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Fill

Printing & publishing; Paper

Maximum width of paper that can be made on any given paper machine.

Register

Printing & publishing; Paper

In printing, register is the placement of two or more images on the same paper in such a manner as to make them in perfect alignment with each other. When a printing job is in exact register ...

UV inks

Printing & publishing; Paper

In printing, solventless inks that are cured by UV radiation. They are used extensively in screen printing, narrow web letterpress and flexographic printing.

Piling

Printing & publishing; Paper

In printing, the building up or caking of ink on rollers, plate or blanket; will not transfer readily. Also, the accumulation of paper dust or coating on the blanket of offset press.

Poor trapping

Printing & publishing; Paper

In printing, the condition in wet printing in letterpress and lithography when less ink transfers to previously printed ink than to unprinted paper.

Impression cylinder

Printing & publishing; Paper

In printing, the cylinder on a printing press against which the paper picks up the impression from the inked plate in direct printing, or the blanket in offset printing.