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Waste - A term for planned spoilage.

Watermark - an impression incorporated in the paper making process showing the name of the paper and/or the company logo.

Web - a continuous roll of printing paper used on web-fed presses.

Web press - The name of a type of presses that print from rolls of paper.

Weight - the degree of boldness or thickness of a letter or font.

Wf - an abbreviation for 'wrong font'. Used when correcting proofs to indicate where a character is in the wrong typeface.

Widow - a single word left on the last line of a paragraph that falls at the top of a page.

Windows - a software technique that allows a rectangular area of a computer screen to display output from a program. With a number of programs running at one time, several windows can appear on the screen at one time. Information can be cut and pasted from one window to another. The best known version of "windows" is that developed by Microsoft.

Wire - the wire mesh used at the wet end of the paper making process. The wire determines the textures of the paper.

Wire O - A bindery trade name for mechanical binding using double loops of wire through a hole.

Wire-O binding - A method of wire binding books along the binding edge that will allow the book to lay flat using double loops. See Wire O.

Wire stitching - see saddle or side stitching.

With the grain - Folding or feeding paper into the press or folder parallel to the grain of the paper.

Woodfree paper - made from chemical pulp only with size added. Supplied calendered or supercalendered.

Word break - the division of a word at the end of a line.

Word wrap - in word processing, the automatic adjustment of the number of words on a line of text to match the margin settings. The carriage returns set up by this method are termed "soft", as against "hard" carriage returns resulting from the return key being pressed.

Work and turn - a method of printing where pages are imposed in one form or assembled on one film. One side is then printed and the sheet is then turned over and printed from the other edge using the same form. The finished sheet is then cut to produce two complete copies.

Work and tumble - a method of printing where pages are again imposed together. The sheet is then printed on one side with the sheet being turned or tumbled from front to rear to print the opposite side.

Wove - a finely textured paper without visible wire marks.

WYSIWYG What-you-see-is-what-you-get (pronounced "wizzywig") - used to describe systems that preview full pages on the screen with text and graphics. The term can however be a little misleading due to difference in the resolution of the computer screen and that of the page printer.