Aug 30, 2000 16:36
23 yrs ago
French term

filets a fond

French to English Other
relating to problems with printing

more of sentence: lors de l'impression sur des lasers de bureau: logos dans les marges non imprimables, filets a fond perdu, polices de caracteres inexistantes sur PC, etc.

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One of those sentences that don't admit of piece-by-piece translation. Take it as a whole, and think about the problems that can occur with laser printers: "When office laser printers are used: logos in non-printing margins; faded rules [or "ruled lines"]; type sizes that aren't stored in the PC, etc."

(A note on "type sizes": The sizes of printed characters are measured in _points_, with 1 point = 1/72 inch. "Twelve-point-type," for instance, refers to characters that are 1/6 inch high (not including ascenders and descenders, such as the "tails" of lower-case 'p', 'q', et al., and the "stems" of lower-case 'b', 'd', et al.). Often, the character-generation program in a text editor or word-processing program doesn't include versions of the font that are present in the memory of the printer.)
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"à fond perdu" : "bleed" or "bleed off"

actually, "à fond perdu" is an expression in itself. "bleed" and "bleed off" are synonyms. Sorry, I have no definition, only a domain :
Domaine(s)imprimerie / impression de l'imprimé
For "filet", I'm not very sure but here are the terms I've found in my dictionary, for printing:
"rule": Line of varying thickness separating the columns or the various elements of the settling.
"rule":lines separating or enclosing type matter in coldtype application.

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Yolanda Broad
Heathcliff
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