Gripper is a printing term that doesn’t seem that important for your print design. But it is important to your printer, so what does it mean? You have a great vision of your design, you’ve worked it all out in InDesign. You’ve chosen your PMS colors, searched through tons of paper samples, and made…
Aside from it being what we root for Danny Briere to do every night, scoring paper is an important consideration in many printing jobs. And it’s something we deal with at cutpasteandprint when we are finishing your printed brochures, cards or catalogs. As a printing term scoring paper is a way of preparing a sheet…
Welcome to the first in a series of mini-lessons on printer’s terminology. We’ll start with Bleed a classic term that we get questioned about here at the shop all the time. Okay, to start, don’t panic. Despite this seemingly menacing name, no one will be getting hurt in this explanation – we think. Bleed is…
It’s a 2 over 1 with black and 2 PMS. It’s a work and turn on a coated sheet with bleed. And we’ll need a die for a kiss-cut. Printer’s terms are many, varied, and most of all complicated. Today we start a series of blog posts to clear up what they mean, and how…
