Glossary of Terms
We take great pride in making our clients feel confident about their jobs during the production process. To help you gain a better understanding of what’s happening with your project, we’ve compiled a glossary of terms that we commonly use in our industry.
Glossary of Commonly Used Industry Terms
There are currently 23 names in this directory beginning with the letter G.
Galley
(old) flat oblong tray into which composed type matter is put and kept until made up into pages in the forme. Also a similar tray on a slug composing machine which receives the slugs as they are ejected. Also a long column of composed text matter
Gang
Group of frames or impositions in the same forme of different jobs arranged and positioned to be printed together.
Ghosting
Image which appears as a lighter area on a subsequent print due to local blanket depressions from previous image areas on a letterpress rotary machine as well as on an offset press.
Gilding
Sticking on gold leaf to edges of books with a liquid agent and made permanent with burnishing tools.
Goldenrod
An orange colored paper with gridlines, used to assemble materials for exposure for platemaking.
Graduated Screen
An area of image where halftone dots range continuously from one density to another.
Grain
Direction of fibers in a sheet of paper governing paper properties such as increased size changes with relative humidity, across the grain, and better folding properties along the grain.
Gravure
An intaglio or recessed printing process. The recessed areas are like wells that form the image as paper passes through.
Gripper
A series of metal fingers that hold each sheet of paper as it passes through the various stages of the printing process.
Gripper Edge
The grippers of the printing press move the paper through the press by holding onto the leading edge of the sheet; this edge is the gripper edge.