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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.

Show-through is when the ink printed on the front of a paper shows through to the back side of the paper. The thicker the paper, the more opacity, the less show-through.

Sheetwise is printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. The first side is printed with one plate, then the paper is turned over and printed on using another.

Self-Cover (soft cover) is when the cover and the inside paper are the same weight. We recommend 100# Text (Gloss or Matte) for both the inside and cover paper.

Cutting of your printing piece is done in large stacks and may vary from the top and the bottom of the stack. The safe area or inner margin in which to keep all important elements within to prevent them from trimming off, should be at least 1/8″ inside the edge of the final trim size.

Process printing is printing that requires multiple layers of halftone plates to produce full color images.