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title: "What is 'trapping'?"
description: "Trapping is a prepress technique aimed at minimizing the effect of misregistration in full-color printing. Misregistration is the slight misalignment of th"
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timestamp: 2026-07-20T18:54:40.856Z
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# What is 'trapping'?

Trapping is a prepress technique aimed at minimizing the effect of misregistration in full-color printing. Misregistration is the slight misalignment of th

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