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Slitting is the cutting of printed sheets into two or more sections with a cutting wheel.
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.
Process colors are the colors involved in offset or four-color printing: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (Black).
Print quality simply refers to the overall quality of a printed piece. Is the color accurate, is the binding durable, was the trimming accurate?