Xerox P8EX Spire CXP8000 Color Server - User Guide - Page 442

428 Spire CXP8000 Color Server User Guide DTP EPS Finishing stage Font Frame Frequency modulated screens Frozen job GCR Graduated blend Gravure printing Gray component Grayscale Abbreviation for Desktop Publishing. The process of page production using personal computers, off-the-shelf software and an output device such as a printer or imagesetter. Usually, these components form a system that is driven by a device-independent page description language such as PostScript. Abbreviation for Encapsulated PostScript, a graphic file format used to transfer PostScript, graphic files from one program to another. It includes both a low-resolution preview and the high resolution PostScript image description. On the Macintosh, the preview is in PICT format, on the PC it is in TIFF format. Also known as EPSF. Stage following the press process, which may include procedures such as laminating, perforating and varnishing. A complete assortment of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, characters etc. of a given design and size. A color overlap created intentionally at a color border so as to minimize the effects of misregistration. Also known as trap or grip. See also Trapping. A method of creating halftones where the spots are all the same size, but the frequency or number of dot changes in a given area. There are more dots in a dark area and fewer in a light area. A job for which the appropriate paper stock is not available, for example, the correct paper type, paper size or paper weight. Abbreviation for Gray Component Replacement. Method for reducing the CMY amounts that produce the gray component in a color, without changing the color hue. See Degradé. A printing method in which the image is engraved through a screen below the surface of a cylinder. The ink is transferred to paper when pressed to the cylinder. Gravure is used for very long print runs and on many substrates. The amounts of CMY in a color, which result in neutral gray, based on the lowest separation value of the color. See also GCR. A scale of gray tones from white to black. Digitally, grayscale images have up to 256 different levels of gray. See also 8 bit/1 byte image.