Embossing:
Marking a text, logotype or any other graphic feature as hollow-engraved or with raised relief.

Gold stamping:
Marking a text, logotype or any other graphic feature by hot-stamping a leaf of gold, silver or any other hue.

Screen Printing:
Printing based on the stencil technique with a silk-fabric screen or metallic trellis. Colours and materials are thus applied in a series of runs. A single colour may require several runs, depending on the surface being treated and the preferred level of colour transparency. Screen-printing is often used for thick surfaces or for applying UV varnish. It gives very good and essentially line-focused colour rendering and a thicker coat of ink than you get with offset printing.
The Concept Book® includes screen-printed covers, most notably in our Prestige collection.

Sticker:
A customized surface given a specific size according to the base, printed then varnished or laminated on a top quality permanent adhesive base. The full finished is then positioned on the front cover of Notebooks, Jotters (Pocket and Small Notebooks) and Guest Visitor Books.

Card:
Cover material of over 200 g.
The Concept Book® cards are chosen for their quality, specific features, environmental qualities, colour and thickness which is aligned on our particular products.

Coated:
Printed paper coated on one or both sides in order to enhance its appearance and printability. Coated paper selected by The Concept Book® is double-sided to give higher-quality and smoother rendering of images and colours.

Sheet:
Equivalent to 2 pages, the front and back of one and the same sheet.

Note paper background:
The background graphics (blank, ruled, squared) of paper for notes. The Concept Book® features a choice of specific page backgrounds geared to your field of business, user habits and/or your company’s graphic identity.

Offset :
Paper given surface treatment to improve its quality and print rendering. The Concept Book® offers a specific range of Offset paper for printing our note pages with a minimum weight of 90 g.

Page :
One side of a sheet of paper. E.g.: the front side of a sheet (cf. sheet).

Cover page:
The introductory page(s) of your notebook.
Cover pages can be used to develop a specific theme according to the person it is intended for and how it will be used.
Examples: a word of welcome, the agenda for a seminar or convention, a company’s financial results if the notebook is produced for a finance meeting, a company presentation in a notebook to be used as part of business development, a message of seasonal or birthday greetings in a product designed for a special corporate event…

Recycled:
Recycled paper is produced with recovered used paper that is shredded, filtered then soaked in vats – a phase that may include ink-removal – and then reworked into paper pulp. Paper is said to be recycled when its composition includes over 50% of Recovered Cellulose Fibres (RCF). The rendering rate for recycling is in the region of 80 to 90 %. In other words, a ton of old paper supplies around 850 kg of recycled paper.
The Concept Book® proposes 100% recycled offset paper that is not reprocessed for whiteness.

2-colour process:
2-colour printing.

3-colour process:
3-colour printing.

Primary colours:
Magenta, Cyan, Yellow & Black (CMYB). These four primary inks are used for the offset printing of any colour document.

Cromalin :
A machine proof for a document generally produced using a high-definition PDF file and used as a colour reference for printing.

Bleed Off:
The overrun of items beyond the page size when printing up to the edge of the page, to be added when producing files in the page’s finished format.
The bleed-off requested by The Concept Book® is 3 mm.

Pantone :
The international colour reference for printing one or more direct tone colours.

Lamination:
Application to a surface of a finish film in matte or gloss polyester.

4-colour process:
4-colour printing using the 4 primary colours (CMYB).

Direct tone:
Pantone colour (the international colour reference frame).
Treating a Pantone colour requires a specific ink and machine run independently of primary colours. The Concept Book® prints your note pages in 1 colour using your choice of Pantone references.

Machine varnish:
Colourless ink that protects the base surface.
The Concept Book® applies a varnish finish to stickers and recommends the same for treating cover pages.

Labels & Certification:
Officially recognized symbols of quality attesting to a specific characteristic. Labels and certifications are also used in the stationery sector.
As a key component in the approach deployed by The Concept Book®, respect for the environment runs through every option we make. The listed covers and papers all carry the major recognized environment-friendly labels:

- ECF: Elementary Chlorine Free,
- TCF: Totally Chlorine Free,
- FSE: Forest Stewardship Council for the sustainable development of forests,
- PECF: Programme Européen de Certification Forestière/European Forest Certification Programme,
- Blue Angel(Der Blauer Angel): the world’s first and oldest environmental label: paper produced using 100% recycled fibres, whose manufacture and composition are strictly regulated.