printing process

Noun
  1. Reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication (synset 106690047)
    associated with:
    • printing - the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution
    • hair space - (printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters
    • quad, space - (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
    • impression, printing - all the copies of a work printed at one time
    • proof, test copy, trial impression - (printing) an impression made to check for errors
    • ascender - (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters
    • descender - (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters
    • serif, seriph - a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character
    • word processing - rapid and efficient processing (storage and printing) of linguistic data for composition and editing
    • white out - widen the interlinear spacing by inserting leads
    • underlay - raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type
    • kern - remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters)
    • kern - furnish with a kern
    • live - in current use or ready for use
    • justified - having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins
    • leaded - having thin strips of lead between the lines of type
    • unleaded - not having leads between the lines
    • superior, superscript - written or printed above and to one side of another character
    • inferior, subscript - written or printed below and to one side of another character
    • adscript - written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it
    is a type of: writing - letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language
    subtypes:
    • composition, typography - art and technique of printing with movable type
    • letterpress, relief printing - printing from a plate with raised characters
    • gravure, intaglio, intaglio printing - a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print
    • process printing - a method of printing colored reproductions from halftone plates
    • planographic printing, planography - the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent)
    • offset, offset printing - a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
    • carbon process - a process of printing on paper coated with bichromated gelatin containing pigment
    same as: printing

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