1) Printing is a reproduction process in which printing
ink is applied to a printing substrate in order to
transmit information (images, graphics, text) in a
repeatable form using an image-carrying medium
(e.g., a printing plate).

2) The image carrying medium is the storage element
(i. e., printing plate or bitmap for controlling ink jet
nozzles) that contains all the information needed
to apply the ink for the reproduction of images
and/or text by printing.

3) The printing plate or image carrier (master) is the
tool (material) by which ink is transferred to the
printing substrate or an intermediate carrier
for the reproduction of text, graphics and/or images.
One printing plate usually generates many
prints.

4) The print image is the information provided by the
entirety of all the print image elements in all operational
stages of an image to be produced by printing.

5) The print image element is an area that transfers
and/or receives ink (e.g., letter type face, line,
screen dot or cells) in any operational stage of the
presentation to be reproduced by printing.

6) The ink is the colored substance that is applied to
the printing substrate during printing.

7) The printing substrate is the material receiving the
print.

8) The printing press is the equipment with which the
printing process is performed.

9) The printing process serves to disseminate/reproduce
information that is transmitted and processed
within this procedural framework.

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