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Abbreviations & Acronyms Like any industry, ours uses a variety of abbreviations and acronyms. If you want to find out what they mean, you are in the right place! Simply use the list below. If the abbreviation you are looking for is not in our list, please let us know and we will be glad to help as well as add it to our list.
AA - Author's Alterations
AC - Author's Corrections ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line AP - Author's Proof ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode AV - Audio Visual B - Bytes
b - bits B&W, BW - Black and White BF - Bold Face bit - Binary Digit bpi - bits per inch Bps, B/s - Bytes per second BRI - Basic Rate Interface C - Cyan
C1S - Coated on one Side C2S - Coated on two Sides CAD - Computer Aided Design, or Computer Aided Drafting cap(s) - CAPital letter(s), uppercase letters CD - Compact Disk CD-I - Compact Disk Interactive CD-ROM - Compact Disk Read Only Memory CGI - Common Gateway Interface CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile CIE - Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage CIP3 - International Cooperation for Integration of Prepress, Press and Postpress cm - Centimeters cm2 - Square centimeters CMS - Color Management System CMYK - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black comp - COMPrehensive design CPI - Characters Per Inch CPL - Characters Per Line CPM - Copies Per Minute CPP - Characters Per Pica CPU - Central Processing Unit CR - Carriage Return CTP - Computer To Plate CWT - hundred WeighT DAM - Digital Asset Management
DBMS - DataBase Management System DDL - Document Description Language DIN - Deutsch Industrie-Norm DLL - Dynamic Link Library DNS - Domain Name System DP - Draft Proposal DPI - Dots Per Inch DTD - Document Type Definition DTP - DeskTop Publishing DVD - Digital Versatile Disk, Digital Video Disc DVORAK - alternative keyboard layout EDP - Electronic Data Processing
e.g. - for example EPPF - Encapsulated PrePress Format EPS - Encapsulated PostScript fax - facsimile
F&G - Fold and Gather flexo - flexography, flexographic FPO - For Position Only ft. - foot FTP - File Transfer Protocol G - Giga, one billion
GB - GigaByte Gb - Gigabit Gbps - Gigabits per second GIF - Graphics Interchange Format gsm - grams per square meter GUI - Graphical User Interface H&J - Hyphenation and Justification
hr. - hour HTML - HyperText Markup Language HSV - Hue, Saturation, and Value HT - HalfTone HTTP - Hypertext Transmission Protocol IBC - Inside Back Cover
ICR - Intelligent Character Recognition i.e. - that is IFC - Inside Front Cover IFT - Ink Film Thickness in. - inch in.2 - square inches IP - Internet Protocol IPH - Impressions Per Hour IPS - Inches Per Second ISBN - International Book Number ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network ISO - International Standards Organization ISSN - International Standard Serial Number JIT - Just In Time
JPEG, JPG - Joint Photographic Experts Group K - Kilo, one thousand
KB - KiloByte Kb - Kilobit kg - kilogram KPH - Keystrokes Per Hour l. - line
LAN - Local Area Network lb. - pound(s) LC - LowerCase litho - lithography, lithographic LPC - Lines Per Centimeter LPH - Lines Per Hour LPI - Lines Per Inch LUT - Look-Up Table M - Mega, one million, Magenta
m - meter, milli MB - MegaByte Mb - Megabit MBS - MegaBytes per Second MbS - Megabits per Second mg - milligram MICR - Magnetic Ink Character Recognition MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions min. - minute(s) MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second MIS - Management Information Systems modem - Modulator-Demodulator mm - millimeter MS - manuscript n - nano, 0.000000001
NCR - No-Carbon-Required paper NCS - Natural Color System NetBIOS - Network Basic Input Output System nm - nanometer, 0.1 Angstroms OA - Office Automation
OBC - Outside Back Cover OBR - Optical Bar Reader/Recognition OCR - Optical Character Recognition ODR - Optical Dot Gain OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer OFC - Outside Front Cover OK - Okay OLE - Object Linking and Embedding OMR - Optical Mark Reader/Recognition OPI - Open Prepress Interface ortho - orthochromatic OS - Operating System p - pica
p., pp. - page(s) par. - paragraph PC - Personal Computer PCL - Printer Control Language PCR - Print Contrast Ratio PDG - Physical Dot Gain PDL - Page Description Language PE - Printer's Error pg. - page PGP - Pretty Good Privacy PIG - Process Ink Gamut chart PING - Packet InterNet Groper pixel - picture element PMS - Pantone Matching System PMT - Photo Mechanical Transfer PO - Purchase Order, Position Only Ppi - Pixels per inch POP - Post Office Protocol, Point of Presence POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service PPM - Pages Per Minute PPP - Point-to-Point Protocol PRI - Primary Rate Interface progs - progressive proofs PS - PostScript pt. - point QWERTY - standard keyboard layout
R - Red
RAID - Redundant Array of Independent or Inexpensive Disks RAM - Random Acces Memory RC - Resin-Coated paper RGB - Red, Green, Blue RIP - Raster Image Processor ROM - Read-Only Memory ROP - Run Of Press SC - Small Caps
SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface SDSL - Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line sec. - second SEO - Search Engine Optimization SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language SIC - Standard Industrial Classification SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol SP - Space Character SPDL - Standard Page Description Language sq. - square spool - simultaneous peripheral operation on line S/S, S.S. - Same Size SWOP - Specifications for Web Offset Publications T - Tera, one trillion
TB - TeraByte Tb - Terabit TCP - Transmission Control Protocol TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol TI - Tone Index TIF, TIFF - Tagged Image File Format typo - typographic error U&LC - Upper and LowerCase
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter UC - UpperCase UCS - Uniform Color Space USB - Universal Serial Bus UUencode - Unix-to-Unix encode UV - UltraViolet vol. - volume(s)
VPN - Virtual Private Network W2P - Web-To-Print
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium WAN - Wide Area Network W&B - Work and Back WF - Wrong Font WPM - Words Per Minute W&T - Work and Turn WWW - World Wide Web WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get WYSIWYP - What You See Is What You Print xDSL - all Digital Subscriber Lines
XML - eXtended Markup Language XSL - Extensible Style Language Y - Yellow
YMC - Yellow, Magenta, Cyan YMCK - Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, and Black |
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