During the setup of your document any art going to the edge of the page will need to go off (bleed off) the page by at least 3mm, not stop at page edge in order to print correctly.

Printed using just 4 ink colours; Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black. Used for Litho printing.

Lines that mark the edge of the page to trim too. Also called cut marks and tic marks.

This process involves the use of a tool (or die) to cut a specific shape out of a printed sheet. Presentation folders are a good example.

Dots per square inch, a measure of output resolution in relationship to printers, imagesetters and monitors.

Best suited to short-run jobs, digital printing is a cost-effective printing method that works directly from electronic data without any need for printing plates.

Involves the impression of a design onto paper, so that the design appears as a raised effect. Debossing might sound like what happens when your manager gets fired, but it refers to the opposite of embossing. In other words, the design is indented.

(same as four colour, full colour or process colour) printed using just 4 ink colours; Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black. Use for Litho printing.

The centre, folded area of a brochure

“grams per square metre” and refers to the weight of paper

Computer monitors make all their colours using three (light) colours; Red, Green, and Blue. Digital use and printing. NOT for Litho printing

Additional printed matter beyond order.

To bind sheets that have been ground at the spine and are held to the cover by glue. Also called adhesive bind, cut-back bind, glue bind, paper bind, patent bind, perfecting bind, soft bind and soft cover.

Short for Portable Document Format. PDF is a digital file format that was designed to make it possible for viewers to open and view for digital proofing.

Obsolete reference to Pantone Matching System. The correct trade name of the colours in the Pantone Matching System is Pantone colours, not PMS Colours.

500 sheets of paper.

Self-Cover refers to a job that the cover is included in the page count. Example: 16 pages self-cover has 16 total pages.