| Cable Paper |
| A strong paper used to wrap electrical cables. |
| Cadmium Yellow |
| A pigment made from cadmium sulfide and cadmium selenide. |
| Calendar Board |
| A strong paperboard used for calendars and displays. |
| Calendar Rolls |
| A series of metal rolls at the end of a paper machine; when the paper is passed between these rolls it increases its smoothness and glossy surface. |
| Caliper |
| The measurement of thickness of paper expressed in thousandths of an inch or mils. |
| Cameo |
| A dull coated paper, which is particularly useful in reproducing halftones and engravings. |
| Camera Ready |
| A term given to any copy, artwork etc., that is prepared for photographic reproduction. |
| Canvas Board |
| A paperboard with a surface of simulated canvas, used for painting. |
| Cap Line |
| An imaginary horizontal line running across the tops of capital letters. |
| Caps & Lower Case |
| Instructions in the typesetting process that indicate the use of a capital letter to start a sentence and the rest of the letters in lower case. |
| Caps & Small Caps |
| Two sizes of capital letters made in one size of type. |
| Carbon Black |
| A pigment made of elemental carbon and ash. |
| Carbon Tissue |
| A color printing process utilizing pigmented gelatin coatings on paper, which become the resist for etching gravure plates or cylinders. |
| Carbonate Paper |
| A chemical pulp paper (calcium carbonate), used mostly for the printing of magazines. |
| Cartridge |
| A rough finished paper used for wrapping. |
| Case |
| The stiff covers of a hardbound book. |
| Case Binding |
| Books bound using hard board (case) covers. |
| Casein |
| A milk byproduct used as an adhesive in making coated papers. |
| Casing In |
| The process of placing in and adhering a book to its case covers. |
| Cast Coated |
| A paper that is coated and then pressure dried using a polished roller which imparts an enamel like hard gloss finish. |
| Catching Up |
| A term to describe that period of the printing process where the non-image areas can take on ink or debris. |
| Chain Lines |
| Lines that appear on laid paper as a result of the wires of the papermaking machine. |
| Chalking |
| A term used to describe the quality of print on paper where the absorption of the paper is so great that it breaks up the ink image creating loose pigment dust. |
| Chancery Italic |
| A 13th century handwriting style which is the roots of italic design. |
| Chase |
| Frame of steel, or cast or wrought iron, in which images are locked up for printing. |
| China Clay |
| An aluminum silica compound used in gravure and screen printing inks. Also called kaolin. |
| Chrome Green |
| The resulting ink pigment attained from the mixture of chrome yellow and iron blue. |
| Chrome Yellow |
| A lead chromate yellow ink pigment. |
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