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Slurring

Printing & publishing; Paper

The smearing or elongation of halftone dots or type and line images at their trailing edges.

Wet rolls

Printing & publishing; Paper

Water or dampness on the edge of the roll can weld or bond the paper together, which will then break on the infeed, a problem easily determined by the press crew.

Work and tumble

Printing & publishing; Paper

To print one side of a sheet of paper, then turn it over from gripper to back using the same side guide and plate to print the second side.

Process inks

Printing & publishing; Paper

Transparent inks, finely ground and manufactured for use in the four-color process.

Pinholes

Printing & publishing; Paper

Tiny holes or imperfections on the surface of the paper caused by the presence of foreign matter on the paper surface during manufacture.

Water, gum buffered acid, and various types of etches used to keep the non-image areas of the plate moist, and preventing them from accepting ink, in the lithographic printing process; also called ...

Opaque

Printing & publishing; Paper

The more opaque a sheet of paper is, the less transparent it is. High opacity in printing papers is a good characteristic as print from the other side of a printed leaf has less "show-through".