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Any binding and finishing operations, or any operation performed on printed material following printing. See Binding and Finishing.
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Binding and Finishing
Binding and finishing are those activities performed on printed material after printing. Binding involves the fastening of individual sheets together, while finishing involves additional decorative actions, such as die-stamping, embossing,
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Binding Varnish
A highly viscous substance used as a bodying agent in the manufacturing of printing ink, or to strengthen the dry ink film. (See Bodying Agent.)
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Bit
A contraction of the term “‘bi’nary digi’t’,” the smallest piece of information used by a computer, consisting of either the number 1 or 0. A computer processor is essentially a
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Bit Depth
Alternate term for color depth. See Color Depth.
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Bit Map
In computer graphics, the collection of individual dots—or pixels—that make up a screen image. Bitmapped, or raster, images are defined as a series of dots. At the lowest color depth, 1-Bit color, each dot is
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Bit Map Font
In digital type, a set of typographic characters that exist as bit maps—or a collection of dots—rather than as outlines or mathematical descriptions of lines and curves (outline fonts). Bit map
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Bit Map Format
A particular type of graphics file format used for saving bit map graphics. Some common bit map file formats are TIFF, BMP, PCX, PIC, GIF, and TGA.
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Bitonal
In graphics and imaging, a computer graphic or image comprising only two tonal values, which can be represented by a 1 or a 0, often simply black and white. Also
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Bits Per Inch
The number of bits that can be stored in one linear inch, used as a measure of the density of magnetic storage media. See also Characters Per Inch.
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