Bleed Bleed refers to graphics that run to the edge of the page.

RGB stands for Red, Green and Blue. Scanners and digital cameras generally create images using combinations of the RGB colours.

 

CMYK 4 Colour printing is done in CMYK, which stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black.

Digital Printing refers to the type of printing which uses digital imaging process that transfers the image directly onto plain paper without traditional offset rollers and plates.

DPI (dot per inch) the number of dots that fit horizontally and vertically into a one- inch measure. Generally, the more dots per inch, the more detail is captured, and the sharper the resulting image.

GIF An eight bit (256 colors or shades of grey) or less computer file format by Compuserve. Commonly used to post photographic images to computer bulletin boards and the internet, GIF files are almost never used for professional printing.

 

JPEG Joint Photographic Electronic Group. A common standard for compressing image data.

 

TIFF Tagged Image File Format, a bitmapped file format used for the reproduction of digitally scanned images such as photographs, illustrations & logos.