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spot size
The physical size of a recording or scanning spot. The smaller the spot size, the higher the resolution.
spot
The smallest diameter of light that a scanner can detect or an imagesetter or film plotter can expose. Spot should not be confused with dot, which is the individual element of a halftone.
spot-out
See opaque
SQL
Abbreviation for Structured Query Language: standard language to query databases
square serif
A typeface with serifs the same weight or heavier than the main strokes.
squeeze
Slang for compressing data for storage or on-line transmission.
SS
Abbreviation for Same Size
stepper
Short name for a step-and-repeat machine: a device used to expose the same film image multiple times on a film or plate, most commonly used in packaging and label applications.
stepping motors
A type of electric motor that moves a very precise distance at the command of a computer. For example, a stepping motor drives an imagesetters’s lead screw.
step tablet
A narrow strip of film consisting of orderly variable progression of increasing differences of neutral gray densities ranging from clear film to maximum density.
stet
A proofreader’s mark meaning “let it stand”, do not make indicated change; copy should remain as is.
stiction
Combination of static and moving frictional forces observed as a non-linear and non repeatable jump when motion begins.
stochastic screening
Al screening algorithm that composes an image with very fine randomly placed microdots, rather than a grid of halftone cells.
straight matter
Body text copy set in simple rectangular columns.
streamer
A newspaper headline that runs across the full page
A quote in a magazine that runs across the width of a column, added to attract the reader’s attention and visually make the page more interesting
string
A sequence of keyboard characters or codes to be processed as a group.
stripping
It means what you think it means but it also refers to the preparation and assembling of film in order to create a printing plate of the entire page
stroke
- Slash character (/).
- The essential lines which make up a character
stroking
In graphic software, a process of building lines of varying thickness around objects, usually to create spreads for trapping.
Stuffit
Popular compression program on the Macintosh platform
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