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Measurements and Conversion Tables

Enlargement and reduction scale:

	A7	A6	A5	A4	A3	A2	A1	A0	2A
	74mm x 105mm	105mm x 148mm	148mm x 210mm	210mm x 297mnm	297mm x 420mm	420mm x 594mm	594mm x 841mm	841mm x 1189mm	1189mm x 11682mm
A7 >	-	141.8%	200%	282.9%	400%	565.7%	800.9%	1132.4%	1601.9%
A6 >	70.9%	-	141.8%	200.7%	283.8%	401.4%	568.2%	803.4%	1136.5%
A5 >	50%	70.4%	-	141.4%	200%	282.9%	400.5%	566.2%	800.9%
A4 >	35.3%	49.8%	70.7%	-	141.4%	200%	283.2%	400.3%	566.3%
A3 >	25%	35.2%	50%	70.7%	-	141.4%	200.2%	283.1%	400.5%
A2 >	17.7%	24.9%	35.4%	50%	70.7%	-	141.6%	200.2%	283.2%
A1 >	12.5%	17.6%	24.9%	35.3%	49.9%	70.6%	-	141.4%	200%

Paper sizes:

Envelopes

Sizes available in banker shape		Sizes available in pocket shape
C6	114 x 162mm	C6	162 x 114mm	B6/C4	324 x 125mm
DL	110 x 220mm	B6	176 x 215mm	C4	324 x 229mm
Maxi DL	115 x 230mm	E6	200 x 140mm	Db4	353 x 136mm
	120 x 235mm	DL	220 x 110mm	B4	353 x 250mm
C5	162 x 229mm	C5	229 x 162mm	E4	400 x 280mm
C4	229 x 324mm	B5	250 x 176mm	C3	458 x 324
B4	250 x 353mm	E5	280 x 200mm

Printer's marks

Printing printer's marks lets you display information on a page about how a work should be printed. The available printer's marks are as follows:   Crop/fold marks: represent the size of the paper and print at the corners of the page. You can print crop/fold marks to use as guides to trim the paper. Composite crop/fold marks ensure that marks appear on each separation plate of the imported CMYK file   Bleed limit: determines how far an image can extend beyond the crop marks. When you use bleed to extend the print job to the edge of the page, you must set a bleed limit. A bleed limit requires the paper you are printing on is larger than the size of paper you ultimately want.   Colour calibration bars: are colour scales that print on each sheet of colour and ensure accurate color reproduction. To see calibration bars, the page size of the print job must be larger than the page size you are printing.   Densitometer scale: is a series of gray boxes ranging from light to dark. These boxes are required to test the density of halftone images. You can also customize the levels of gray that appear in each of the seven squares on the densitometer scale.   Page Numbers: helps you collate pages of an image that do not include any page numbers or do not contain page numbers that correspond to the actual number of pages.   File information: prints file information, such as, the colour profile; haltone settings; name, date and time the image was created; plate number and job name.

Glossary of terms - printing

Blind embossing
A design stamped without metallic leaf or ink, giving bas-relief effect

 

Bond paper
Good quality paper used for stationary, forms and other documents having a basic weight of more than 60 grams per square meter, often containing a watermark.

 

Coated paper
Paper with a shiny, glossy or very smooth finish used in printing. These papers absorb printing ink less than uncoated papers. This characteristic must be accounted for in the pre-press process.

 

Die-cutting
The use of a sharp steel rule to cut special shapes from printed sheets

 

Dummy
A model of the printed product produced prior to publication to show as far as possible, the size, shape and major features as a guide to production .

 

Embossing
The deformation of paper or board by means of a die and a force to dorm a raised image

 

Foil Stamping
The application of metallic or metallised images to a substrate by means of a heated relief block and controlled pressure

 

Gate fold
In magazine production, a type of fold in which a double width page or pair of pages is turned inward from the fore-edges thus opening out at the appropriate places.

 

Grain
The direction in which most fibers lie which corresponds with the direction the paper is made

 

Grammage
The weight of paper expressed in grams per square meter (gsm, gm2)

 

Lamination
A plastic film bonded by heat and pressure to a printed sheet for either protection or appearance

 

Leaf

A sheet of a book , containing two pages one on each side, thus a section of a book containing 32 leaves has 64 pages.

 

Overprinting
Printing over areas already printed. Contrast knockout.

 

PantoneR
An international system of designating colours for printing and other purposes, based on mixing and matching a few standard pigments.

 

Perfect Binding

A book in which the boards of the cover have first been attached to the book by a style of threadless binding in which the leaves of a book are held together at the binding edge by glue or synthetic adhesive and a suitable lining.

 

PMS
(Pantone Matching System) a commonly used system for identifying specific ink colours.

 

Press proof
An actual printed sample of how a job will look when printed with similar, if not identical printing presses and conditions.

 

Proof
A visual interpretation of the image to be printed produced either from printing plates or a press proof, film overlays or other pre-press techniques or on a visual display unit.

 

Ream
Five hundred sheets of paper

 

Register
Fitting two or more printing images on the same paper in exact alignment with each other.

 

Saddle-stitch/wire
To fasten a booklet by wiring saddle-wire through the middle of the fold.

 

Set-off
The unwanted transfer of ink from a printed sheet to the underside of the next sheet in the delivery

 

Uncoated paper
Paper without a glossy or shiny finish. Uncoated papers absorb more ink than coated papers and the images require appropriate compensation for this output to film or printing.

 

Varnishing

to apply oil, synthetic, spirit, cellolose or water varnish to printed matter by hand or machine to enhance its appearance or to increase its durabiity.