The beginning of the printing industry - a large inventory of abbreviated terms (1)

In print media at home and abroad, acronyms are constantly appearing in Western languages, causing inconvenience and confusion to readers. This chapter has collected more than 80 abbreviations related to printing technology, indicating its full name in English and Express its technical meaning concisely, easy for readers to read.

ADF:Advertising Distribution Format An electronic manuscript format for advertising manuscripts jointly developed by Japan Dentsu Technology and Japan's Scitex.

ASP: Application Service Provider means a paid service provider with an application deadline. Can be translated into a software service company.

BF: Business Form means the amount of data that can be transmitted per second, expressed in bits/second.

CCD: Charge Coupled Device means a device that converts optical signals into electrical signals. Translated as a charge coupled device.

CEPS: Color Electronic Prepress System Since the 1980s, a dedicated image processing system for printing plates. Translated into a color electronic prepress system.

CG: Computer Graphics.

CGATS: Commitee for Graphic Arts Technologies-Srardards (USA) Printing Process Technical Standards Committee.

CHTML: Compact Hyper Text Mardup ​​Language.

CIELab: It is an indicator for numerical grading by the International Society for Illumination (CIE). The color is numerically represented in the three-dimensional space of L, a, and b.

CIP3: Co-operation for Integration of Prepress, Press, Postpress means a system that manages data from prepress, print, and postpress using standardized data. Translated into pre-press, printing, post-press integration cooperation system.

CIP4: Added the concept of managing Process in the process of CIP3. Translated into pre-press, printing, post-press and management integration cooperation system.

CMYK: Four primary colors. Refers to Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black. Translated into blue, magenta, yellow and black.

CRM: Customer Relationshop Manegement Customer Relationship Management.

CT: Continuous Tone continuous tone.

CTP: Computer to Plate means a system in which digital data is directly exposed on a printing plate using a laser to make a printing plate, which is translated into computer-to-plate. Another Computer to Press refers to the direct plate making, Computer to Print refers to direct printing and other non-printing.
DAM: Digital Assets Management.

DB: Data base database.

The DCF: Design rule for Camera File System allows images captured by digital cameras to be used by various electronic devices and developed by the Japan Electronics Industry Promotion Association.

DCS:Desktop Color Separation Image data storage format developed by Quark, USA.

DDAP: The Digital Distribution of Advertising for Publication is an association that publishes electronic advertisements. It is a non-profit organization in the United States.

DDCP: Direct Digital Color Proof direct digital color proofing.

DFE: Digital Front End means RIP and similar hardware or software that transfers data to an output machine. Can be translated as a digital front end.

DI: Direct Imaging refers to a system that directly forms a printing plate on a PS plate without using film exposure. Translated into a direct imaging system.

DLT: Digital Linear Tape is a tape drive developed by DIC, USA. Can be translated into a digital linear band.

Dip:dot per inch shows how many pixels per inch.

DPOF: Digital Print Order Format means a format that is used when recording the information specified by a digital camera, such as a layout or number of sheets to be printed, on a medium such as a memory card. Translated into digital printing processing format.

DTP: Desktop Publishing Desktop Publishing.

DVD: Digital Versatile Disk is a digital large-capacity optical disc that distinguishes it from Digital Video Disk.

EAI: Enterprise Application Integration refers to the data exchange technology used to form a new system based on the data exchange between databases or application software between different systems, combined with the original system. Translated into corporate planning application software integration.