Printing Knowledge Center

Perfect Binding is a popular bookbinding method for creating softcover books. Perfect Bound books have a very impressive appearance yet are quite economical.

Printing text or graphics as a Reverse is a creative design technique where the background color is printed but the actual text or graphic is left unprinted.

If you have ever wondered why the Black ink color is represented by the letter "K" in the CMYK abbreviation, this article will shed some light on that for you.

A Flood Coat refers to any coating - such as a varnish, aqueous or UV coating, ink, adhesive solution, etc. - that is applied over an entire surface of a paper sheet, cardstock, label stock or other substrate.

Instead of a typical layout where images are confined to one page or the other, a Crossover Image flows from the left page to the right page of an open book.

A Native File refers to the file format in which a document or artwork layout was originally created.  It contains all the elements that make up the design.