- Tack:
The stickiness of an ink. Tack is the relative measurement of the cohesion of an ink representing its resistance to splitting between two rapidly separating surfaces.
- Tagged Files:
A file that has a profile attached to it.
- Tagged Image File Format (TIFF):
TIFF is a flexible bitmap image format supported by virtually all graphic editing and page layout applications. It is typically used for formatting the resulting files of scanned images such as photographs, illustrations and logos due to its capability to enable files to be exchanged between applications and computer platforms. The TIFF format supports CMYK, RGB, and grayscale files with alpha channels, and Lab, indexed-color, and bitmap files without alpha channels.
- Tape Backup:
File storage and transfer medium used for protecting and transferring files.
- Template:
A standard layout usually containing basic details of the page dimensions.
- Text Stock:
Paper stock used for the pages of reports and books. Text stock is described by pound weight determined by the weight of 500 25 X 38 inch sheets. For example, 500 sheets of 80-lb. text stock cut 25 X 38 inches weighs 80 pounds (standard US text pound).
- Thumbnails:
The first ideas or sketches of a designer noted down for future reference.
- Tint:
A solid color reduced either by screening or by adding white ink.
- Tone Compression:
Reduction of the original tonal range in an image to a tonal range that is achievable through the reproduction process.
- Touch Plate:
An additional printing plate that adds a matched color to a process.
- Transpose:
To exchange the position of a letter, word, or line with another letter, word, or line.
- Trap:
1) In printing, the ability to print a wet ink film over previously printed ink. 2) In pre-press, trap refers to the amount of overlap needed to eliminate white lines between colors.
- Trapping:
1) A technique in which abutting colors are slightly overlapped to minimize the effects of misaligned registration of printing plates. 2) On a press, the way various colors of ink adhere to one another when wet versus the way one layer of ink adheres to the paper.
- Trim Marks:
Marks that indicate where a piece is to be cut.
- Trim Size :
The final size of a book after binding and trimming.
- Trim:
To cut the excess paper from the edges of a press sheet. In proofing to cut down a proof to a specific size.
- Tritone:
A black and white image printed with three screens of three colors, such as blacks plus two spot colors; used to add depth and expand the contrast between light and dark areas of image.
- TrueType Fonts:
A registered trademark for an outline font format with built-in screen and printer fonts.
- Type Face:
A style or design of type encompassing shape, weight and proportions that make it distinct from other type faces.
- Type Family:
All sizes and weights of basic type design; members may vary in weight, width, or other treatment. For example, a family may include roman, italic, extended and boldface treatments of a type face. (Also called font family.)
- Typesetting:
The process of setting material in type or into a form to be used in printing.