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Jargon Buster

A4 Book Size

A5 Book Size

A6 Book Size

Artwork

Acetate

Banner In Book Printing

Bitmap

Bleed In Book Printing

Book Binding

Booklets

Book printing jargon buster for brochures.

Brochures

Book Printing Board

BPUK

B & W

Book printing jargon buster for case bound books.

Case Bound Books

CMYK

Book printing jargon buster for coil bound books.

Coil Bound Books

Book printing jargon buster for collating.

Collating

Book printing jargon buster for copyright.

Copyright

Book printing jargon buster for crop marks.

Crop Marks

Book printing jargon buster for digital print.

Digital Print

Book printing jargon buster for downtime.

Downtime

Book printing jargon buster for dust jackets.

Dust Jacket

E-books

Book printing jargon buster for embedding fonts.

Embedding Fonts

Book printing jargon buster for end papers.

End Papers

Section heading (4)

Book printing jargon buster for finishing.

Finishing

Flyers

Book printing jargon buster for foil blocking?

Foil Blocking

Fonts

Format

Book printing jargon buster for fulfilment.

Fulfilment

Book printing jargon buster for full colour printing.

Full Colour Printing

Section heading (5)

Book printing jargon buster for gatefold.

Gatefold

Book printing jargon buster for greyscale.

Greyscale

Book printing jargon buster for guillotine.

Guillotine

Gutter

Book printing jargon buster for hardback books.

Hardback Books

Section heading (7)

Book printing jargon buster for illustration.

Illustration

Book printing jargon buster for imposition.

Imposition

Insert

ISBN

JPEG

Justify

Book printing jargon buster for laminated.

Laminated

Book printing jargon buster for landscape.

Landscape

Layout

Book printing jargon buster for lead time.

Lead Time

Book printing jargon buster for loose leaf.

Loose Leaf

Book printing jargon buster for manuscripts.

Manuscript

Margins

Page

Book printing jargon buster for pagination.

Pagination

Pantone

Book printing jargon buster for PDF proofs.

PDF Proofs

Book printing jargon buster for perfect binding.

Perfect Binding

Book printing jargon buster for portrait.

Portrait

Posters

Book printing jargon buster for printing.

Printing

Book printing jargon buster for print ready PDF.

Print Ready PDF

Proofs

Ream

Recto

Book printing jargon buster for resolution.

Resolution

Book printing jargon buster for re-prints.

Re-prints

Royal

Book printing jargon buster for saddle stitched.

Saddle Stitch or Stitched

Scanner

Book printing jargon buster for self-cover.

Self-cover

Book printing jargon buster for show through.

Show Through

Book printing jargon buster for shrink wrapping.

Shrink Wrapping

Book printing jargon buster for slim volume.

Slim Volume

Book printing jargon buster for softback.

Softback

Spine

Stock

Text

TIFF

Toner

Book printing jargon buster for trimming.

Trimming

Typo

Verso

Book printing jargon buster for wide format.

Wide Format

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