11-17-09

megahertz- frequency equal to one million cycles per second. measure bandwidth or along electronic signals.

mottle- the spotty or uneven appereance of printing, mostly in solid areas

11-15-09

magenta- hue of a subtractive primary and for-colored process ink. It reflects or transmits blue and red light and absorbs green light.

magnetic storage- any disc, film, tape, drum or cone that is used to store digital information.

mechanical- a term for a camera-ready paste up for a artwork. it includes type, photos, line art, ect. all on one peice of artboard.

 

11-13-09

logotype- the name of a company or product in a special design used as a trademark in advertising

lowercase- the small letters in type, as distinguished from the capital letters

lpl- acronym from the lines per inch

M- abbreviation for mega. which is commonly used to mean one  million. the computer terminology, however, M refered to the number 1,048,576

11-12-09

LED- that are used in place of lasers for some output systems.

ledger paper- a garde of business paper generally  used for keeping records where it is subjected to appreciable were to require a high degree of durability of performance.

letterspacing- the placing of additional space between each letter of a word.

line copy- any copy suitable for reproduction without using a halftone screen.

VOCAB 11-10-09

layout- the drawing or sketch of a proposed printed piece. in platemaking, a sheet inicating the setting for a step-and-repeat machine.

 

11-9-09

lamination- a plastic film bonded by heat and pressure to a printed sheet for protection of apperance

LAN- communication link in a localized area, such as an office, building or campus, with technology  hat provides  a high-bandwitch, lowcost medium to witch many computers node can be connected.

11-06-09

keyboard- the input devise to input information directly into a typesetter, computer, workstation, or, as a stand-alone unit, to record it on a paper or a magnetic tape

keyline- in artwork outline drawing or finished art to indocate the exact shape, position, and for such elements as a halfstone, line and sketches

kllobyte- 1024 bytes, the most common measure of computer file length.

vocab 11-01-09

HTML- in image for world wide web, the coding language that is used to create hypertext documents for use on the world wide web.

HUE- in color, the main attrbute of a color which distinguished it from other colors.

HYPERTEXT- links to other documents. words or phrases in the document that are so defined that they can be selected and then caused another document to be retreived, opened, and displayed.

VACAB 10-29

hard proof- a proof on paper or other substrates as distinguished from a soft proof which is an image on a vtd screen

hardware- computer and peripherals as distinguished from software which is a program for operating hardware

head margin- the white space above the first line on the page

hickeys- in offset lithography, spots of inperfections in the printing due to dirt on press, dried ink skin paper particles, ect.

VOCAB 10-28

Gum Arabic- in offset lithgraphy, used in platemaking and on press to protect the non-printing areas and plates.

Gutter- the blank space or inner margin from printing area to blinding.

Hairline Register- register with a +/_1/2 row of dots.

Halftone- the reproduction of continuous-tone images, through a screeing process, which converts the imag into dots of various sizes and equal spacing between centers or dots of equal size with variable spacinbg between them.