Label – One side of the paper is prepared for printing, whilst the other side is rough and has adhesive applied. Most common labels used are “snap & peel” where you bend the label and the protective backing snaps away from the adhesive coating making application easy.
Lamination - A plastic film bonded usually by heat and pressure to a printed sheet for protection and appearance.
LAN - Local Area Network. A group of computers linked together, usually to share resources such as Printers or a File Server.
Landscape – Page or illustration wider than it is deep.
Laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) - The laser is an intense coherent light beam with very narrow bandwidth used in digital imaging devices to produce images by electronic impulses from computers.
Layout - The drawing or sketch of a proposed printed piece.
Leading - The space between lines of type, measured from the baseline of one line to the baseline of the next. The quantity is measured in points, such as 6-point type, 8-point, etc. Each point equals approximately 1/72 of an inch.
Lines per Inch (LPI) - Halftone screens are measured in lpi. Newspapers print photographs at 65 to 85 lpi, and this produces coarse-looking pictures. Our normal printing process uses 133 to 150 line screens. The industry rule of thumb is to scan your photographs at two times the lpi at which they are going to be printed. This means we scan our photographs at 250-300 dpi to achieve the best quality. Any higher dpi than twice the lpi will just increase the file size, but will have very little effect on the quality of the image.
Logo or Logotype - The name of a company or product in a special design used as a trademark in advertising.
Lupe - A magnifying lens used by printers to examine the details of printed materials. Use of a lupe permits an individual to see the individual colour halftone dots used in process colour printing.
