Standard Paper Sizes
Kane Moore
2nd
10 NOVEMBER 2011
DTP
TYPE
Size
Letter
8.5“ x 11”
Legal
8.5” x 14”
Tabloid
11” x 17”
Index card-standard
5” x 3”
Post card
6” x 4”
Business card
3.346” x 2.165”
Vocabulary
Desktppub.about.com/od/glossary
PAPER AND PRINTING TECHNIQUES
Acid Free Paper
Paper which has had the acid removed from the
pulp so that it has a neutral 7.0 pH
Bible Paper
A thin lightweight, opaque printing paper with a
basic size of 25” x 38”
Bleed through
When paper is too thin or the ink applied to
heavily the color can bleed or seep through the
other side.
Especially suitable to electronic printing and use
in office machines including copiers and desktop
printers, bond paper is a strong durable paper.
A heavy, stiff paper with a basic size of 20” x
26”, cover paper also known as card stock may
have matching book paper with the same color
and finishes.
The ragged edge of the paper as it comes from
the paper making machine is the deckle edge.
The edge gets its name from the frame – called a
deckle – used in papermaking. Handmade paper
normally has 4 deckle edges while machine
made paper has two.
The creation of three-dimensional design or
image on paper is known as embossing.
Bond paper
Card stock
Deckle edge
Embossing
Foil embossing
Glazed finish
Granite finish
Linen Finish
Matte Finish
A combination of foil stamping (application of
foil with heat) the results in a raised and foil
stamped image is described as foil embossing.
Paper with a polished or high gloss, shiny
surface may have a glazed finish is achieved by
processes such as friction (polishing) with a
heated surface
Paper to which multi-colors of fibers has been
added to create a mottled surface that
somewhat resembles the texture or appearance
of granite.
A text paper finish with a pattern simulating the
look of linen cloth
Coated paper with a dull, no-gloss finish without
luster
Newsprint
Parchment paper
Safety paper
Vellum
Ream
Ream weight (or paper weight)
Inexpensive paper made primarily of
mechanically ground wood pulp rather than
chemical pulp
Once made from the skin of animals such as
goats, sheep, or calves, the parchment paper is
now achieved by treating paper from cellulose
fibers with sulfuric acid.
Specially treated, calendared bond paper that
readily reveals attempts to alter it trough
erasures or printing
An absorbent finish of paper, vellum finish is a
very slightly rough or “tooth” texture intended
to mimic natural vellum.
500 sheets of printing paper
The actual weight in pounds of 500 sheets of
paper (a ream)
PAPER FOLDS
Accordion fold
Crossfold
Zigzag folds with 6 –panels and two parallel
folds that go in opposite directions. Each panel
of the accordion fold is about the same size.
Two or more folds going in different directions,
typically at right angles.
Double parallel fold
Paper is folded in half and then folded in half
again with a fold parallel to the first fold.
Spiral Fold
A piece of paper folded in spiral folds has two or
more parallel folds that fold in on each other.
C-fold (or trifold)
When folding paper into three parts, c folds
have 6 panels (counting both sides of the paper)
with two parallel folds in a spiral fold
configuration
To bend a paper to meet its other side once on
one paper in any direction
Half-fold
BINDING
Binding
Spiral binding
Saddle stitch
Perfect binding
A general term for any of various methods of
securing the loose pages or sections of a book or
booklet
One of several ways of securing loose printed
pages using single or double loop wire of plastic
that fit into round or rectangular holes in the
pages
Securing loose printed, folded, and nested pages
with stitches or staples down the middle of the
fold (the spine)
A method of bookbinding where a flexible
adhesive attaches a paper cover to the spine of
the assembled signatures