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Glossary


Offset Printing
A printing process that uses metal plates and ink; it is characterized by the use of a blanket cylinder, a rubber plate that picks up the image from the metal plate itself and then transfers that image onto the sheet of paper. In offset printingI, the actual plate never directly touches the paper.