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Printing Technology Practice Test Questions
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Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing.

The four major printing methods are: letterpress, lithographic (offset), gravure, and stencil printing.

Printing Technology Practice Test Questions
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1. The first stage of layout is also called_______.
2. Printing means ________ to paper.
3. ——————–refers to the thickness or weight of the lines that form a character.
4. The largest size in Metal type faces is ____________.
5. A process in which the printing image is etched below the non printing area is called_______.
6. Letter press is ________________.
7. When characters are cast by punching holes of paper tapes which are later run through the caster in __________.
8. Software that stores lines and shapes rather than individual pixels is known as————————
9. A blank printing unit for spacing is _________________.
10. Tolbert Lanston invented ________________.
11. Printing from a raised surface is termed as______________.
12. _________ Printing makes halftone printing more colourful and lively by bringing out the high intensity of colours.
13. Any letter, number punctuation mark, symbol or figure in copy is known as ___________.
14. The distance across the nick or belly side of the type is an important measure called the ——————.
15. Printing a line diagram on a photo graph is called as _____________.
16. Linotype is composing machine to cast______________.
17. A set of rules that govern typeface arrangement in a particular newspaper is called as_______.
18. The final proof is also termed ________________.
19. The part of the lower case letter that excluded ascender and descender is called_________.
20. Expansion of UCR————————.
21. ———————— are also referred to as Blackletter.
22. The folio Shows ______________.
23. The third stage of layout is also called________________.
24. Design specifications written on dummy or on manuscript copy are called_________________.
25. Vector images are made up of mathematically described paths called ___________.