Pasteup: This is the process of preparing mechanicals. In traditional publishing, positioning and pasting type and graphics on a board. In desktop publishing it is page-assembly software that enables the user to do electronic pasteup.
Pica: A measurement used in type for column widths and other space specifications in a page layout. There are 12 points to a pica and approx 6 picas to an inch.
Pixel (picture element): The smallest unit that a device can address. It most often refers to display monitors. A pixel being the smallest spot of phosphor that can be lit up on the monitor.
PMS (Pantone Matching System): A standard color-matching system used by printers and graphic designers for inks, papers and other materials. A PMS color is a standard color defined by percentage mixtures of different primary inks and can be replicated by almost all print shops.
Point: This is a measurement used in type for type size, leading and other space specifications in a page layout. There are 12 points to a pica and approx 70 points to an inch.
Posterization: For a halftone the reduction of the number of gray scales to create a high-contrast image.
Printer font: High resolution bitmaps or font outline masters used for the actual laying down of the characters on the printed page. This is as opposed to the display on the screen.
Process color separation: in commercial printing it is used for reproduction of color photographs. The various hues are created by superimposition of halftone dots of the process colors Cyan (a greeny blue), Magenta (a purplish red), Yellow and black.
Proportionally spaced type: A typeface in which the set width (horizontal space) of characters is variable. This depends on the shape of the character itself and the characters surrounding it.
Pull quote: A brief phrase from the body text that is enlarged and set off from the rest of the text with rules a box and/or a screen. It is from a part of the text set previously and is set in the middle of a paragraph to add emphasis and interest to the subject.
Punctuation block: In right-justified or right-aligned text it is several consecutive lines that end with punctuation and make the right hand margin look uneven.
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