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Encyclopaedia of Book Printing
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Alpha index
- Acid-free Paper
- Acrobat
- Adhesive Binding
- Aliasing and Anti-Aliasing
- Antique
- Art Paper
- Artwork
- A Sizes
- Author’s Alterations
- Author’s Proofs
- Backing-up
- Bible Paper
- Binding
- Bleed
- Block / Blocking
- Board
- Book Block
- Book Paper
- B Paper Sizes
- Brightness
- Buckram
- Bulk
- Bull’s Eye
- Burst (Notch) Binding
- Calendered Paper
- Case Binding (Hardcover)
- Cast Coated Paper
- Chemical Wood Pulp
- Chinese New Year (CNY)
- CMYK (Process Colour)
- Coated Paper
- Cold Melt
- Colophon
- Colour Proof
- Colour Swatch(es)
- Comb Binding
- Commodity stock
- Corrigenda
- Cracks/fractures
- Creasing
- Crop/cropping
- Crop marks
- Cut Flush
- Die-cutting
- Die stamping
- Digital Press (DP)
- Digital Printing
- Dot Gain
- DPI (Dots Per Inch)
- Dummy
- Duotone
- Edition
- Em
- Embellishments
- Embossing (and debossing)
- Endmatter
- Endnotes
- Endpapers
- Errata slip or Erratum
- Extant
- Extent
- Flaps/French Flaps
- Flexibinding (or Flexiback)
- Flush Cut
- FOB
- Foiling
- Four-colour inks
- Four-colour press
- Four-colour process
- FPO
- Frontmatter
- Grain direction
- Grayscale
- GSM (Grams per Square Metre)
- Guillotine
- Gutter
- Half-bound
- Hardback or Hardcover
- Hard Copy
- Head and Tail Bands
- Hickey
- Hot melt glue
- Hot stamping
- Hyphenation and Justification
- Imprint
- Ink-jet (printing)
- Insert
- ISBN
- Joints
- Kerning
- Lamination
- Leading
- Leaf
- Limp Binding
- Long Grain
- Lossless
- Lossy
- Making
- Manuscript
- Mechanical Wood Pulp
- Metallic Inks
- Mixed media paper
- Notch (burst) Binding
- Offset
- Opacity
- Orphan
- Overs
- Page
- Page-creep
- Pantone (PMS)
- Papermaking
- Paper sizes and print economy
- Perfect Binding
- Pixel
- Print On Demand (POD)
- Proof
- PUR
- Quarter bound
- Recto
- Register or Registration
- Rigidity
- Rounded Corners
- Saddle-Stitching
- Scoring
- Self-Cover
- Short Grain
- Signature
- Smyth Sewing
- Spine shape
- Spiral Binding
- Spot Colour
- Spot UV coating
- Spot Varnish
- Sprayed edges/edge staining
- Spread
- Storage of books
- Trim
- Um
- Unbacked
- Uncoated
- Variable Data Printing
- Varnish
- Vellum
- Verso
- Visable thread
- Wet proof
- Widow
- Wiro (Wir-o) binding
- X-height
- XML
- Yapp
- Zero Make-Ready Press