A guide to help you, Listing the terms e-mailed through to you

• 4 colour process – 4 cols. Used in overlay to produce full colour
• Butt cut – cut across the web with square corners
• Cores – what labels are wound onto – standard core sizes 25mm, 45mm , 76mm
• Die cut – cut within material across the web producing
• Digital – process of manufacture, high quality finish out of cmyk, ideal of labels with many variants
• Fan folded – perforated across web and folded
• Flexographic – process of manufacture, high quality finish, ideal for large quatities, plain and printed
• Foot First or FootLeading – bottom of labels comes off roll first
• Four Colour Process – produces design or picture out of cmyk
• Halftone – tiny printed dots giving shade variations to a colour
• Head First or Head Leading – top of label comes off roll first
• Hotfoil – process of manufacture using foils to produce spot colours
• ID – internal Diameter, used to describe core diameter
• Kiss Cut – no gap between each individual label
• Left-hand leading – left edge of label comes off roll first
• Linework – no halftones, vignettes or tight register
• Over-laminate – seals label with clear film for durability, matt or gloss finish
• PMS – Pantone Colours – Pantone standard scale matched ink reference for designers and printers
• Right-hand leading – right edge of label comes off first
• Spot colours – individual colours in addition to 4 col. Process
• Thermal Transfer – process of manufacture, computer based design using ribbons to print barcodes and variable information
• Tight Register – when print colours have no room to manoeuvre
• UV Varnish – seals label giving gloss, satin or matt finish
• Vignette – graduating shade using one colour
• N.E.L – Narrow Edge Leading
• W.E.L – Wide Edge Leading
• Winding code – which label edge leads first