1. Overview of Graphic Communications

2. Graphic Communications

3. The exchange of information in visual form using, words, drawings, photographs and a combination of these is called?

4. Editing

5. The final preparation of the author’s or writer’s manuscript for publication is called?

6. Photo Conversion

7. Uses light to place the original image onto a light-sensitive material, what is it?

8. The Printing Processes

9. Relief Printing

10. The oldest Printing Method is Called?

11. The two Relief printing methods?

12. Letterpress and Flexography

13. LetterPress

14. This printing process uses raised Metal plates or individual letters and is seldom used today except as a hobby.

15. Flexography

16. This printing process uses a flexible plastic or synthetic plate with a relief or raised image to print on a substrate

17. Printing

18. Uses a specialized machine to transfer an image from an image carrier to a substrate, usually paper is called?

19. Offset Printing/Lithography

20. -Based on the concept oil and water do not mix
-Based on the concept oil and water do not mix. -Image areas of the printing plate accept ink and repel water; nonimage areas accept water.

21. Gravure Printing

22. -The image area is sunken into the image carrier

23. Screen Printing

24. -A stencil process, in which an image carrier is attached to a screen and ink is forced through the open mesh areas.

25. Imapactless Printing

26. -Does not require direct contact between an image carrier and the substrate. -Inkjet printers and photocopiers are examples of impactless printing

27. Binding and Finishing

28. Binding

29. -The process of joining together multiple pages of a printed product by various means including: -sewing -Stapling -spiral wire -adhesives

30. -Folding-required when a large sheet contains two or more pages of a product -Scoring-the creasing of a heavier sheet of paper to assist in folding

31. -Collating-the process of placing pages in the right sequence -Stitching-is a stapling process -Trimming-the cutting of material after printing to produce even edges

32. Finishing

33. -Various processes that enhance the final printed product The most common are: -Embossing -Die-Cutting -Stamping -Lamination

34. Embossing-Produces a raised design on paper or other material
Embossing-Produces a raised design on paper or other material. Die-Cutting-Uses blades to cut paper or other materials into irregular designs.

35. Stamping-Applying a metal foil to almost any type of material, such as leather, paper, or cloth. Lamination-the process of bonding plastic film, by heat and pressure, to a sheet of paper to protect its surface an improve appearance.

36. Segments of the Industry

37. ~Commercial Printing ~Periodical Printing ~Newspaper Printing ~Book Publishing and Printing ~In-Plant Printing