A heavy pasted board.

Image to be inked and printed. Plates--relief, planographic or intaglio; from plate, cylinder, stone or stencil.

Embossed, machine-made paper, finished with special felt rollers to simulate hand-made papers.

Laying out of pages in a press form so that they will be in correct order after the printed sheet of paper is folded.

Method of producing a watermark by means of a rubber design on a marking roll which presses the mark into the moist sheet as it passes over a press or smoothing roll. Sometimes called a "rubber mark."

Pressure of type or blanket as it comes in contact with paper.

Accessory on web presses used to imprint one side of the web with rubber plates.

Manufactured on Fourdrinier machines from chemical wood pulp. Index bristols are characterized by strength, ruggedness and erasability.

See bible paper.

Light buff or beige color found in printing papers.

In printing, ink transfer from image carrier to blanket to paper. Offset presses are indirect printing processes. They consist of plate cylinder, blanket cylinder and impression cylinder.

Broad term referring to papers manufactured for industrial uses such as packaging, cardboards, tissues and wrapping papers.

Absorption of infra-red light by most inks and carbon images.

Synonym for mottled or granite appearance found in some papers.

Extent of ink penetration into paper.

Reservoir from which ink is metered to the rollers of a printing press.

Resistance to the penetration of ink vehicle; ink hold-out.

Ink is applied by squeegee, immersion or roller. Letterpress and offset presses are inked with rollers. In the gravure process, cylinders are immersed in a formation of ink. Stencil printing usually employs a squeegee. Then there is the electrostatic principal employed in xerography, a form of impactless printing.

Instrument used to determine the stickiness, or tack, essential to the inks used in multicolor printing. The tack must be decreased with each additional color printed to prevent lift-off of colors already applied.

Type or design etched into a metal plate as opposed to raised letters as in letterpress.

A paper mill which manufactures enough pulp to supply its own papermaking needs.

In data processing, the point at which two systems or units overlap or meet to link two machines.

Accessory sheet between the leaves or parts of a form set.

Finish obtained by calendering through rolls on which beeswax has been rubbed.