Bindery

Saddle Stitch: To bind by stapling sheets together where they fold at the spine, as compared to side stitch. Also called pamphlet stitch, saddle wire and stitch bind.

Comb Bind: To bind by inserting the teeth of a flexible plastic comb through holes punched along the edge of a stack of paper. Also called plastic bind and GBC bind (a brand name).

Case Bind: (special request only) To bind using glue to hold signatures to a case made of binder board covered with fabric, plastic or leather. Also called cloth bind, edition bind, hard bind and hard cover.

Spiral Bound: Special up charge for this, and it cost a lot more. To bind using a spiral of continuous wire or plastic looped through holes. Also called coil bind.

Perfect Bind: To bind sheets that have been ground at the spine and are held to the cover by glue. Also called adhesive bind, cut-back bind, glue bind, paper bind, patent bind, perfecting bind, soft bind and soft cover.

Glued Edge: Refers to sheets being help together by a glue on the edge such as with a common pad of papers.

Snap-Outs: Used to hold 2 or more sheets of paper together by gluing 1/4 to 1/2 of the tops of the sheets together. Then they are perforated at top allowing one sheet to be removed while the remaining sheets are held together. Used mainly in forms.

Collate: To organize printed matter in a specific order as requested.

Gate Fold: This method will cost 3 times the listed price for folding A sheet that folds where both sides fold toward the gutter in overlapping layers.

Letter Fold: Two folds creating three panels that allow a sheet of letterhead to fit a business envelope. Also called barrel fold and wrap around fold.

Tri Fold: This is the most common and affordable fold also called Z fold. Typically you have 2 folds leaving you with 3 panels when view from the size it looks like the letter "Z"

Parallel Fold: Method of folding. Two parallel folds to a sheet will produce 6 panels.

Score: To compress paper along a straight line so it folds more easily and accurately. Also called a crease.

Coatings

Aqueous Coating: Coating in a water base and applied like ink by a printing press to protect and enhance the printing underneath.

UV Coating: Liquid applied to a printed sheet, then bonded and cured with ultraviolet light.

Lamination: A thin transparent plastic sheet (coating) applied to usually a thick stock (covers, post cards, etc.) providing protection against liquid and heavy use, and usually accents existing color, providing a glossy (or lens) effect.

Varnish: Liquid applied as a coating for protection and appearance.

C1S and C2S: Abbreviations for coated one side and coated two sides. However this doesn't suggest or imply the use of any other additional coating as show above. A sheet that is coated implies it has a reflective appearance unlike copy paper.

Matte Finish: Flat (not glossy) finish on photographic paper or coated printing paper but with a noticeable shin.

Uncoated: Type of paper such as copy paper, newsprint, or other non shiny papers, without any coatings.

Printing Terminology

Bleeds: Printing that extends to the edge of a sheet or page after trimming.

1/0: printing 1 color on 1 side, no printing on the other side
2/0: printing 2 colors on 1 side, no printing on the other side
3/0: printing 3 colors on 1 side, no printing on the other side
4/0: printing typically full color CMYK on 1 side, no printing on the other side. However this can also mean 4 PMS or Spot colors.
4/4: printing full color both sides
1/1: printing 1 color on 1 side and 1 color printing on the other

When you see a 5th color listed it implies an additional coating or PMS color. PMS stands for Pantone Matching System. All U.S. printers follow this book of colors to identify an exact shade or color to print. This is how you are assured you will get the same shade of that color each print run.

What Is a Patent?

A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. The term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, in special cases, from the date an earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment of maintenance fees. U.S. patent grants are effective only within the U.S., U.S. territories, and U.S. possessions.

The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the statute and of the grant itself, “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling” the invention in the United States or “importing” the invention into the United States. What is granted is not the right to make, use, offer for sale, sell or import, but the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the invention.

What Is a Trademark or Servicemark?

A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device which is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others. A servicemark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product. The terms "trademark" and "mark" are commonly used to refer to both trademarks and servicemarks.

Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using a confusingly similar mark, but not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly different mark. Trademarks which are used in interstate or foreign commerce may be registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. The registration procedure for trademarks and general information concerning trademarks is described in a separate pamphlet entitled "Basic Facts about Trademarks".

What Is a Copyright?

Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of “original works of authorship” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished. The 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work, to perform the copyrighted work publicly, or to display the copyrighted work publicly.

The copyright protects the form of expression rather than the subject matter of the writing. For example, a description of a machine could be copyrighted, but this would only prevent others from copying the description; it would not prevent others from writing a description of their own or from making and using the machine. Copyrights are registered by the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.

When can I use the trademark symbols TM, SM and ®?

Any time you claim rights in a mark, you may use the "TM" (trademark) or "SM" (service mark) designation to alert the public to your claim, regardless of whether you have filed an application with the USPTO. However, you may use the federal registration symbol "®" only after the USPTO actually registers a mark, and not while an application is pending. Also, you may use the registration symbol with the mark only on or in connection with the goods and/or services listed in the federal trademark registration.