Book Printing Terms
Understand color, image, and reproduction terms used in print files.
CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (Key), which are four main ink colors that will be used in most printin...
Pantone is a standardized color matching system used in printing and design to ensure color consistency across materials...
LPI stands for Lines Per Inch, a printing term that describes the fineness of halftone screens used to reproduce images....
Halftone is a way of turning photos or shaded artwork into tiny dots so they can be printed with solid ink. Printing pre...
In offset printing, each ink color (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) is halftoned at a slightly different angle. This preve...
Moiré is a visual distortion that looks like wavy lines, ripples, or interference across an image. It happens when two r...
It is a flower-like texture that appears when CMYK halftone dots overlap at different angles. Each color is set at its o...
