Just what do we mean....?

Popular printing terms and paper sizes, and our explanation of what they mean.

	paper sizes A7 105mm x 74mm A6 148mm x 105mm A5 210mm x 148mm A4 297mm x 210mm A3 420mm x 297mm A2 594mm x 420mm A1 840mm x 594mm A0 1188mm x 840mm SRA3 450mm x 320mm

	printing terms 4/4 Pronounced '4 back 4'. This term means that a print job is printed full colour to both sides. 4/0 Pronounced '4 back nought'. This term means that a print job is printed full colour to one side only. 1/1 Pronounced '1 back 1'. This term means that a print job is printed one colour to both sides - normally just black. 1/0 Pronounced '1 back nought'. This term means that a print job is printed one colour to one side only. Paper stock This is another way to describe the weight of paper your job will be printed on. gsm This is the unit used to measure the weight of paper. For example; 90gsm is out lightest weight, 350gsm is our heaviest weight. stitch This is the common term used to describe the process of stapling a number of pages together to create a booklet. simplex Used to describe the process of printing to one side of the paper. duplex Used to describe the process of printing to two sides of the document in one pass.

	artworking terms CMYK These are the colours used in a high quality printable document. The letters stand for 'Cyan', 'Magenta', 'Yellow' and 'Black'. The mix of four colours gives a better result than a mix of three (RGB - see below) RGB RGB is the mixture of colours Red, Green and Blue. This term is best used for on-screen artwork. bleed Bleed is additional artwork over the actual size of your finished document. This assists with duplexing (see above) and trimming to size. At Dijiprint we use a 3mm 'bleed' around every side of our artwork. For example, if our finished job is to be A4 (297mm x 210mm) then we would have a document with a 3mm bleed giving a document size of 303mm x 216mm. (3mm to the top of the document, 3mm to the bottom, 3mm to the left and 3mm to the right)  crop marks or  tick marks Crop marks are thin lines that mark the actual size of the finished document. Generally, these are located 3mm inside the artwork (within the bleed). Crop marks are not placed directly onto your artwork, but a few millimeters away from the edge. DPI or Dots Per Inch. This describes the amount of dots that appear within an inch on a printed document. The more dots in an inch, the higher the quality of the finished artwork. 72dpi is the standard size for screen resolution graphics. 300dpi is the standard quality for an excellent print finish. Generally, we do not recommend printing a document of 72dpi as this gives often blocky or blurred results.