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Printing paper and industry terms.

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Driers

Printing & publishing; Paper

Wet paper passes through these large cylindrical steam heated rolls that dry paper webs. The dry-end of the paper machine.

Rag paper

Printing & publishing; Paper

Today it is usually referred to as cotton fibre paper. It is made from cotton cuttings and linters.

Fountain

Printing & publishing; Paper

The unit on a press that contains ink to be fed to the distributing system, and the part that feeds the fountain solution to the dampening system.

Tack

Printing & publishing; Paper

The pulling power or separation force of ink causing picking or splitting of weak papers.

Jog

Printing & publishing; Paper

To align sheets of paper into a compact pile.

Page flex

Printing & publishing; Paper

The number of flexes a book page can withstand before loosening from the binding.

Primary colours

Printing & publishing; Paper

The three basic colors—yellow, red, and blue—from which all other colours can be mixed.

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