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Joliet

A CD-ROM recording format for Windows PCs that allows long file names.

Job ticket

A docket to keep track of pre-press and color reproduction jobs by service bureaus.

Jaggies

extend. jagged image, bitmapped, aliased
An image that has been scanned at too low a pixel resolution will appear pixilated. If the graphic is output at too low a printed resolution, it will also appear jagged or aliased. Sometimes also referred to as bitmapped.

Jaggies can aslo occur to linked images which have been output to a high resolution printer, or an imagesetter, but where the original linked image file is missing.

See also: Alias, bitmapping