Fine Print Knowledge Center
The online guide to print and design.
- W3
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World Wide Web
A virtual world formed by Internet HTTP servers containing richly formatted pages that can be downloaded upon request to browsers such as Safari, Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
It was created at CERN in 1994.
WWW documents are marked up with HTML, an SGML application
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- W3C
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World Wide Web Consortium
They are the group that oversees Web development ideas keeping them in conformance with the standards.
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- WAF
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With All Faults
A description used mostly by auctioneers and booksellers to describe books that are suspected of being imperfect.
The term is used to warn the buyer that the item may not be returned for any reason.
It is, in other words, sold “As Is.”
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- WAIS
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Wide Area Information Server
Software that permits searching, with keywords and phrases, huge Internet indexes.
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- Wallet Flap Envelope
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An envelope that has diagonal seams and is available in standard business envelope sizes.
It has a square flap which extends down about half the size of the envelope.
The seal flap also has extra gum protection.
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- WAN
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Wide Area Network
A network or intranet connecting multiple locations outside of a single building or company location.
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- Wand Scanner
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A hand-held, pen like wand used as a contact bar code scanner.
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- Warning Bands
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A border printed on the document that indicates the security features being used on the document.
Sometimes the warning band will also explain how to detect certain features.
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- Warped
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Refers to condition; the boards or paperback covers are bent and twisted.
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- Wash Up
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The cleaning of an ink unit on a press to get it ready to change to a different color.
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- Washed
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When a map, print, or pages of a book are cleaned in a mild chemical solution to remove stains, writing, or acid from the pages.
See also Re-Sized.
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- Waste
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Incorrectly printed pages and other paper generated in print shops such as damaged paper, trial runs when setting up presses, packaging materials and various other print products and book returns.
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- Waste Paper
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Paper and paperboard disposed of as industrial, commercial and household waste, and sent back to the papermaking company for recycling.
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- Water Fugitive Ink
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When water fugitive ink comes in contact with water or any aqueous type of solution, it will run and stain the document.
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- Water-Based Coating
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Coatings manufactured on the basis of water that dry relatively quickly, are odor-free and do not yellow.
Water-based coatings are mainly applied using coating units, though in some cases they are also applied using a press inking unit.
The layer thickness of the coating can reach 3 mm. Water-based coatings are not as glossy as UV coatings.
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- Waterless Printing
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A printing process where a fountain solution is not necessary.
The non-image areas of the plate have been treated with silicone to prevent inking in those areas.
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- Watermark
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Designs on sheets of paper created by varying paper thickness.
A real watermark occurs when the dandy roll displaces (light watermark) or concentrates (shaded watermark) the pulp mass in the wire section of the paper machine.
Facsimile, or impressed, watermarks are made in the paper web after it has left the wire section.
Imitation watermarks are added off machine by means of a transparent varnish or embossing process.
Translucent letters or a design in a sheet of paper. Usually can be seen only by holding the sheet to the light.
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- Watermark - Artificial
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Artificial watermarks are applied after the paper has been manufactured.
They simulate a true watermark but are only visible on the side that the watermark is applied.
They can be applied by the paper manufacturer or by the forms manufacturer.
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- Watermark - True
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A translucent image created in the paper on the paper machine, with the use of a dandy roller.
The image is generally the name of the paper or a company logo and can be viewed from both sides of the paper. Also referred to as a genuine watermark.
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- WAV
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- Wax Pick
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A process that measures the ability of inks to pick fibers or particles from the surface of paper as a manner of testing the surface strength of paper stocks.
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- Web
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1. A computer network made up of Internet protocols and hypertext pages.
It is a system of hypertext documents that can be retrieved and viewed by anyone who has access to the internet.
2. Web is also used to refer to a roll of paper used on a web-fed press.
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- Web Crawler
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A software program designed to search the Web for a specific purpose such as to find a listing of all of the URLs within a particular site.
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- Web Paper
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- Web Press
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A printing press that prints on a large, continuous roll of paper as opposed to printing on sheets.
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- Web Server
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1. Software that receives the requests from the client and then retrieves the requested information and sends it back to the client.
2. File server that contains the Web HTML software and other applications used to form the Web site(s).
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- Web Services
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The interfaces that are becoming industry standards for connecting dissimilar Web applications.
Interfaces such as SOAP, UDDI and other types of protocols have been developed to replace custom programmed API’’s that previously enabled applications to jointly communicate and share data.
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- Web Services Description Language
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WSDL
The specifications, including interface and implementation-specific details about Web services and their owners, that are published to a UDDI (Universal Description Discovery, and Integration) directory.
It uses XML to describe details such as data types, deployment details, interface, protocols and location.
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- Web Services Flow Language
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WSFL
A developing standard, created by IBM, used to outline reliances and interactions between Web Services.
It is a way of defining workflow to meet business objectives.
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- Web Site
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A website or Web Site is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet.
A web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a protocol that transfers information from the website’s server to display in the user’s web browser.
All publicly accessible websites are seen as constituting a mammoth “World Wide Web” of information.
The pages of a website will be accessed from a common root URL called the homepage, and usually reside on the same physical server.
The URLs of the pages organize them into a hierarchy, although the hyperlinks between them control how the reader perceives the overall structure and how the traffic flows between the different parts of the sites.
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