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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.

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.