Glossary

The words a print shop uses, as Studio uses them. In alphabetical order.

Banner

One print at its size, on a roll with no liner. Nothing is cut. One wider than the roll is printed in panels. See A banner wider than the roll.

Bleed

Artwork that runs past the cut line, so a cutter that wanders leaves colour and not a white edge. Studio runs artwork a thirty-second of an inch past the blade on a sticker. On a banner each panel has the stock's bleed.

Bulk order

Several files added at once, recorded as one order with a job for each run.

Checked

A job a person has marked Mark as checked. Studio keeps who, and when.

Cut line

The line the blade follows round a piece. Studio draws it, and it is the same line the cutter gets. It is traced from the artwork, taken from your file, or drawn by hand.

Cut through

A cut that goes all the way through the stock and the liner, along the sheet's edge, so the sheet comes off the roll. Compare kiss-cut.

Day's plan

Studio's suggestion of which press takes which job, grouped so there are the fewest roll changes. It is on All sites, and a supervisor can put the whole plan on the presses in one go. Nothing reaches a press until a person does.

Decal

One print on any roll that is not a board, cut round its edge along a trim line of its own.

Die-cut

Cut to the shape of the piece, rather than to a rectangle.

DPI

Dots per inch: the resolution of a picture at the size it is printed. A photograph that is sharp at 3″ may be soft at 12″. Studio shows each design's DPI at its printed size and looks at anything under 150.

ΔE

The trade's measure of the difference between two colours. Under 1, nobody can see it. Past 3.5, a customer will. Studio uses ΔE 2000.

Finish

What is on the stock's surface, such as gloss or matte. A finish may rip on a Quick Set of its own.

Fix these issues

The button over the preflight's list. It shows each fix ticked, with what it would change, and Make the fixes makes them all as one change, so one Undo takes them back.

Gang, or ganging

Putting several jobs on one roll to print together. Jobs on the same stock for the same press wait together on a waiting roll, and a person prints it when it is full enough.

Gap, or gutter

The space left between pieces on the sheet for the blade. In Studio, Gap between pieces on the Job tab. For stickers it also serves as the bleed.

Hand out

A supervisor giving a job to a named person, who finds it first on their Home.

Hand-over

The screen that Put on a press… opens. It shows the file's name, every separation and every page, and ends in Put it on the press's name.

Hot folder

The folder your RIP watches. Studio writes the print file into it, and does nothing else near the press. You name one for each press.

Hot folder picker

Under each press's hot folder box in Integrations: Choose a folder the connector sees, Make a new folder… and Look in another folder…. A browser cannot see your disks, so the press connector looks for you.

ICC profile

The colour profile your RIP uses for a given stock and ink set. The RIP does the conversion to what the press lays down, not Studio.

Integration

A RIP that a supervisor has turned on in Integrations, with a hot folder for each press. ONYX is the RIP Studio is built most for.

Kiss-cut

A cut through the sticker that stops at the backing, so the sticker peels off the liner. A stock with no liner cannot be kiss-cut.

Library

What a shop builds up and everyone in it shares: swatches, palettes, recipes, templates and saved shapes, kept in the shop's account. Not to be confused with the colour profiles PostPress publishes for every shop.

Liner

The backing paper a sticker sits on. The blade of a kiss-cut stops at it. A stock with no liner cannot be kiss-cut.

Look

A preflight finding that is a call left to you. The job can be made. Compare stop.

Nesting

Packing pieces onto a sheet. Nest by shape packs the outlines, not the boxes round them, so round stickers sit closer, and Studio tells you how many sheets that saves.

On-premise

The same browser Studio on a server of your own, with our support. Ask us through the contact page.

Palette

A set of your colour swatches under a customer's name, used to make many files match.

Panel

One section of a print that is wider than the roll. Panels are equal, each has the stock's bleed, and they overlap at every seam.

Preflight

The check Studio makes of every job before it can go. It finds what the press cannot make, or would make differently from the preview. See Read the preflight.

Press connector

A small program on a computer beside the press, which we set up with you. It reports your presses, fetches the jobs you put on them and writes each into the press's hot folder. So far we have tried it against a stand-in press, not yet beside a shop's own. We set it up with you and watch the first job through.

Preset

A saved set of settings for a press model and media. Studio shows its own beside your shop's own, and yours wins where you have set one.

Print at N% full

Each press says how full its waiting roll must be before Print is on, 95% until a supervisor changes it. A supervisor can print sooner, with a reason that is kept.

Print file

The PDF a press is given: your sheet, with a layer for each separation. A put keeps it in the saved job, and the press connector writes it into the hot folder. Download the print file hands you the same file by hand.

Proof

Here, a link to one picture of a sheet that a customer can approve or comment on, without an account.

Put

Putting a saved job on one of your presses by name, from the hand-over or a job's row in Jobs. The press connector then fetches it. Putting is not printing: a person at the press starts the job.

Quick Set

The media setting your RIP rips a job with, named as your RIP names it. ONYX calls them Quick Sets. Studio asks you to type one for each stock.

Read-only

How Studio opens when a licence has lapsed past its grace: jobs can be opened and copied out, and nothing can be changed.

Recipe

A fixed list of up to four steps done to every file in a run: take the background off, put the colours on a palette, cut every piece to a shape, size every piece.

Registration marks

Small printed marks the cutter's sensor reads to find where the print really is, because the material stretches and moves. Studio keeps artwork out of the clear space round each.

RIP

The software that turns the file into what the press prints. Studio hands the sheet to the RIP you own and does not replace it. Studio's own RIP is in development.

Roll

The stock as the press has it, a long strip with a width. A job takes a length of it. Several jobs on one stock can wait together on one roll.

Roll view

A waiting roll drawn whole on All sites, lengthwise, with each job a colour-coded box with its running number. Hover for the order, click to pick. The colours are never printed.

Seat

One person's place in the licence. A shop has an agreed number.

Separation

One layer of the print file with a name. The colour, the cut line and white are separations. A RIP decides what to do with each by its name, so a cut line's name must match what your RIP expects.

Sheet

The page you lay designs out on. It can be any size the stock will take, and is cut free from the roll.

Stand-in press

A made-up press used for a rehearsal. It reports presses and fetches the jobs put on them like a real connector, writes nothing into a hot folder and is marked Demonstration. Where this manual says something has been tried against a stand-in press, it has not yet been tried beside a shop's own.

Stop

A preflight finding that holds the job. The press cannot make it, or would make it differently from the preview. A stop cannot be clicked past. Compare look.

Supervisor

A person who may change the shop's settings, invite people and hand out jobs.

Swatch

A saved colour: a name and a number, kept in the shop's account.

Take it

The button that moves a job handed to somebody else to you, so you can save it. A job stays theirs when you only look at it.

Take-out

All of a shop's jobs and settings as one file, which a supervisor can make at any time.

Template

A saved set-up for repeat work: the stock, the sheet and the cut, and not the artwork.

Waiting roll

The jobs put on one press on one stock, waiting together until the roll is full enough to print. Jobs can be taken out of it until it is printed.

Weeding

Pulling the waste away from the stickers once they are cut. A narrow neck tears when the waste is pulled, and Studio shows a look for one under 1.6 mm.