A publisher’s line of books that deals with a specific subject. For example, Crown is now an imprint of Random House that publishes current fiction.

The cylinder, covered with inked rubber, of an offset printing press. A sheet of paper picks up an impression from it. Also called a blanket cylinder.

Refers to the arrangement of printed pages of a signature being in the correct sequence and right-side up after printing, folding, and cutting.

A laser-based printer, of very high resolution, that makes prints onto photo paper. A platesetter, a similar machine, makes images onto printing plates of plastic or metal.

Begun in 1993, its goal is to establish a standardized color management system.

Letterforms which are based on the handwriting of humanists of the Italian Renaissance, and look as if they are made by a right-handed scribe holding a broad-nib pen. There are two kinds: Roman and italic.

The shade of a color that makes it different from similar tones.