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62 Cards in this Set
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Walter Gropius |
The founder of the BauHaus in Germany |
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Lascaus Paintings |
The oldest cave painting. In Lascaux, France. About 40,000 years old. |
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Trajan's Column |
Columns in Rome that were completed in 113 A.D. Made to display public word. |
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Paper |
Invented in China in 105 A.D. |
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Parchment |
Made from animal skins. |
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Vellum |
Just like parchment, yet made with young animal skins. |
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Diamond Sutra |
The oldest known dates book. 865 A.D. |
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Johannes Gutenberg |
"Father of printing." Invents the letterpress with movable type. 1440 A.D. |
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Gutenberg Bible |
1445-1455 A.D. First book ever printed by Johannes Gutenberg. |
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Johann Faust |
He took control of Gutenberg's business. |
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William Caxton |
He prints the very first book in English in 1476 A.D. |
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Joseph Glover |
Brings printing to America. 1638 A.D. |
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Stephen Daye |
He instals Glovers printing press at Harvard College 1638 A.D. |
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Earl Stanhope |
Invented the first easier to operate iron (versus wood) letterpress in 1804 A.D. |
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Benjamin Franklin |
"The Father of Modern Printing." mid to late 1700's A.D. |
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5 Main Printing Process |
1. Relief- letterpress and flexography 2. Intaglio- Gravure 3. Planographic- Offset Lithography 4. Stencil- Screen printing 5. Digital- Digital and wide format printing |
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Relief Printing |
Printing from a raiser surface to a flat surface. |
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Intaglio Printing |
Printing from a recessed surface to a flat surface. |
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Planographic Printing |
Flat surface to a flat surface. Uses oil and water don't mix. |
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Stencil Printing |
Printing through a mesh or an opening. |
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Digital Printing |
Printing output image directly on to a blanket, plate, or substrate from an electronic file with no intermediate file or processing stage. |
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Halftone |
Continuous tone image converted to line art by tuning into a pattern dots. |
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Continuous Tone |
Artwork or photography containing shades of gray and or shades of other colors. |
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Dot Gain (Dot Spread) |
How much or how little a halftone dot spread as it hits a printing substrate. |
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LPI |
Lines per Inch |
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Line Screen |
The frequency of halftone dots expressed in LPI |
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Halftone Screens |
A piece of glass or plastic used to convert continuous tone images to a half tone representation for printing. |
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Moire Pattern |
Unwanted basket weave effects caused by superimposed regular patterns, such as halftone dots. Screens have to be set at angles to minimize this. |
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AM Screening |
Amplitude Modulated Screening. Uses different size halftones in an organized and perfect layout of lines. |
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FM Screening |
Frequency Modulated Screening. Identically sized dots that are randomly placed. |
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Registration |
Correct positioning of color separation in relation to others during printing. |
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Knock-Out |
When type or art is set against a black or flat color background. |
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Overprint |
Color printed on top of another color. |
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Trapping |
Creating overlapping areas to compensate for any misalignment during registration |
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Choke |
Trap a light background color to a dark foreground color. |
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Spread |
Trap a light foreground color to a dark background color. |
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Impression |
Process of transferring ink from a plate to paper during printing. (Impression Cylinder) |
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Cylinders |
Offset relies on roto cylinders to transfer image from plate or blanket to paper. |
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3 Cylinders on an Offset Lithography Press |
1. Plate- metal or plastic with photo sensitive emulsion on to which an image is chemically etched. 2. Blanket- intermediate rubber roller which transfers the image from plate to paper. 3. Impression- transfers ink from plate to paper. |
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Types of Rollers |
1. Inking Roller- responsible for thinning out thick ink in preparation for plate application. 2.Dampening Unit- Fountain, the container for the fountain solution. This dampens rollers in prep for plate application 3. Oscillating Roller- A roller that moves back and forth (Bucta Roller) |
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Jogging |
Vibration of paper to bring all edges into alignment |
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Offsetting/ Setoff |
When wet image sticks to the back of the next paper. |
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William Rittenhouse |
He brought paper making to the U.S.A. 1690 A.D. |
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Device used to measure the thickness of paper |
Caliper |
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The thickness of paper |
Caliper |
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PAR |
Parentsheet |
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Where was the first commercial paper making facility? |
Spain |
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How would you print a coffee mug? |
Screen printing |
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Pantone |
G7 certification |
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What is the materials of the plates we use in class? |
Polyester |
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Flexography is the modern day version of? |
Letterpress |
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Typeface is? |
The design (what it looks like) |
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Before ____________ it was difficult to print text/ graphics together. |
Offset Lithography |
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How many copies were printed of the first bible? |
180 copies |
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Why didn't China share the paper invention? |
They were a very private civilization |
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What process did the Linotype machine make faster? |
Letterpress |
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Where would you find a continuous tone image? |
A photo taken with a tradition film camera. |
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What panel in Adobe InDesign is used to convert art to knockout or overprint? |
Attributes |
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What kind of printing press is used in Art 1135? |
Offset Lithography |
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Which is not an important step when outputting printing plates to an imagesetter? |
Make sure InDesign document page size and plate size are the same. |
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What describes a font? |
Font is a complete set in one size of all letters of the alphabet. |
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What printing element is necessary to reproduce tonal artwork on an offset lithography printing press? |
Halftones |
