Glossary of Full Color Printing Terms Starting with the Letter "Z"
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Z-fold — Two parallel folds in a sheet of paper. One fold comes towards the reader, and the other goes away from the reader. Also known as 'concertina fold.' Commonly used to produce DL-sized flyers, pamphlets, leaflets and brochures from A4-sized paper, and Six page A4 flyers, pamphlets, leaflets and brochures.
Zig-zag folding — The fanfolding used on continuous forms to convert roll paper to a continuous flat stack of forms. It is also called concertina folding.
Zip — A program that compresses (i.e.: shrinks) files down in size so that can be uploaded, downloaded and E-mailed with greater ease:
- PC users, click here to get WinZip if you don't have it — this is a quality program for which you must pay. If you want a freeware or shareware program (i.e.: the program does not cost you a cent), then visit 7-Zip and download the free PC-based program.
- Mac users, click here to get Stuffit if you don't have it — this is a quality program for which you must pay.
Zoom — Increasing the size of an object (e.g.: a page, or a specific part of a page) for editing purposes, or to simply be able to see the object/page more easily.
