggerating the difference between tones or colors at their edges.

Some paint and color manipulation programs have tools to sharpen selected areas of the image rather than having it affect the entire image.

Sharpening is helpful when the image only needs touching up in specific areas.

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Sheet Fed: A printing process where the paper being fed into the press is in sheet form.

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Sheet Feeder: The component of a sheetfed offset printing press or a print finisher in which the sheet is aligned to front and side lays.

The function of the feeder is to align the sheets arriving in shingles or as separate sheets and to position them before they are transferred to the gripper systems.

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Sheet Music: Compositions printed on unbound paper.

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Sheetfed Offset Press: The most popular form of lithographic printing used today, of which there are two variations, sheetfed offset and web offset.

Sheetfed offset presses print individual, cut sheets.

These presses are subdivided into the following format classes, indicating the maximum format of sheet that can be used: 0 500 mm x 700 mm I 560 mm x 830 mm II 610 mm x 860 mm III 650 mm x 965 mm III b 720 mm x 1020 mm IV 780 mm x 1120 mm V 890 mm x 1260 mm VI 1000 mm x 1400 mm VII 1100 mm x 1600 mm X 1400 mm x 2000 mm

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Sheets: Individual flat cut size pieces of paper. Available in many sizes.

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Shelf Life: 1. The length of time that a product is expected to maintain its anticipated quality level.

2. The time period in which an item, such as a catalog, remains effective.

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Shelf Worn: Refers to condition; the book shows visible signs of wearing on the binding and/or edges due to numerous removals and placements on countless shelves.

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Shell: A program in the UNIX operating system that interprets the commands entered at the computer.

A shell can run simple programs referred to as shell scripts.

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Shingled: The gutter margin is gradually narrowed from the outside page of a signature to the inside portion of each page, when the book is assembled.

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Glossary: S

Sustainable Forestry Board

Sustainable Forestry Initiative

Standard Generalized Markup Language