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Letterforms, and the making of pages

Tag: #press

Printing · · 2 min read

Trapping, overprint, and the black that is not black

Two adjacent colours will not line up perfectly, not on any press ever built. Trapping is deciding in advance which one loses, and rich black is the same decision made about the darkest thing on the page.

Registration, and the millimetre that ruins a spread

Printing · · 2 min read

Registration, and the millimetre that ruins a spread

Four inks, four passes, and one of them a hair out of place. Everything you know about print colour — trapping, rich black, the fear of hairline type in three colours — follows from that single millimetre.