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Glossary Of Printing Terms [13]

T Table Tents Self-standing promotional units created from printed and folded cardstock. As the name implies, table tents are designed to be placed on tables and other horizontal surfaces such as desks and counters.
Target Ink Densities Densities of the four process inks as recommended for various printing processes and grades of paper.
Thermal printing A digital printing process which produces a printed image by selectively heating coated thermal paper as it is commonly known, when the paper passes over the thermal print head. Thermal printers are more quiet, smaller and faster than impact dot matrix printers. Thanks to these properties, they are ideal for commercial applications such as filling station pumps, information kiosks, point of sale systems, voucher printers in slot machines, and so on.
Thermography A process of writing or printing involving the use of heat. In printing, it especially refers to a raised-printing process in which matter printed by letterpress is dusted with powder and heated to make the lettering rise.
Thermoprinting A digital printing process which produces a printed image by selectively heating coated thermochromic paper, or thermal paper as it is commonly known, when the paper passes over the thermal print head. The coating turns black in the areas where it is heated, producing an image. Two-colour direct thermal printers can print both black and an additional colour (often red) by applying heat at two different temperatures. Commercial applications of thermal printers include filling station pumps, information kiosks, point of sale systems, voucher printers in slot machines, print on demand labels for shipping and products, and for recording live rhythm strips on hospital cardiac monitors.
Thumbnails Reduced-size versions of pictures or videos, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words.
Tip In A page that is printed separately from the main text of the book, but attached to the book.
Tone Compression Reduction in the tonal range from original scene to printed reproduction.
Touch Plate A means of adding extra-trinary colors to process color printing. A touch plate consists of a plate of a special color beyond the traditional cyan, magenta, or yellow. Touch plates are used to reproduce a color which is out of the gamut of CMY mixing, used especially to reproduce a unique color in the original artwork.
Trade Shop A company that specializes in scanning images and delivering color separated films.
Transfer Printing A method of decorating enamels or ceramics using an engraved copper or steel plate from which a monochrome print on paper is taken which is then transferred by pressing onto the ceramic piece.
Trap The ability of a printed ink to accept the next printed ink compared to how well paper accepts that ink.
Trim Size The final size of a printed page after excess edges have been cut off.