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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".
Platen press
Printing & publishing; Paper
A letterpress on which the printing form and the paper lie flat throughout the printing process.