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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) - Industry-standard computer database and communication systems for intra- or inter-company exchange of information such as inventories, orders and invoices.

Electronic Dot Generation - Method of producing halftones electronically on scanners and prepress systems.

Electronic file storage - Storage of customers?electronic production files for possible future use (akin to storing customer negatives).

Electronic Mail or E-Mail - A message service that uses telecommunications and electronics to deliver soft or hard copy information.

Electronic printing, black or spot color - Technology that reproduces pages in black or black plus spot (highlight) colors directly from a computer file without negatives, plates, etc., typically using electrostatic or electrophotographic processes.

Electronic printing, full color - Technology that reproduces pages in process colors directly from a computer file without negatives, plates, etc., typically using electrostatic or electrophotographic processes.

Electronic Publishing - A configuration of hardware and software used for digital page composition. The term includes desktop publishing and high-end systems.

Electrophotography - Image transfer system used in copiers to produce images using electrostatic forces.

Elliptical Dot - An elongated or oval halftone dot used to minimize the midtone jump in dot gain at the point where dots are large enough to connect.

Em - A measure of space exactly as high and wide as the point size of the typeface being used.

Em Dash - A dash, one em long, used to separate parenthetical phrases within a sentence - like this.

Emboss - To press an image into paper so it lies above the surface.

Emulsion - The light-sensitive coating on photographic film, plates or stencils.

En - A measure of space equal to one-half of an em space in the same point size and typeface.

En Dash - A dash, one en long, used to indicate range as in "see pages 4-5."

Enamel - A term applied to a coated paper or to a coating material on a paper.

End Sheet - Sheet that attaches the inside pages of a case bound book to its cover.

Engraving - Printing method using a plate, also called a die, with an image cut into its surface.

Enhanced multi-color ("high-fidelity") printing - Full-color printing using six, seven or more "process" colors instead of the traditional four.

EPS - Encapsulated PostScript. A way of storing visual data so that it can be exchanged between programs or different computer systems.

Estimate - A statement of what a print job will probably cost based on specified quantities, materials and labor.

Etch - To use chemicals to carve an image into plates and film or an acid solution used to desensitize the non-printing areas of the plate.

Exposure - The quantity of light that is allowed to act on a photographic material. The product of the intensity and the duration of the light acting on the emulsions.

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