Glossary of terms:

There are a lot of terms that have been adopted by the printing industry. Hopefully the glossary below will help.

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• JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)

A raster file format that has a standard for the compression of the images. See also Raster format

• L*A*B* (Lab or cielab Colour)

A scientific 3D XYZ space that describes how the average human eye sees colour. Used as a conversion table in colour management. More advanced description here

• Leading Edge Effect (LEE)

A print error where an empty strip appears following a blank section or solid colour. To overcome this select Stochastic dot pattern in your rip software.

• Linearization

Refers to the calibration of a device - creating even density steps from 0-100% in each colour. This can be visually viewed in some software as a straight line for each colour, hence linearization or lined up.

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