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What faculty do you go to?

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering

What type of charts and graphs do you know?

Line graphs, bar charts, pictographs, pie charts, cosmographs, flow charts, organisational charts.

What two types of abstracts do you know?

Informative and descriptive abstract.

How many times can you reuse paper fibres?

3-5 times.

What paper properties do you know?

Grammage, brightness, gloss, roughness, opacity, relative humidity, pH value, bulk.

What is referred to as primary, secondary and tertiary packaging +examp.?

P - the one that is closest to the product - blister


S - for branding and displaying on shelves


T - for protection and transport

What is active packaging + exampl.?

It interacts chemicaly or biologicaly with a product in order to mentain product quality for as long as possible. - Oxygen scavengers

What is intelligent packaging + example?

It interacts with the consumer, informs the user about the product or triggers active packaging functions - freshness indicators

What is the diffetence between pidments and dyes?

Pigments always require a vehicle for binding them to the substrate while dyes do not.

What two groups are colorants divided into?

Pigments and dyes.

What does lightfastness refer to? Why is it important?

It refers to the resistence of ink to light. It is important for printing money.

What two types of ink do you know?

Pigment-based and dye-based.

What are the typographic essentials?

Cap height, x-height and baseline.

What is the cap height?

It is the distance from the top of the capital letter to its bottom.

What is the x-height?

It is the height of the main body of the lowercase letter, excluding its ascenders and descenders.

What is the baseline?

It is the most stable axis along tge line of text.

What is copyfitting?

It is adjusting point size and letter spacing to make text occupy its allotted space in a harmonious fashion.

What is a dingbat?

They are decorative elements that can vary from simple bullets to delicate fauna and flora.

What is aperature?

It is the constricted opening of a glyph.

What is aesc?

It is a ligature of two letters - a and e.

What is drop cap?

It is an oversized capital letter used at the start of a paragraph that extends into two or more lines of text, it can also climb upwards.

What is diacritical?

They are accents applied to letterforms by some languagesz to enhance the function of the glyph.

What is a beak?

It is beak-shaped terminal at the top of letters such qs C, S and T.

What elements are cerfully considered in every photographic accomplishment?

Exposure, Composition, Subject and Light.

Name elements taking part in the printing process!

Pressure medium, printing plate, ink and substrate.

Name phases of the printing process!

Feeding, Inking, Printing and Delivering.

Name different printing principles and where we use them!

Flat-to-flat (in palten presses), round-to-flat (in flatbed presses) and round-to-round (in rotary presses).

In what three stages can the production media be divided into?

Prepress, press and postpress.

Name three main principles of good design!

Function, economy and beauty.

What is a widow?

It is a poor text placement where the whole paragraph is on page one, only the last line is on the top of page two.

What is an orphan?

It is a poor text placement where the first line is at the bottom of page one, while the rest is on page two.

Define conventional printing technologies!

They require a master.

Define non-impact printing technologies.

They do not require a master (are masterless).

What groups of conventional printing technologies do you know?

Relief printing, recess p., planographic p. and permeographic p.

What are the technologies called in relief printing?

Flexiographic p., letterpress and letterset.

What are the technologies called in recess printing?

Gravure, pad-transfer p., intaglio p.

What are the tehniques called in planographic printing?

Lithography and offset printing.

What are the techniques called in permeographic printing?

Screen p. and stencil p.

Define relief printing!

The printing elements on the printing plate are raised above the non-printing ones.

Define recess printing!

The printing elements are placed below the non-printing ones.

Define planographic printing!

The printing and non-printing elements are on the same level.

What are the areas that are ink-receptive and what are ink-repellent areas?

The printing areas are ink-receptive (oleophilic), while the non-printing areas are ink-repellent (oleophobic).

What is "register"?

It is the exact position of the impression on the substrate. We want our impression to be in accurate register.

What is a "signature" in printers' jargon?

It is where a sheet with several pages printed on it is bound together with other signatures to form a book, a brochure etc.

Define permeographic printing!

The printing involves closed non-image areas and open image areas.

Name the main disadvantiges of inkjet printing!

Nozzle clogging and complex drying behaviour.

What is the difference between gathering and collating?

Collating is arraging sheets one after another (for perfect binding), while gathering is putting signatures inside one another (for saddle-stitching).

Name the most common finnishing processes!

Cutting, folding, gathering/collating, perfect binding/wire-stitching, three-sided trimming.

What are the differences between 2D and 3D printing?

3D printing creates spatial objects, while 2D printing creates flat or relief surfaces with conventional or NIP technologies.

What are the origins of 3D printing?

Its origines date back to 1970, while 2D printing originates in 15th century with Guthenberg.

Bame the most common 3D printing techniques!

FDM, SLA, SLS.

Define an e-book!

It is a non-editable, reflowable book that is converted to a digital format and can be read on any digital device.

What are the problems with pdf formated books?

Pdfs are not reflowable.

What was Gutenberg's handwriting called?

Blackletter.

What effect does calendering have on paper?

It makes base paper more uniform, glossy and smooth. It makes sure paper is consistantly white.

Name the most common formats of e-books and where we use them!

AZW (for kindle e-readers), EPUB (the most widely supported format), PDF (a portable document format, technically not an e-book).