Paper production

Paper production

Paper manufacturing and production terms.

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Beater

Printing & publishing; Paper

Blender-type machine used to pulverise pulp and for mixing additives and colour to the stock.

Wet-end

Printing & publishing; Paper

Beginning of the paper machine where the headbox, moving wire and press section are located. At this point the paper is still a suspension of fibre and water.

At the wet end of the paper machine, a copper, bronze or synthetic screen that receives the suspension of water and fibre from the head-box. The wire moves the suspension along to the dry end of the ...

Uniformity

Printing & publishing; Paper

Being uniform in the structure of the paper, the colour and finish.

Fog

Printing & publishing; Paper

An undesirable neutral density in the clear areas of a photographic film or paper, in which the image is either locally or entirely veiled by a deposit of silver. Fog may be due to flare, unsafe ...