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Hairline
Register
Register within ± 1/2
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Hairline
Rule
A specified rule that will image at the finest resolution of an output device
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Halation
In photography, a blurred effect, resembling a halo, usually occurring in highlight
areas or around bright objects; caused by reflection of rays of light from
the back of negative material.
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Half
Title Page
A printed page containing only the book or section title; sometimes called
Bastard Title.
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Halftone
The reproduction of continuous-tone artwork, such as a photograph, through
a Crossline or Contact Screen, which converts the image into dots of various
sizes.
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Halftone
Cell
A matrix of imagesetter spots that can be drawn to simulate halftone dots of
different percentages.
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Halftone
Dots
The individual subdivisions of a printed surface created with a halftone screen.
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Halftone
Negative
The negative film produced when continuous tone copy is shot through a halftone
screen.
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Halftone
Screen
An engraved glass through which continuous tone copy is photographed and converted
to a series of dots for halftone printing; also called Glass Screen. See also:
Crossline Screen.
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Halo
Effect
Occurs when ink accumulates at the edges of printed letters and halftone dots,
making the centers appear lighter.
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Hand
Tip
To attach a leaf, foldout, etc. to a signature or bound book by hand operations
of gluing and placement of the item.
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Handstamp
To stamp on an envelope, package, etc. using a rubber stamp, such things as
a return address or mailing information required by postal regulations.
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Handwork
Any operation which can only be accomplished by hand. This includes hand operations
in Composition, Plate Prep or Bindery.
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Hanging
Indent
The first line of a paragraph of text that extends the full line with
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Hanging
Indention
In composition, copy set with the first line flush and all others indented,
such as this glossary.
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Hanging
Punctuation
A style of punctuation where all punctuation at line endings hang over the
edge of the text block.
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Hard
Copy
(1) The permanent visual record of the output of a computer or printer.
(2) The material sent to a typesetter in typed format for conversion into typeset
material.
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Hard
Dot
A halftone dot characterized by a sharp, clean cut edge, with little or no
fringe.
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Hard
Edge
An undesirable characteristic of a halftone, where the outer edge prints as
a more or less dark line, rather than fading away.
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Hardbound
See: Casebound.
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Hardcopy
A printout, either low-res or high-res, accurately representing the electronic
file. (A printer cannot be held liable for quality of high-resolution output
if hardcopy is not provided with the disks.)
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Hardcover
Binding
See: Casebinding.
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Head
(1) The top of a page or form.
(2) A heading in text composition.
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Head
Margin
The white space above the first line on a page; also called Top Margin.
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Head
Margin
The measured distance between the top of the printed sheet and the first line
of copy
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Head
Trim
The amount allowed for the top trim, usually 1/8
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Headband
A small decorative strip of silk or cotton used at the top and bottom of a
casebound book, to fill the gap normally formed between the spine of the
book and the cover.
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Headings
Headlines presenting a digest of the matter to follow. They appear at the top
of a page, article, column.
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Hickey
In printing, a blemish in the impression caused by dirt, hardened specks of
ink, or any dry hard particle working into the ink or onto the plate or
offset blanket. It is generally characterized by a solid center area surrounded
by a white halo.
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HiFi
color
A color printing module based on a six or seven color process to increase the
reproducible gamut
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High
Bulk Paper
A paper specifically manufactured to retain a thickness not found in other
papers of the same basis weight.
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High
Contrast
In photography, a reproduction in which the difference in darkness (density)
between adjoining areas is greater than in the original.
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High
Key Picture
A continuous tone photo made up of predominantly highlight (white) areas.
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Highlight
The lightest or whitest parts in a photograph, represented in a halftone reproduction
by the smallest dots or the absence of all dots.
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Highlight
Dots
Areas of image in a halftone reproduction under 1 percent
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Highlight
Halftone
A halftone reproduction in which the highlights are devoid of dots, for accentuation
of contrast; also called Dropout Halftone.
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Hinge
See: Joint.
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Hit
An impression from a stamping die.
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Holdout
A property of coated paper with low ink absorption, which allows ink to set
on the surface with high gloss. Papers with too much holdout cause problems
with set-off.
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Hone-off
To erase an image on a plate using an abrasive; also called Etch Out or Polish
Out.
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Hot
Melt
A glue used in bookbinding which is applied hot and sets almost instantly when
applied to a cool surface.
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House
Cloth
Material for casemaking stocked at the bindery, available in a limited number
of colors.
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House
Sheet
Paper stocked at the printer.
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HSV
Abbreviation for hue, saturation, and value - a color model used in some graphics
programs. HSV must be translated to another model for color printing or
for forming screen colors.
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HTML
Hypertest Markup Language. An instance of an SGML DTD for the creation and
interlinking of hypertext information on the Internet.
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Hue
(1) In color, the main attribute of a color which distinguishes it from other
colors.
(2) The wavelength of light of a color in its purest state (without the addition
of white or black).
(3) A visual attribute of color determined by the strongest wavelengths of
light either reflected or transmitted.
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Hypertext
Text in which related topics are directly linked. In electronic hypertexts,
markup permits links to be followed automatically by a hypetext browsing
application.
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Hyphenation
Determining where a word should break at the end of a line. In computerized
typesetting, there are programs to make these decisions.
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