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Sheridan saddle stitcher-trimmer

Printing & publishing; Paper

A machine used to gather, cover, stitch, and trim saddle stitch books.

Prescreen

Printing & publishing; Paper

A lower contrast halftone, printed on glossy photographic paper for direct pasteup with line copy, to avoid stripping of a halftone negative into a line negative.

Cross machine direction

Printing & publishing; Paper

A line perpendicular to the direction the paper travels through the papermaking machine. Also referred to as Cross direction or Cross grain.

Onionskin

Printing & publishing; Paper

A lightweight, cockle finish paper used for making copies of correspondence.

Ghost halftone

Printing & publishing; Paper

A light halftone that may be overprinted with solid copy.

Chemical ghosting

Printing & publishing; Paper

A light duplication of a printed image on the other side of the same sheet, created by chemical reaction by the ink during the drying stages; also referred to as "Gas ghosting".