Lexicons – Week 4

1. Signature – One large sheet with multiple pages printed on both sides. When a signature is folded, trimmed, and bound, you can create a booklet.

2. Hickey Picker – When particles of dust land on a page as it is being printed, it compromises the quality of the print job. A Hickey Picker picks these pieces of dust off the page.

3. DPI – Dots per inch. The higher the DPI number, the clearer your image will be. Since printing is just putting dots on a page in 4 different colors, the more dots the better. If you have a low DPI, the dots will be more spread out, causing the image to be blurry or grainy.

4. Bleed – When the print ink goes all the way to the end of the page, with no white border. Example: magazine pages