printability

Fit for press

Printability is the quality of being suitable for printing.

In publishing, it often refers to whether content is appropriate or acceptable to print: The editor questioned the printability of the explicit passages.

In technical contexts, it describes how well a material or file performs in the printing process: The ink's printability on glossy paper was excellent.

substrate

texture

Surface tactile quality

weight · opacity · brightness · acid-free · archival · watermark · fiber · coated · uncoated · cardstock

output

inkjet

Spray-based printing method

screenprinting · gravure · digital · press · CMYK · cyan · magenta · yellow · black · resolution

ink

colorfastness

Resistance to fading

saturation · bleed-through · feathering · viscosity · pigment · toner · cure · fastness · density · spread

legibility

readability

Ease of understanding text

typeset · characters · letters · glyphs · serif · sans-serif · script · cursive · calligraphy · handwriting

Categories
Opposites
capacity to be printed

printabilityillegibility

Impossible to decipher

unreadability · incompatibility · unformattable · corrupted

suitability for publication

printabilityobscenity

Indecent word or act

offensiveness · indecency · unsuitability · censorship · libel

Family

print, printer, printing, printed, blueprint, prints, footprint, imprint, reprint

Familiarity
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