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Rotary press

Printing & publishing; Paper

Printing press in which the plate is wrapped around a cylinder. There are two types, direct and indirect. Direct presses print with a plate cylinder and an impression cylinder. Indirect rotary ...

Backing up

Printing & publishing; Paper

Printing the reverse side of a sheet already printed on one side.

Two-up

Printing & publishing; Paper

Printing the same page or group of pages from two sets of plates, thereby producing two impressions of the same matter at one time.

Printing two or more colours without overlaying colour dots (i.e. Without colour trap); individual colour matching. This differs from process color, which is a blending of four colours to produce a ...

Quadratone

Printing & publishing; Paper

Printing with four half-tone images at different screen angles using four different colors. Usually the four colours would have a colour slant or cast towards a selected tone or color; for example a ...

Surface sized

Printing & publishing; Paper

Term applied to paper that has been sized by applying a sizing agent when the web of paper is partially dry. Purpose is to increase resistance to ink penetration.

Laid

Printing & publishing; Paper

Term describes the finish imparted by a dandy roll which features wires parallel to its axis that impress the paper during manufacture to produce a permanent watermark. The wires which produce the ...