Paper production

Paper production

Paper manufacturing and production terms.

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Stretch resistance

Printing & publishing; Paper

Stretch properties are essential for paper to fold well and to resist stress in use. Stretch resistance is measured on tensile testing instruments.

Fibrillae

Printing & publishing; Paper

String-like elements that are loosened from the paper fibres during the beating process. They aid in the bonding processes when paper is being manufactured.

Bulk

Printing & publishing; Paper

Sheet thickness. High-bulk sheets have fewer sheets per inch than low-bulk.

Fibre

Printing & publishing; Paper

Smallest unit of vegetable growth which is used to make paper pulps. Most commonly, fibre derives its name from the location where it grows, i.e., leaf fiber, stem fiber.

Guide roller

Printing & publishing; Paper

Sometimes called a cocking roller. Located on the roll stand between the roll of paper and the dancer roll. Can be cocked to compensate for certain paper roll conditions.

Opacity

Printing & publishing; Paper

Sometimes referred to as "show-through" this term refers to the property of a sheet which prevents dark print areas from showing through the paper to the other side.

Spectrophotometer

Printing & publishing; Paper

Sophisticated instrument that measures colour across a visible spectrum and produces data describing the colour of a given sample in terms of the three parameters in colour space.