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imprinter

Printing & publishing; Paper

An auxiliary printing unit, usually employing rubber letterpress plates; imprints copy on top side of web and permits imprint copy to be changed while press is running at full speed.

An application of opaque to photographic negatives; also the application of special lacquer to protect areas in positives in dot etching; staging of halftone plates during relief etching; protecting ...

solid

Printing & publishing; Paper

An area completely covered with ink, or the use of 100% of a given color. In composition, type set without space (leading) between the lines.

tinting

Printing & publishing; Paper

An all-over color tint on the press sheet in the nonimage area of the sheet, caused by ink pigment dissolving in the dampening solution.

surprint

Printing & publishing; Paper

An additional printing over the design areas of previously printed matter. Its equivalent in stripping uses overlay positive films on negatives, or photographic contact procedures to produce such ...

web tension

Printing & publishing; Paper

Amount of pull applied in direction of the travel of a web of paper by the action of a web-fed press.

supercalendering

Printing & publishing; Paper

Alternating rolls of highly polished steel and compressed cotton in a stack. During the process the paper is subjected to the heated steel rolls and "ironed" by the compressed cotton rolls. It ...