Abbreviations & Acronyms

Like any industry, ours uses a variety of abbreviations and acronyms. If you want to find out what they mean, you are in the right place! Simply use the list below. If the abbreviation you are looking for is not in our list, please let us know and we will be glad to help as well as add it to our list.

AA

Author's Alterations

AC

Author's Corrections

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AP

Author's Proof

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AV

Audio Visual

B

Bytes

b

bits

B&W, BW

Black and White

BF

Bold Face

bit

Binary Digit

bpi

bits per inch

Bps, B/s

Bytes per second

BRI

Basic Rate Interface

C

Cyan

C1S

Coated on one Side

C2S

Coated on two Sides

CAD

Computer Aided Design, or Computer Aided Drafting

cap(s)

CAPital letter(s), uppercase letters

CD

Compact Disk

CD-I

Compact Disk Interactive

CD-ROM

Compact Disk Read Only Memory

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

CGM

Computer Graphics Metafile

CIE

Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage

CIP3

International Cooperation for Integration of Prepress, Press and Postpress

cm

Centimeters

cm2

Square centimeters

CMS

Color Management System

CMYK

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black

comp

COMPrehensive design

CPI

Characters Per Inch

CPL

Characters Per Line

CPM

Copies Per Minute

CPP

Characters Per Pica

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CR

Carriage Return

CTP

Computer To Plate

CWT

hundred WeighT

DAM

Digital Asset Management

DBMS

DataBase Management System

DDL

Document Description Language

DIN

Deutsch Industrie-Norm

DLL

Dynamic Link Library

DNS

Domain Name System

DP

Draft Proposal

DPI

Dots Per Inch

DTD

Document Type Definition

DTP

DeskTop Publishing

DVD

Digital Versatile Disk, Digital Video Disc

DVORAK

alternative keyboard layout

EDP

Electronic Data Processing

e.g.

for example

EPPF

Encapsulated PrePress Format

EPS

Encapsulated PostScript

fax

facsimile

F&G

Fold and Gather

flexo

flexography, flexographic

FPO

For Position Only

ft.

foot

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

G

Giga, one billion

GB

GigaByte

Gb

Gigabit

Gbps

Gigabits per second

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

gsm

grams per square meter

GUI

Graphical User Interface

H&J

Hyphenation and Justification

hr.

hour

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HSV

Hue, Saturation, and Value

HT

HalfTone

HTTP

Hypertext Transmission Protocol

IBC

Inside Back Cover

ICR

Intelligent Character Recognition

i.e.

that is

IFC

Inside Front Cover

IFT

Ink Film Thickness

in.

inch

in.2

square inches

IP

Internet Protocol

IPH

Impressions Per Hour

IPS

Inches Per Second

ISBN

International Book Number

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO

International Standards Organization

ISSN

International Standard Serial Number

JIT

Just In Time

JPEG, JPG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

K

Kilo, one thousand

KB

KiloByte

Kb

Kilobit

kg

kilogram

KPH

Keystrokes Per Hour

l.

line

LAN

Local Area Network

lb.

pound(s)

LC

LowerCase

litho

lithography, lithographic

LPC

Lines Per Centimeter

LPH

Lines Per Hour

LPI

Lines Per Inch

LUT

Look-Up Table

M

Mega, one million, Magenta

m

meter, milli

MB

MegaByte

Mb

Megabit

MBS

MegaBytes per Second

MbS

Megabits per Second

mg

milligram

MICR

Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

min.

minute(s)

MIPS

Million Instructions Per Second

MIS

Management Information Systems

modem

MOdulator-DEModulator

mm

millimeter

MS

manuscript

n

nano, 0.000000001

NCR

No-Carbon-Required paper

NCS

Natural Color System

NetBIOS

Network Basic Input Output System

nm

nanometer, 0.1 Angstroms

OA

Office Automation

OBC

Outside Back Cover

OBR

Optical Bar Reader/Recognition

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

ODR

Optical Dot Gain

OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturer

OFC

Outside Front Cover

OK

OKay

OLE

Object Linking and Embedding

OMR

Optical Mark Reader/Recognition

OPI

Open Prepress Interface

ortho

orthochromatic

OS

Operating System

p

pica

p., pp.

page(s)

par.

paragraph

PC

Personal Computer

PCL

Printer Control Language

PCR

Print Contrast Ratio

PDG

Physical Dot Gain

PDL

Page Description Language

PE

Printer's Error

pg.

page

PGP

Pretty Good Privacy

PIG

Process Ink Gamut chart

PING

Packet InterNet Groper

pixel

picture element

PMS

Pantone Matching System

PMT

Photo Mechanical Transfer

PO

Purchase Order, Position Only

Ppi

Pixels per inch

POP

Post Office Protocol, Point of Presence

POTS

Plain Old Telephone Service

PPM

Pages Per Minute

PPP

Point-to-Point Protocol

PRI

Primary Rate Interface

progs

progressive proofs

PS

PostScript

pt.

point

QWERTY

standard keyboard layout

R

Red

RAID

Redundant Array of Independent or Inexpensive Disks

RAM

Random Acces Memory

RC

Resin-Coated paper

RGB

Red, Green, Blue

RIP

Raster Image Processor

ROM

Read-Only Memory

ROP

Run Of Press

SC

Small Caps

SCSI

Small Computer Systems Interface

SDSL

Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line

sec.

second

SEO

Search Engine Optimization

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language

SIC

Standard Industrial Classification

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SP

Space Character

SPDL

Standard Page Description Language

sq.

square

spool

simultaneous peripheral operation on line

S/S, S.S.

Same Size

SWOP

Specifications for Web Offset Publications

T

Tera, one trillion

TB

TeraByte

Tb

Terabit

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

TI

Tone Index

TIF, TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

typo

typographic error

U&LC

Upper and LowerCase

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

UC

UpperCase

UCS

Uniform Color Space

USB

Universal Serial Bus

UUencode

Unix-to-Unix encode

UV

UltraViolet

vol.

volume(s)

VPN

Virtual Private Network

W2P

Web-To-Print

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

WAN

Wide Area Network

W&B

Work and Back

WF

Wrong Font

WPM

Words Per Minute

W&T

Work and Turn

WWW

World Wide Web

WYSIWYG

What You See Is What You Get

WYSIWYP

What You See Is What You Print

xDSL

all Digital Subscriber Lines

XML

eXtended Markup Language

XSL

Extensible Style Language

Y

Yellow

YMC

Yellow, Magenta, Cyan

YMCK

Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, and Black