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Bristol board
Printing & publishing; Paper
A high quality heavy weight paper, sometimes made with cotton fibre prepared or glued together, usually with a calliper thickness of 0. 006" and up.
Silhouette halftone
Printing & publishing; Paper
A halftone image which is outlined by removing the dots that surround it.
Outline halftone
Printing & publishing; Paper
A halftone image which is outlined by removing the dots that surround it.
The gatf slur gauge
Printing & publishing; Paper
A combination dot gain and slur indicator supplied in positive or negative form. It is a quality control device that shows at a glance dot gain or dot loss. It also demonstrates whether the gain or ...
Flatbed press
Printing & publishing; Paper
A press on which plates are positioned along a flat metal bed against which the paper is pressed by the impression cylinder, as compared to a rotary press which prints from curved plates.
Smearing
Printing & publishing; Paper
A press condition in which the impression is slurred and unclear, because too much ink was used or sheets were handled or rubbed before the ink was dry.
Water in ink
Printing & publishing; Paper
A press condition of too much water, which breaks down ink.