Glossary of Terms: L – M – N
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| L | |
| Laid finish | A parallel lined paper that has a handmade look. |
| Layout | A rendition that shows the placement of all the elements, images, thumbnails etc., of a final printed piece. |
| Leading | Space between lines of type. The distance in points between one baseline and the next. |
| Letterpress | Printing that utilizes inked raised surfaces, usually type, to create the image. |
| Letter spacing | The addition of space between typeset letters. |
| Line copy | Any copy that can be reproduced without the use of a halftone screen. |
| Linen | A paper that emulates the look and texture of linen cloth. |
| Lithography | The process of printing that utilizes flat or curved inked surfaces to create the printed images. |
| Logotype | A personalized type or design symbol for a company or product. |
| Loupe | A small magnifier used to observe the details on a printed sheet. |
| M | |
| M weight | The actual weight of 1,000 sheets of any given size of paper. |
| Magenta | One of the four process colors, or CMYK, the M is for magenta. Magenta is a predominately red color with some blue. Magenta, cyan and yellow are also the three subtractive primary colors. |
| Magnetic black | Black ink containing iron oxides, used for magnetic ink character recognition used for check printing. |
| Make-ready | Paper that is used in the press set-up process before the printing run actually starts. |
| Matte finish | A coated paper finish that goes through minimal calendaring. |
| Moiré | An undesirable halftone pattern produced by the incorrect angles of overprinting halftone screens. |
| Mottle | A term used to describe spotty or uneven ink absorption. |
| N | |
| Natural | A term to describe papers that have a color similar to that of wood, also called cream, off-white or ivory. |
| Newsprint | A light, low-cost unbleached paper made especially for newspaper printing. |
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