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Saddle Stitch

In binding, to fasten a booklet by wiring it through the middle fold of the sheets. Also called saddle wire.

Sans Serif

A style of typeface that means "without feet." Common sans serif typefaces include Arial, Helvetica, AvantGarde and Verdana.

Score

To impress or indent a mark in the paper to make folding easier.

Script

Connected, flowing letters resembling hand writing with pen or quill. Either slanted or upright.

Search Engine

A search engines is a program that searches documents (i.e. web pages, which are HTML-documents) for specified keywords and returns the list of documents. A search engine has two parts, a spider and an indexer. The spider is the program that fetches the documents, and the indexer reads the documents and creates an index based on the words or ideas contained in each document.

Self Cover

A cover of the same paper as inside text pages.

Serif

A style of typeface that has "little feet." Common serif typefaces include Times Roman, Garamond, and Palatino.

Sheetwise

To print one side of a sheet of paper with one plate, then turn the sheet over and print the other side with another plate using same gripper and opposite side guide.

Side Stitch

Binding by stapling along one side of a sheet.

Signature

In printing and binding, the name given to a printed sheet after it has been folded.

Small Caps

Capital letters set at the x-height of the font.

Specifications

A precise description of a print order.

Spider/Robot

A software program that search engines use which visits every site on the web, follows all of the links, and catalogs all of the text of every web page that text.

Spine

The binding edge of a book or publication. Also backbone.

Spiral Binding

A book bound with wires in spiral form inserted through holes punched along the binding side.

Spoilage

Planned paper waste for all printing operations.

Spot Varnish

Varnish used to highlight a specific part of the printed sheet.

Spread

In a double-sided document, the combination of two facing pages, which are designed as a unit. Also, the adjacent inside panels of a brochure when opened.

Stamping

Term for foil stamping.

Stock

Paper or other material to be printed.

Stroke Weight

In a typeface, the amount of contrast between thick and thin strokes. Different typefaces have distinguishing stroke-weight characteristics.

Subscript

A character slightly smaller than the rest of the font, set below the baseline.

Superscript

A character slightly smaller than the rest of the font, set above the baseline.