Glossary
Office Machine Operator Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential office machine operator terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key office machine operator vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in office machine operator training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Binding
- Fastening pages.
- Bleed
- Print to the edge.
- Coil binding
- Spiral binding.
- Collate
- Arrange pages in order.
- DPI
- Dots per inch.
- Duplex
- Two-sided printing.
- Finishing
- Cutting, folding, binding.
- Imposition
- Arranging pages for printing.
- Jam
- Paper stuck in a machine.
- Paper weight
- Paper thickness.
- Perfect binding
- Glued spine.
- Print queue
- Jobs waiting.
- Proof
- Test print.
- Ream
- 500 sheets.
- Toner
- Copier ink powder.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Office Machine Operator practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Office Machine Operator training.
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