Fine Print Knowledge Center
The online guide to print and design.
- Single Ply
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Forms that are made up of only a single sheet of paper opposed to multi-part forms.
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- Single Sheet Products
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Any single ply form or sheet that is not a laser form or a continuous one part form.
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- Single-Lens-Reflex Camera
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SLR Camera
A camera in which you view the scene through the same lens that takes the picture.
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- Site
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A location on the Web that consists of a home page and generally several other pages that are linked to the home page.
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- Size
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1. A reference to the dimensions of paper rolls or sheet stock.
2. A starch or casein based solution added to the paper, when it is manufactured in order to reduce the moisture and ink absorbency.
It could be used as a means to reduce linting or chalking and to improve the ink holdout or drying characteristics.
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- Sizing
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The process by which certain materials such as glue, rosin or starch are added to the furnish or pulp mass of a paper before processing.
Sizing increases the ink receptivity of a paper and gives it other special characteristics.
Special grades may be subsequently surfaced-sized on the dry end of the paper machine.
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- Sizing Strength
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Refers to the amount of force necessary to separate particles from the surface of the paper as it moves vertically.
Picking resistance is a key criterion for offset-printing applications.
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- Skeleton
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The waste area of the facestock and adhesive that is removed from around the label after it is die cut. Also referred to as the matrix..
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- Skew
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The slant or distortion of an object, a character, a bar or bar code, in respect to a straight line that is at a right angle to the slant.
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- Skid
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A wooden platform used to hold stacks of paper or cartons. Used to store or ship materials or finished products. Another term for pallet.
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- Skip Dot
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Unprinted areas that remain void of ink or any printing.
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- Skip Perforation
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A partial perforation that runs parallel to the direction that the web is running through the press. Also called a jump perforation.
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- Slab Serif Font
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A font type with slab-like or serifs, originally called “Egyptienne”.
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- Slave Flash
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A dual flash or companion flash that fires a flash after the light from the primary flash is detected.
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- Slide
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A photographic transparency (positive) mounted for projection.
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- SLIP
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Serial Line Internet Protocol
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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- Slip Sheeting
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The inserting of a blank sheet in between printed product to protect against setoff and scuffing.
Is also used to separate stacks of paper into specified amounts to indicate a unit, such as a book or a specific package amount.
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- SLIP/PPP
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Serial Line Internet Protocol and Point-to-Point Protocol
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- Slipcase
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A box open on one side so that when a book is slipped into it, the spine shows.
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- Slit Back
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A slit in the liner of a pressure sensitive label, used to assist in the removal of the facestock from the liner.
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- Slit Face
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A slit die cut on the face of the label or a tab slit at one end to make the labels easier to remove from the liner.
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- Slitter
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1. Cutting wheels, mounted on a press, collator or other converting equipment, that cut sheets into specific widths or trims the edges of a form as it is being converted.
2. A device that cuts the punched holes from continuous forms as they are coming out of a printe
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- Slitting
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Cutting paper by the use of a cutting wheel. Paper may be slit into smaller sheets or a web of paper may be slit into narrower rolls.
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- Slow Sync Mode
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A setting on a digital camera’’s flash in order to allow enough light for natural looking tones and backgrounds.
The flash fires a short burst to provide light for the foreground subject, while the shutter remains open longer allowing a lighter background.
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- SLR Camera
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Single-Lens-Reflex Camera
A camera in which you view the scene through the same lens that takes the picture.
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- Small Caps
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The term used for upper-case letters with a size equal to the basic height of lower-case letters.
Small caps are used to emphasize individual words in a text.
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- Small Computer System Interface
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SCSI
The industry standard for connecting peripheral devices to PCs.
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- Smart Labels
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Labels containing electronic devices that have read/write memory used to store and access information.
The electronic device is a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder or tag.
The RFID technology, like bar codes, is used to automatically capture data.
It is different from a bar code in that it can hold much more data, it can be reprogrammed, and its data is accessed by a reader but it does not need optical contact with the reader to be read.
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- Smart Labels
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Labels that are used for the identification of objects and that contain transponders as components of radio-based wireless identification systems.
These devices can be designed so small and light that they can be easily incorporated in to standard adhesive labels.
See also RFID
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- SmartMedia
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A flash memory-based storage card designed specifically for digital cameras. It is available in 8, 16, 32 and 64 MB.
The cards can be read by adapters for PC or with the use of FlashPath, which allows cards to be read by almost any Mac or Windows-based computer’’s floppy disk drive.
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