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What faculty do you go to? |
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering |
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What type of charts and graphs do you know? |
Line graphs, bar charts, pictographs, pie charts, cosmographs, flow charts, organisational charts. |
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What two types of abstracts do you know? |
Informative and descriptive abstract. |
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How many times can you reuse paper fibres? |
3-5 times. |
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What paper properties do you know? |
Grammage, brightness, gloss, roughness, opacity, relative humidity, pH value, bulk. |
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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 |
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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 |
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What is intelligent packaging + example? |
It interacts with the consumer, informs the user about the product or triggers active packaging functions - freshness indicators |
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What is the diffetence between pidments and dyes? |
Pigments always require a vehicle for binding them to the substrate while dyes do not. |
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What two groups are colorants divided into? |
Pigments and dyes. |
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What does lightfastness refer to? Why is it important? |
It refers to the resistence of ink to light. It is important for printing money. |
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What two types of ink do you know? |
Pigment-based and dye-based. |
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What are the typographic essentials? |
Cap height, x-height and baseline. |
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What is the cap height? |
It is the distance from the top of the capital letter to its bottom. |
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What is the x-height? |
It is the height of the main body of the lowercase letter, excluding its ascenders and descenders. |
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What is the baseline? |
It is the most stable axis along tge line of text. |
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What is copyfitting? |
It is adjusting point size and letter spacing to make text occupy its allotted space in a harmonious fashion. |
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What is a dingbat? |
They are decorative elements that can vary from simple bullets to delicate fauna and flora. |
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What is aperature? |
It is the constricted opening of a glyph. |
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What is aesc? |
It is a ligature of two letters - a and e. |
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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. |
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What is diacritical? |
They are accents applied to letterforms by some languagesz to enhance the function of the glyph. |
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What is a beak? |
It is beak-shaped terminal at the top of letters such qs C, S and T. |
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What elements are cerfully considered in every photographic accomplishment? |
Exposure, Composition, Subject and Light. |
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Name elements taking part in the printing process! |
Pressure medium, printing plate, ink and substrate. |
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Name phases of the printing process! |
Feeding, Inking, Printing and Delivering. |
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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). |
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In what three stages can the production media be divided into? |
Prepress, press and postpress. |
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Name three main principles of good design! |
Function, economy and beauty. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Define conventional printing technologies! |
They require a master. |
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Define non-impact printing technologies. |
They do not require a master (are masterless). |
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What groups of conventional printing technologies do you know? |
Relief printing, recess p., planographic p. and permeographic p. |
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What are the technologies called in relief printing? |
Flexiographic p., letterpress and letterset. |
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What are the technologies called in recess printing? |
Gravure, pad-transfer p., intaglio p. |
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What are the tehniques called in planographic printing? |
Lithography and offset printing. |
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What are the techniques called in permeographic printing? |
Screen p. and stencil p. |
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Define relief printing! |
The printing elements on the printing plate are raised above the non-printing ones. |
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Define recess printing! |
The printing elements are placed below the non-printing ones. |
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Define planographic printing! |
The printing and non-printing elements are on the same level. |
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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). |
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What is "register"? |
It is the exact position of the impression on the substrate. We want our impression to be in accurate register. |
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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. |
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Define permeographic printing! |
The printing involves closed non-image areas and open image areas. |
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Name the main disadvantiges of inkjet printing! |
Nozzle clogging and complex drying behaviour. |
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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). |
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Name the most common finnishing processes! |
Cutting, folding, gathering/collating, perfect binding/wire-stitching, three-sided trimming. |
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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. |
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What are the origins of 3D printing? |
Its origines date back to 1970, while 2D printing originates in 15th century with Guthenberg. |
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Bame the most common 3D printing techniques! |
FDM, SLA, SLS. |
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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. |
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What are the problems with pdf formated books? |
Pdfs are not reflowable. |
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What was Gutenberg's handwriting called? |
Blackletter. |
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What effect does calendering have on paper? |
It makes base paper more uniform, glossy and smooth. It makes sure paper is consistantly white. |
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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). |