Trapping

    Usually we get blank stares when we use this word. It seems kinda abstract, but when you think about how a printing press works it makes since. In a job with more than one color, two colors butt up against each other. If one of them is off just a tiny bit you are left with the color of the paper showing where they were to meet. How the printing industry handles that is to have just a tiny bit of overlap of one of the colors onto the other. Unless one gets up very close to the piece it is never seen. This is trapping. We like .25 of a point (more printer talk) or .25pt. Don’t worry your programs know what we mean. Trapping makes the difference in color work especially if you are using spot colors.