What is design for print - My New Book - Print and Design

So there was a book sale at College today, after doing a session this morning looking at print, I decided to purchase 'Print and Finish'. Just flicking through it I can it is going to give me so much information. I'm going to attempt to read it all, and update my blog with every nook and cranny of info it gives me, as it will be most useful when producing my Top 10 guide to print.

4/10/11

Print definitions:

Substrate : any stock / material 

Finishing: Process to finish job, e.g - Die cutting, folding etc

Showthrough: Ink printed on one side can be seen through the other side, usually determined by kind of substrate used.

Imposition: The arrangement of printed publication pages , in the sequence and position they will appear when printed. Before being cut and binded.

Duplexing: The bonding of two substrates to form one.Allows a stock to have a range of textures and finishes.

Paper types

Newsprint: Short life span, cheap, used in newspapers and comics

Antique: roughest finish offered on offset paper, used to add texture to publications such as annual reports.

Uncoated woodfree: Largest printing and writing paper category - e.g office paper and photocopy paper

Mechanical: Produced using wood pulp, for short term use, eg newspaper

Art board: Uncoated board, cover stock.

Art: High quality paper, good printing surface, especially for half tones and where detail is important. Colour printing, magazines.

Cast coated: High - gloss finish 

Chromo: Waterproof coating on one side, good for embossing. Used for labels, wrappings and covers.

Cartridge: Thick white paper used for pencil and ink drawings. 

Grey board: Lined or unlined board made from waste paper. Packaging material.

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Printing types

Lithography:

Uses metal plate to transfer a design via a rubber blanket to the stock. Typically four colour (CMYK)

Wash print:

Allows most delicate of colours to be applyed to a substrate. Uses highly diluted ink to produce a flat colour which is subtle. 

Silk screen:

Imposes an image onto a substrate by forcing ink through a screen has has a design. Slow process, high quality. 

Letterpress:

Relief printing in which an inked raised surface is forced against a substrate. First form of commercial printing. Unique in its slight indentations through varying prints.

Hot metal printing:

The process of casting type in lines of molten metal. 

Thermography:

Used to produce raised letters on substrates. Powder dispensed onto sheet of printed paper, the powder sticks, when pushed through an oven fuses with substrate and leaves a raised surface.