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SADDLE-STITCHING - To fasten a booklet by wiring through the middle fold of the sheets.
SCANNER - An electronic device used in the making of color and tone-corrected separation of images.
SCORE - To impress or indent a mark with a rule in the paper to make folding easier.
SCREEN RULING - The number of lines or dots per inch on a halftone screen.
SELF-COVER - A cover of the same paper as the inside pages.
SET-OFF - When the ink of a printed sheet rubs off or marks the next sheet as it is being delivered. Also called offset.
SILHOUETTE HALFTONE - A halftone of a subject with all the background removed.
SPIRAL BINDING - A book bound with wires in a spiral form inserted through holes punched along the binding side.
STET - A Proofreaders mark, written in the margin, signifying that copy marked for corrections should remain as it was.
STOCHASTIC SCREENING - A digital screening process that converts images into very small dots of equal size and variable spacing.
STRIPPING - In image assembly, the position of negatives or positives to compose a page or layout for traditional platemaking.
SURPRINT - The exposure from a second film negative superimposed on an exposed image of a previous negative.