Fine Print

Fine Print Knowledge Center

The online guide to print and design.

Introduction
A Brief History of Printing
PrePress
Planning and Strategy
Design Tips
Color Management
File Submission
Proofing
Materials and Stocks
Inks
Platemaking
Types of Printing
Offset Lithography
Digital Printing
Screen Printing
Gravure
Thermography
Flexography
Letterpress
Large Format
Specialty Printing
3D Printing
Promotional
Security Printing
Green Printing
Types of Finishes
Coatings
Binding
Folding
Scoring
Die Cutting
Embossing
Foil Stamping
Perforations

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.