Printing Glossary – Terms starting with J
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Jacket |
Or dust jacket. The paper cover sometimes called the “dust cover” of a hardbound book. |
Job Lot Paper |
Paper that didn’t meet specifications when produced, has been discontinued, or for other reasons is no longer considered first quality |
Job Number |
A number assigned to a specific printing project in a printing company for use in tracking and historical record keeping |
Job Ticket |
Form used by service bureaus, separators and printers to specify production schedule of a job and the materials it needs. Also called docket, production order and work order |
Jog |
To vibrate a stack of finished pages so that they are tightly aligned for final trimming or binding. |
Jogger |
A vibration machine with a slopping platform to even-up stacks of printed materials |
Justification |
Adjusting the spacing or hyphenation of words and characters to fill a given line of text from end to end. Sometimes referred to as word spacing. |