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Toner, as opposed to ink, is used in digital printing and is a dry, powdery substance that is fried to the paper during the printing process.

Tolerances in printing are the acceptable variations in printing parameters such as registration, stock thickness, dot size, etc.

Text paper, or book paper, refers to the thinner paper typically used for the inside pages of books and booklets.

The final size of the document after the last cut is made.

Substrate is any material that can be printed on including plastic.

Stock is the term for paper to be printed on.

Spreads refer to a set of adjacent facing pages on the inside of a book or booklet.

The spine is the bound edge of a printed book or booklet.

Slitting is the cutting of printed sheets into two or more sections with a cutting wheel.

A signature is a printed sheet of paper after it has been folded.