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| Copyright | Form of protection given by law to authors of literary, dramatic, musical artistic, and other similar works. |
| Counterfeiting | Making an imitation or copy of a genuine article with the intent to deceive. |
| Fair Use | Exceptions to the copyright law that allow some duplication of copyrighted materials without infringement. |
| Infringement | Using copyrighted material in such a way as to reduce the profits that would otherwise be received by the copyright holder. |
| Intaglio | Printing from below the surface |
| Relief | Printing from a raised surface |
| Doctor Blade | A knife-edged blade pressed against the etched printing cylinder to wipe away the excess ink from the non printing areas. |
| Offset | The process of printing from a flat surface with the image and non image areas kept separated by chemistry |
| Blanket | A smooth rubber surface which transfers the image from the plate to the paper during offset printing |
| Plate | A thin sheet of paper, metal, or plastic which carries the image |
| Blanket Cylinder | The cylinder which holds the rubber blanket |
| Plate Cylinder | The cylinder which holds the printing plate |
| Impression cylinder | The cylinder which applies pressure for image transfer to the paper |
| Image area | The part of the plate which repels water and carries the ink to print the image |
| Nonimage area | The part of the plate which is bathed in water and carries only the background |
| Ink fountain | The part of the press that stores and supplies ink to the ink rollers |
| Water fountain | That part of the offset press that stores and supplies water to the dampening rollers |
| Press sheet | Receives the right-reading image from the blanket |
| Perfecting press | A printing press that prints both sides of the sheet in one pass |
| Sheet-fed press | A printing press that takes individual sheets of paper |
| Web-feed press | A press that prints from a roll of paper. |
| Single color press | A press that prints only one color at a time |
| Multi-color press | A press that can print more than one color on a single pass through the press. Multi color presses come in 2, 4, or 6 color versions |
| Digitial printing | Any reproduction technology that receives electronic files and uses spots for replication |
