A

A (A sizes)
AA(Authou's Alteration)
ACR(Achromatic Colour Reproduction)
ad(advertisement)
AD(Anno Domini)
AM(Amplitude modulation)
ANSI(American National Standard Institute)
ASA(American Standards Association)
ASC2(American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
ASR(Automatic Send and Receive)
ATS(Animal Tub Sized)

B
B (B sizes)
BASIC(Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
BC(Before Christ)

C
C (C sizes),
c&sc(capitals and small capitals)
CAD(Computer-Aided Design)
CATV(Community Antenna Television)
CAV(constant angular velocity)
CC(Colour Correction),(Colour Compensating)
CCD(Charge Coupled IDevice)
CCI(Computer Controlled Inking)
CCR(Complementary Colour Reduction)
CD(Compactg disc)
CD-ROM(Compact Disk Read Only Memory)
CIE(Commission Internationale del Eclairage)
CLV(constant linear velocity)
COBOL(Common Business Oriented Language)
CPC(Computer Print Control)
CPU(Central Processing Unit)
CRT(Cathode Ray Tube)

D
DIN(Dentral Industrie Normen)
DOS(Disk Operating System)
dpi(dots per inch)

E
EAN(European Article Number)
EAROM(Electricitally Alteragble Read Only Memory)
EBCDIC(Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code)
EPROM(Erasable Read Only Memory)

F
FIFO(First-in,first-out)
FM(Frepuency Modulation)

G
GATF(Graphic Arts Technical Foundation)
Gb(Gigabyte)
GCR(Grey Component Replacement)
GIGO(Garbage in,garbage out)
gsm(grams per square metre)

H
HWC(Heavy Weight Coated)
Hz(Hertz)

I
I/O(Input/Output)
IBM(International Business Machines)
ICR(Integrated Colour Removal)
ICR(Intelligent character recognition)
iph(impressions per hour)
ISBN(International Standard Book Number)
ISO(International Standardization Organization)
ISSN(International Standardd Serial Number)

K
k(kilo)
K(black)
K(Kelvin)
K(quantity of 1024)

L
L/C(Litter of Credit)
LAN(Local Area Network)
LASER(Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation)
lc(lower case)
LCD(Liquid Crystal Display)
LED(Light-Emitted Diode)
lpi(lines per inch)
LSI(Large Scale Integration)
LWC(Light Weight Coated)

M
M(machine direction)
M(Mega)
M(quantity of 1000)
mB(Magabyte)
MF(machine finished)
MG(Machine glazed)
MHz(Megahertz)
MICR(Magnetic Ink Character Recognition)
MS(Manuscript)
MWC(Medium Weight Coated)

N
NC(Nitro-cellulose)
NCR(No Carbon Required)
nm(nanometre)
ns(nanosecond)

O
OCR(Optical Character recognition)
OPP(Oriented Polypropylene)

P
PC(Personal Computer)
PCR(Polychromatic Colour Removal)
PCR(Programmed Colour Reduction)
PDL(Page Description Language)
pH(potential of hydrogen)
PMT(Photomechanical transfer)
ppc(printed paper case)
ppi(pages per inch)
PROLOG(Programming in loghic)
PROM(Programmable Read Only Memory)
PS(Presensitized)
PVA(Polyvinyl acetate)
PVC(Polyvinyl chloride)

R
RAM(Ramdon Access Memory)
RC(Resin Coated)
RH(Relative Huymidity)
RIFF(Raster Image File Format)
RIP(Raster image Processor)
ROM(Read Only Memory)
ROP(Run-of-paper/Run-of-priss/Run-of-print)

S
SCSI(Small Computer System Interface)
SPOOL(Simultaneous Peripheral Output On Line)
SWOP(Specifications for Web Offset Publications)

T
TIFF(Tagged Image File Format)
TMP(Thermomechanical pulp)
TTS(Teletypesetting)
TV(television)

U
U&LC(u/lc) (upper and lowerease)
UCR(Under-colour Removal)
UDF(User Defined Format)
UHF(Ultra high frequency)
UPC(Universal Products Code)
US(United States)
UV(Ultra-violet)

V
VDI(Vi9rtual Device Interface)
VDT(Visual Display Terminal)
VDU(Visual Display Unit)
VGA(Video Graphics Array)
VLSI(Very Large Scale Integration)

W
WAN (Wide Area Network)
wf (wrong fount)
WF (Woodfree)
WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)