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Printing paper and industry terms.

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Surface texture

Printing & publishing; Paper

The relative roughness, smoothness or unevenness of the paper surface.

Drying time

Printing & publishing; Paper

The time it takes for an ink to become rub- or tack-free.

Calliper

Printing & publishing; Paper

The thickness of a sheet paper, in thousandths of an inch (points or mils).

Press sheet

Printing & publishing; Paper

The full-size sheet of paper is selected for a job to be printed on a sheet-fed press. The sheet size is usually slightly larger than the negative flat, to allow for gripper and trim margins.

The imposition form; it indicates the sequence and positioning of negatives on the flat, which corresponds to printed pages on the press sheet. Once the sheet is folded, pages will be in consecutive ...