All Glossary Pages

• A4 - What is A4?
• A5 - What is A5?
• A6 - What is A6?
• Abrasion Resistance - What is abrasion resistance?
• Abrasiveness - What is abrasiveness?
• Accelerated Aging - What is accelerated aging?
• Acrylic - What is acrylic?
• Activate - What does activate mean?
• Address Labels - What are address labels?
• Adhere - What does adhere mean?
• Adherend - What is an adherend?
• Adhesion (Instant) - What is instant adhesion?
• Adhesion (Ultimate) - What is ultimate adhesion?
• Adhesion - What is adhesion?
• Adhesive (Acrylic Based) - What is an acrylic based adhesive?
• Adhesive (All Temperature) - What is an all temperature adhesive?
• Adhesive (Cold Temperature) - What is a cold temperature adhesive?
• Adhesive (Dry Peel) - What is a dry peel adhesive?
• Adhesive (Emulsion) - What is an emulsion adhesive?
• Adhesive (Freezer Temperature) - What is a freezer temperature adhesive?
• Adhesive (Fugitive) - What is a fugitive adhesive?
• Adhesive (Gum) - What is a gum adhesive?
• Adhesive (High Tack) - What is a high tack adhesive?
• Adhesive (High Temperature) - What is a high temperature adhesive?
• Adhesive (Hot Melt) - What is a hot melt adhesive?
• Adhesive (Marine) - What is a marine adhesive?
• Adhesive (Microsphere) - What is a microsphere adhesive?
• Adhesive (Opaque) - What is an opaque adhesive?
• Adhesive (Permanent) - What is a permanent adhesive?
• Adhesive (Pressure Sensitive) - What is a pressure sensitive adhesive?
• Adhesive (Removable) - What is a removable adhesive?
• Adhesive (Rubber Based) - What is a rubber based adhesive?
• Adhesive (Thermoplastic) - What is a thermoplastic adhesive?
• Adhesive (Thermosetting) - What is a thermosetting adhesive?
• Adhesive (Water Based) - What is a water based adhesive?
• Adhesive (Water Soluble) - What is a water soluble adhesive?
• Adhesive - What is an adhesive?
• Adhesive Bleed - What is adhesive bleed?
• Adhesive Failure - What is adhesive failure?
• Adhesive Residue - What is adhesive residue?
• Adhesive Sandwich - What is an adhesive sandwich?
• Affinity - What is affinity?
• Alignment - What does alignment mean?
• Alligatoring - What is alligatoring?
• Analogue Printing - What is analogue printing?
• Anchor Coat - What is an anchor coat?
• Anchorage - What is anchorage?
• Apparent - What does apparent mean?
• Application - What does application mean?
• Application Temperature - What does application temperature mean?
• ASCII - What does ASCII mean?
• Asset ID Labels - What are asset ID labels?
• B - What does B stand for?
• Backing Sheet - What is a backing sheet?
• Band Labels - What are band labels?
• Barcode - What is a barcode?
• Barrier Coat - What is a barrier coat?
• Basis Weight - What does basis weight mean?
• Bespoke - What does bespoke mean?
• BgVV - What does BgVV mean?
• Bitmap - What does bitmap mean?
• Black and White - What does black and white mean?
• Bleached Paper - What is bleached paper?
• Bleed - What does bleed mean?
• Bleed Through - What is bleed through?
• Blister - What does blister mean?
• Blocking - What is blocking?
• Blockout Labels - What are blockout labels?
• Bond - What does bond mean?
• Brightness - What is brightness?
• BRK - What does BRK stand for?
• Butt Cut - What does butt cut mean?
• C - What does C stand for?
• C4 - What is C4?
• C5 - What is C5?
• C6 - What is C6?
• Calendered Paper - What is calendared paper?
• Caliper - What does caliper mean?
• Carrier Sheet - What is a carrier sheet?
• Cast Coated - What does cast coated mean?
• CD/DVD Labels - What are CD Labels / DVD Labels?
• Centralise - What does centralise mean?
• Checking - What is checking?
• Clay Coated - What does clay coated mean?
• Clear - What does clear mean?
• Clear Coat - What is a clear coat?
• Coated Paper - What is coated paper?
• Coating - What does coating mean?
• Cohesion - What is cohesion?
• Cohesive Failure - What is cohesive failure?
• Cold Flow - What is cold flow?
• Colourant - What is a colourant?
• Coloured Labels - What are coloured labels?
• Compatible - What does compatible mean?
• Conformability - What is conformability?
• Construction - What does construction mean?
• Consumables - What are consumables?
• Convert - What does convert mean?
• Copier - What is a copier?
• Corner Radius - What does corner radius mean?
• Coverage - What is coverage?
• CR - What does CR stand for?
• Crazing - What is crazing?
• CRD - What does CRD stand for?
• Creep - What is creep?
• Cure - What does cure mean?
• Curl - What is curl?
• Cyan - What does cyan mean?
• Delamination - What is delamination?
• Density - What is density?
• Desktop Publishing Software - What is desktop publishing software?
• Destructible Material - What is a destructible material?
• DF - What does DF stand for?
• Diameter - What does diameter mean?
• Die - What does die mean?
• Die Cut - What does die cut mean?
• Die Cut Labels - What are die cut labels?
• Dielectric Strength - What is dielectric strength?
• Digital Printing - What is digital printing?
• Dimensional Stability - What is dimensional stability?
• Direct Thermal Printing - What is direct thermal printing?
• Discolouration - What is discolouration?
• Distortion - What is distortion?
• Dot Matrix - What does dot matrix mean?
• Dot Matrix Printing - What is dot matrix printing?
• Dry Edge - What does dry edge mean?
• Duty Cycle - What does duty cycle mean?
• Dwell - What does dwell mean?
• Dye - What is a dye?
• Edge Lift - What is edge lift?
• Electrical or Electronic Labels - What are electrical labels or electronic labels?
• Electrostatic Printing - What is electrostatic printing?
• Emulsion - What is an emulsion?
• Expanded or Extended Content Labels - What are expanded content labels or extended content labels?
• Exposure Temperature - What does exposure temperature mean?
• Face Cut Labels - What are face cut labels?
• Face Material - What does face material mean?
• Face Stock - What is face stock?
• Fan Fold Labels - What are fan fold labels?
• FC - What does FC stand for?
• Feathering - What is feathering?
• Felt Side - What does felt side mean?
• FG - What does FG stand for?
• Fibre - What does fibre mean?
• File Extension - What does file extension mean?
• File Format - What does file format mean?
• Film - What does film mean?
• Finish - What does finish mean?
• FL - What does FL stand for?
• Flexibility - What is flexibility?
• Flexographic Printing - What is flexographic printing?
• Flood Coat - What does flood coat mean?
• Fluorescent - What does fluorescent mean?
• FM - What does FM stand for?
• FO - What does FO stand for?
• Font - What does font mean?
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - What is the Food and Drug Administration?
• Four Colour Process Printing - What is four colour process printing?
• FR - What does FR stand for?
• Frangible Material - What is a frangible material?
• Franking Labels - What are franking labels?
• Freezer Labels - What are freezer labels?
• Frosted - What does frosted mean?
• Frozen Edge - What does frozen edge mean?
• Fuser Unit - What is a fuser unit?
• G - What does G stand for?
• Gauge - What does gauge mean?
• GCP - What does GCP stand for?
• Glass Removable Labels - What are glass removable labels?
• Gloss - What does gloss mean?
• Grade - What does grade mean?
• Grain - What does grain mean?
• Grammage - What does grammage mean?
• Graphics - What does graphics mean?
• Graphics Software - What is graphics software?
• Gravure Printing - What is gravure printing?
• GREM - What does GREM stand for?
• Greyscale - What is greyscale?
• Gridlines - What are gridlines?
• GTP - What does GTP stand for?
• GTR - What does GTR stand for?
• GW - What does GW stand for?
• GWP - What does GWP stand for?
• GWPQ - What does GWPQ stand for?
• Hang Tag - What is a hang tag?
• Holding Power - What is holding power?
• Hot Fuse Printer System - What is a hot fuse printer system?
• HT - What does HT stand for?
• Humidity - What is humidity?
• Hygroscopic - What does hygroscopic mean?
• Image Drum - What is an image drum?
• Impact Printing - What is impact printing?
• Information Labels - What are information labels?
• Initial Tack - What is initial tack?
• Ink - What is ink?
• Ink Receptivity - What is ink receptivity?
• Inkjet Printing - What is inkjet printing?
• Inside Diameter (ID) - What does inside diameter mean?
• Integrated Labels - What are integrated labels?
• Ion Deposition Printing - What is ion deposition printing?
• ISO - What does ISO mean?
• Key - What does key mean?
• Kiss Cut - What does kiss cut mean?
• Knock Out Printing - What is knock out printing?
• Kraft - What does Kraft mean?
• Label - What is a label?
• Lacquer - What is lacquer?
• Ladder - What does ladder mean?
• Laminate - What does laminate mean?
• Laser Printing - What is laser printing?
• Lay Flat - What is lay flat?
• Letterpress Printing - What is letterpress printing?
• LG - What does LG stand for?
• Lift Tab - What does lift tab mean?
• Lightfast Inks - What are lightfast inks?
• Liner - What is a liner?
• Lithographic Printing - What is lithographic printing?
• LS - What does LS stand for?
• Magenta - What does magenta mean?
• Mail Merge - What is a mail merge?
• Margins - What are margins?
• Material - What does material mean?
• Matrix - What does matrix mean?
• Matt - What does matt mean?
• Media Bypass Tray - What is a media bypass tray?
• Media Labels - What are media labels?
• Memory - What is memory?
• Metallic - What does metallic mean?
• Metallised - What does metallised mean?
• Micron - What does micron mean?
• Migration - What is migration?
• Mil - What does mil mean?
• Millimetre (mm) - What does millimetre mean?
• Mini Labels - What are mini labels?
• Mirror Printing - What is mirror printing?
• Moisture Content - What is moisture content?
• Monochrome (mono) - What is monochrome?
• MPQ - What does MPQ stand for?
• MTP - What does MTP stand for?
• MWP - What does MWP stand for?
• MWPE - What does MWPE stand for?
• MWPO - What does MWPO stand for?
• MWPP - What does MWPP stand for?
• MWR - What does MWR stand for?
• Name Labels - What are name labels?
• Narrow Edge Leading (N.E.L.) - What does narrow edge leading mean?
• Natural Coloured Labels - What are natural coloured labels?
• Non-Impact Printing - What is non-impact printing?
• Offset - What does offset mean?
• Offset Printing - What is offset printing?
• Opaque - What does opaque mean?
• Opaque Labels - What are opaque labels?
• OPQ - What does OPQ stand for?
• ORD - What does ORD stand for?
• Outside Diameter (OD) - What does outside diameter mean?
• OV - What does OV stand for?
• Over Coat - What does over coat mean?
• Overlamination - What is overlamination?
• Overlap Labels - What are overlap labels?
• Overprinting - What is overprinting?
• Oxidising Inks - What are oxidising inks?
• Packaging Labels - What are packaging labels?
• Pantone - What does pantone mean?
• Pattern Coating - What is pattern coating?
• PDF - What does PDF mean?
• Peel Tab - What is a peel tab?
• Peelable - What does peelable mean?
• Penetration - What is penetration?
• Perforated - What does perforated mean?
• Permeability - What is permeability?
• Phosphorescent - What does phosphorescent mean?
• Photocopier - What is a photocopier?
• Piggyback Labels - What are piggyback labels?
• Pigment - What is a pigment?
• Pin Feed Labels - What are pin feed labels?
• Pinholing - What is pinholing?
• Pitch - What does pitch mean?
• PK - What does PK stand for?
• Plastic - What is plastic?
• Pliability - What is pliability?
• Ply - What does ply mean?
• Point - What does point mean?
• Polyester - What is polyester?
• Polyethylene - What is polyethylene?
• Polymer - What is a polymer?
• Polyolefin - What is polyolefin?
• Polypropylene - What is polypropylene?
• Porosity - What is porosity?
• PostScript - What is PostScript?
• Pressure Sensitive Labels - What are pressure sensitive labels?
• Pressure Sensitive Laminate - What is a pressure sensitive laminate?
• Price Mark Labels - What are price mark labels?
• Primary Labels - What are primary labels?
• Primer - What is a primer?
• Printability - What is printability?
• Printable Area - What does printable area mean?
• Printer Margins - What are printer margins?
• Product Labels - What are product labels?
• Protective Coat - What is a protective coat?
• Pull Tab - What is a pull tab?
• QR Code - What is a QR code?
• R - What does R stand for?
• Readability - What is readability?
• Ream - What does ream mean?
• Recycled Labels - What are recycled labels?
• Release Coat - What is a release coat?
• Release Liner - What is a release liner?
• REM - What does REM stand for?
• REMC - What does REMC stand for?
• Removable Labels - What are removable labels?
• Repositionable Labels - What does repositionable labels mean?
• Resin - What is resin?
• Resolution - What does resolution mean?
• Retail Labels - What does retail labels mean?
• Reverse Printing - What is reverse printing?
• Ribbon - What is ribbon?
• Roll Labels - What are roll labels?
• Rounded Corner Rectangles - What are rounded corner rectangles?
• Sample - What is a sample?
• Satin Finish - What does satin finish mean?
• Score - What does score mean?
• Screen Printing - What is screen printing?
• Sealer Coat - What is a sealer coat?
• Secondary Labels - What are secondary labels?
• Security Labels - What are security labels?
• Security Printing - What is security printing?
• Self Adhesive Labels - What are self adhesive labels?
• Selvedge - What is a selvedge?
• Semi-Gloss - What does semi-gloss mean?
• Service Temperature - What does service temperature mean?
• Set - What does set mean?
• Set-Off - What is set off?
• Shear Resistance - What is shear resistance?
• Sheet Labels - What are sheet labels?
• Shelf Edge Labels - What are shelf edge labels?
• Shelf Life - What does shelf life mean?
• Shipping Labels - What are shipping labels?
• Shrinkage - What is shrinkage?
• Silicone - What is silicone?
• Silk Finish - What does silk finish mean?
• Skeleton - What does skeleton mean?
• Skip - What does skip mean?
• Slit & Split - What is a slit or a split?
• Smartstamp® Labels - What are Smartstamp® labels?
• SMP - What does SMP stand for?
• Solvent - What is a solvent?
• Splashproof - What does splashproof mean?
• Spot Coat - What does spot coat mean?
• Spot Colour Printing - What is spot colour printing?
• Sprocket Feed Labels - What are sprocket feed labels?
• SQ - What does SQ stand for?
• Square Cut Corner Rectangles - What are square cut corner rectangles?
• ST - What does ST stand for?
• STA - What does STA stand for?
• Stability - What is stability?
• Static Cling - What is static cling?
• Static Cling Labels - What are static cling labels?
• Stock - What does stock mean?
• Stocked - What does stocked mean?
• Storage Range - What does storage range mean?
• Strike-Through - What is strike-through?
• Strip Coating - What is strip coating?
• Substrate - What is a substrate?
• Subsurface Printing - What is subsurface printing?
• Super Removable Labels - What are super removable labels?
• SVP - What does SVP stand for?
• Swing Tag - What is a swing tag?
• Synthetic - What does synthetic mean?
• Tack - What is tack?
• Tag Labels - What are tag labels?
• Tamper Evident Labels - What are tamper evident labels?
• Tear Tab - What is a tear tab?
• Template - What is a template?
• Temporary Labels - What are temporary labels?
• TEV - What does TEV stand for?
• Thermal Printing - What is thermal printing?
• Thermal Transfer Printing - What is thermal transfer printing?
• Thickness - What does thickness mean?
• Through Cut - What does through cut mean?
• Tie Coat - What is a tie coat?
• Tolerance - What is tolerance?
• Toner - What is toner?
• Top Coat - What is a top coat?
• Top Lamination - What is top lamination?
• Tracking Labels - What are tracking labels?
• Tractor Feed Labels - What are tractor feed labels?
• Translucent - What does translucent mean?
• Transparent - What does transparent mean?
• Transparent Labels - What are transparent labels?
• Typeface - What does typeface mean?
• Uncoated Paper - What is uncoated paper?
• UV Ink - What is UV ink?
• UV Light - What is UV light?
• UV Resistance - What is UV resistance?
• UV Varnish - What is UV varnish?
• Variable Information Labels - What are variable information labels?
• Varnish - What is a varnish?
• Vector - What does vector mean?
• Vehicle - What is a vehicle?
• Vinyl (PVC) - What is vinyl?
• Viscosity - What is viscosity?
• Void - What does void mean?
• Void Labels - What are void labels?
• Waste - What does waste mean?
• Waterproof - What does waterproof mean?
• Waterproof Labels - What are waterproof labels?
• Web - What does web mean?
• Whiteness - What is whiteness?
• Wicking - What is wicking?
• Wide Edge Leading (W.E.L.) - What does wide edge leading mean?
• Wire Side - What does wire side mean?
• Word - What is Word?
• Word Processor - What is a word processor?
• Wrap Around Labels - What are wrap around labels?
• Wrinkle - What is a wrinkle?
• WW - What does WW stand for?
• Xerography - What is xerography?
• Y - What does Y stand for?
• Yellow - What does yellow mean?
• Yellowing - What is yellowing?
• Zone Coating - What is zone coating?