Week 14a- Print Ready Design-Layout Terms

Serif Font: A small decorative line added as embellishment to the basic form of a character. Typefaces are often described as being serif or sans serif (without serifs). The most common serif typeface is Times Roman.
Sans-Serif Font: A category of typefaces that do not use serifs, small lines at the ends of characters. Popular sans serif fonts include Helvetica, Avant Garde,Arial, and Geneva. Serif fonts include Times Roman, Courier, New Century Schoolbook, andPalatino. According to most studies, sans serif fonts are more difficult to read.

Margin: The edge or border of something.

Illustrator Guides: Allows you to choose where you want to print.

Bleed: a printing term that refers to printing that goes beyond the edge of the sheet before trimming. In other words, the bleed is the area to be trimmed off. The bleed is the part on the side of a document that gives the printer a small amount of space to account for movement of the paper, and design inconsistencies. Artwork and background colors can extend into the bleed area. After trimming, the bleed ensures that no unprinted edges occur in the final trimmed document.

CYMK: The CMYK color model (process color, four color) is a subtractive color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself. CMYK refers to the four inks used in some color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black).

Image Resolution: Resolution refers to the number of pixels in an image. Resolution is sometimes identified by the width and height of the image as well as the total number of pixels in the image. For example, an image that is 2048 pixels wide and 1536 pixels high (2048X1536) contains (multiply) 3,145,728 pixels (or 3.1 Megapixels).

Print Copy: (publishing) a copy of (a book, story, etc) made from trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) for the correction of errors.

ArtBoard: Artboards are a unique and powerful feature of Illustrator. The artboard works just like a piece of paper would on a physical desk. For example, if you were creating a collage, you could put elements you are not currently using on your desk outside of the bounds of the paper.

Registration Mark: Registration marks print outside the trim area of printing. They can include bulls-eye targets, crop marks, plate information, etc. Thesemarks allow the printer to accurately align separate letterpress plates for multiple color print jobs and better align cuts when trimming.

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