Page
One side of a sheet; 2pp means two printed pages which is one sheet.
Printing Glossary
Baffled by the jargon some printers use? Let us explain what all those terms mean...
Pagination
Numerical sequence of pages in a book.
Panel
One side of a folded section in a leaflet or brochure.
Pantone Matching System (PMS)
A widely used colour-matching system.
Papermaking
The process of making paper.
Parallel Fold
A fold that runs parallel to another fold or a particular edge, in a leaflet or brochure.
Perfect bind
An adhesive-binding method; hot-melt adhesive is applied to the spine of the book block before the cover is attached.
Perforate
Punching a line of very small holes so that paper can be torn more easily along a along a predetermined line.
Permanent paper
Paper produced from pulp containing little or no acid. Permanent paper has a greater endurance than regular paper and is also known as acid-free paper, alkaline paper, archival paper, neutral pH paper and thesis paper.
Pixel
Short for picture element; the smallest unit of a graphic image.
Pixelation
A low-resolution image in which the individual pixels comprise the image, are visible to the eye. A picture that this has happened to has been pixelated.
Plate
A metal, plastic or paper light-sensitive sheet, carrying an image to be reproduced using a printing press.
