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Printing paper and industry terms.
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Feel
Printing & publishing; Paper
Term expressing an individual's impression of a paper's finish and stiffness or suppleness.
Sealed
Printing & publishing; Paper
Term often applied to cut size sheets which are packaged "ream sealed", 500 sheets to the package.
Feathering
Printing & publishing; Paper
Tendency of an ink image to spread with a fuzzy, "feather like" edge.
Tensile strength
Printing & publishing; Paper
Tensile strength relates to the stress and strain to which paper is subjected in its many end use applications. It is defined as the maximum force required to break a paper strip of a given width ...
Bonding strength
Printing & publishing; Paper
The strength of the paper fibres to resistance of picking or tearing during offset printing.
Head
Printing & publishing; Paper
The top of a page of text which can be a chapter heading, title line, etc…
Blanket contamination
Printing & publishing; Paper
Unwanted matter that becomes attached to the offset blanket and interferes with print quality.
