Offset Printing

The process of transferring ink from a series of four rubber plates to paper or other medium is referred to as offset printing. The four rubber plates are the four primary colors of ink that are used to reproduce full color images. These four colors of ink are cyan, magenta, yell ... Read More

Orphan
The text at the end of a paragraph that is only a partial word or a small word is considered an orphan. These partial or small words are visually distracting. Typographers argue that orphans cause extra white space between paragraphs which reduces the readability of the text.  The visual flo ... Read More

Overlay Proof

An overlay proof is a simple method of ensuring that the color separation process has produced the appropriate plates for the four-color printing process. Before actually developing the plates to begin printing with a press, printers may expose the four color separations to light sensitive film a ... Read More

Overprint

When two images overlap on a single sheet of paper, the top image typically knocks out the lower image, but when both images are intentionally printed this is called an overprint. An overprint can be a choice of style or of practical use. For example, printers often have to choke images to make sure ... Read More