Fine Print Knowledge Center
The online guide to print and design.
- Trade Cloth
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The regular cloth edition of a book, not a limited edition.
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- Trade Edition
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- Trade Paperback
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A soft cover edition of a book that generally has a high-quality binding and is in a larger size format than a traditional paperback.
Also known as Quality Paperback.
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- Trade Shop
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A printer, bindery operation or service bureau that does work for other graphic arts professionals.
They generally do not do work for the general public.
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- Trademark
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A registered word, letter, or device that grants exclusive rights to the owner to sell or distribute the item to which it is applied.
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- Traditional Color Angles
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The screen angles most commonly used for color separations, yellow at 0 degrees, cyan at 15 degrees, black at 45 degrees and magenta at 75 degrees.
The best results in reducing a moire pattern are achieved when using these angles.
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- Transfer Tape
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A tape which consists of a liner covering a double sided adhesive, wound into a large roll. As the tape is unwound, the exposed side of the adhesive is applied to the front or back of a sheet.
To use the tape, the liner material is removed to expose the other side of the adhesive, allowing the product to be attached to another form, a carton, a plastic container, or numerous other items.
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- Transitional
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Typefaces that have considerable contrast between the thin and thick strokes in the letters, bracketed serifs, and has a somewhat vertical emphasis in the letters.
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- Translucent
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When a material transmitts light in a diffuse manner so that objects behind it are not clearly distinguishable.
Translucent material can be seen through but not as clearly as a transparent material such as acetate.
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- Translucent Paper
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A thin paper that does not have the same clarity as acetate, but can be used as an overlay allowing any content placed immediately beneath it to be viewed with some lack of clarity.
The stock is most often used for business forms or for blueprint work.
Basis weights are generally 11lb., 13 lb., 15 lb. and 16 lb.
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- Transmission Control Protocol
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TCP
The protocol that provides reliable delivery service to Internet applications.
Using TCP, one Internet client can transmit streams of data to another Internet client.
The TCP protocol retransmits lost and corrupted data packets to ensure reliable delivery of information.
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- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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TCP/IP
A set of rules governing the reliable transfer of data between computers on the Internet.
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- Transparency
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1. A positive photographic image on film, viewed or projected by transmitted light (light shining through film).
2. A full color image photographically produced on transparent film.
The transparency is scanned so that color separations can be produced for printing.
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- Transparent
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When a material transmits light without diffusion, allowing an object to be clearly seen through it.
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- Transparent Ink
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Ink that allows the paper or previously printed ink colors to show through.
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- Transparent Label
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A label whose facestock, adhesive and topcoat are all transparent, allowing objects to be seen through it. It gives the product a “no label” look.
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- Transparent Magnetic Layer
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Information storage layer built into Advanced Photo System film that enables enhanced information exchange capabilities, improving print quality by capturing lighting and scene information and other picture-taking data; basis for future information exchange features.
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- Transpose
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The exchange or switching of a letter, word, line or image with the position of another letter, word, line or image.
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- Trapping
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The overlapping of adjoining colors or ink to help prevent the possibility of a fine white area showing between colors due to misregistration of color negatives or due to normal variations on the press.
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- Tri-Fold
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A fold where a three panel piece has both side sections folded inward, one on top of the other Each section is approximately 1/3 the length of the piece.
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- Triad
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Set of three colors equidistant around the color wheel.
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- Trim
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1. The process of cutting the product to its finished size.
The excess that is cut off is also referred to as the trim.
2. Combining various roll sizes to be slit from a full width roll from the paper machine so that an acceptable percentage of the salable width will be used.
3. The edge of the page of a printed product that actually extends beyond the planned dimensions of the final product.
This trim enables all the pages of a book or magazine to be cut to the same size in the final processing stages.
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- Trim Marks
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Marks that are added to the copy and printed along with the other copy to show where the sheet will be trimmed.
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- Trim Size
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The final size that a printed page will be after excess has been trimmed.
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- Trimmer Assembly
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In the burster-trimmer-stacker, it is the device that removes the linehole margins on the form.
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- Trimming
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The process by which the pages of a book, brochure or magazine are smoothed or evened out. The three unbound sides of a publication are usually trimmed, though in the adhesive binding process, all four sides are trimmed.
Trimming also separates the individual pages, so that the book or brochure can be opened.
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- Tripod
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A three-legged supporting stand used to hold the camera steady.
Especially useful when using slow shutter speeds and/or telephoto lenses.
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- Tritones
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Three halftone images, produced at different screen angles, which were made from the same image and then printed over each other in three different colors.
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- Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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TFTP
A less complex and easier to program version of FTP that lacks the authentication services FTP provides and relies on UDP rather than TCP for data transport.
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- Trojan Horse
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A type of computer virus in which the malicious code hides inside an harmless-looking file or executable.
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