Pantone Matching System (PMS)

Pantone, Inc. developed the Pantone Matching System as a proprietary color space system designed to help consumers and businesses create uniform colors across projects and between vendors. The color matching system typically has two components: digital colors and physical color cards. When design ... Read More

Photogravure

A high-end but obscure form of printing, photogravure reproduces images that have been etched into a copper plate. This produces smooth, flowing lines rather than dots as seen in standard screen or digital printing. Fine art pieces are still reproduced using photogravure techniques, but the method a ... Read More

Pixels per Inch

Pixels per inch is a method of describing how many points of light a computer monitor or other display technology can emit within the space of a square inch. Other technologies to which pixels per inch may refer include digital cameras and scanning devices for converting photographs into digital ... Read More

Plastic Printing

Plastic printing is a modern trend in print advertising in which marketing materials are reproduced onto thin plastic substrates.  Recent innovations in technology have made this printing format affordable.  Most printing firms use plastic stock that is between 0.012” and .015” – ... Read More

PostScript

Adobe Systems, Inc. developed a printing language called PostScript which enables any software that has a printing function to output a file that most printers can read. What is significant about PostScript (PS) is that it is an object oriented language (OOL) that treats fonts, text, and images a ... Read More

Progressive Proof

Any form of reproducing a proof using the separate colors (CMYK or RGB) of the final image is generally referred to as a progressive proof or progressive proof process. A common example is an overlay proof where the separate colors are exposed to film and overlaid onto white paper. Because all of ... Read More