Sunday, June 10, 2007

Finnel Final

I take NO responsibility for any errors!
  • cap height is 65-75% off the point size
  • sans serif
  • formal script face, ie wedding invitation
  • informal- ie handwriting
  • slab serif face-ie Rockwell
  • Three categories of serif 1. Modern-most dif between thick and thin ie Bodoni 2. Old Style-lease dif between thick and thin ie Berkely 3. Transitional-in between-ie Baskerville
  • Display Faces- Specialty faces ie Crackhouse
  • ITC Garamond: larger proportional x-height to cap height
  • Cap height-height of capital letter
  • X-height-heigh of lower case letter
  • Ascender/Descender-above and below
  • M-Space-size of the font
  • Pi-Font- dingbats
  • Preflight-check for fonts, resolution etc
  • Distortion on soup can-distort-arc with a negative value
  • Package- gather together all elements of file in one folder
  • Plug in-adds features that the program doesnt have
  • If you not packaging images, send a high res PDF
  • Basic rule for determing the effection resolution of a psd image 1.5-2xLPI, .5LPI
  • Paper is the most expensive part of a printing job
  • Dot Gain- tendency of ink to spread
  • Newsprint paper is the cheapest paper
  • Weight of a ream of paper of a standard size sheet is known as basis weight
  • Grain- the direction of paper fiber alignment. Best to fold paper in the direction of the grain for a smooth fold
  • Smallest to largest order- Safety, Trim, Bleed
  • Smallest to largest order- point, pica, inchprinting job that requires 150LPI- psd image needs to have a resolution of 600
  • Contract proof- Prepress proof used to ensure correct colorGood campaign does not need to have the same size ad
  • Saddle stitching

1 comment:

aidelmaidel said...

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