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Any item made partly or entirely out of paper.

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deinking

Paper products; Printer paper

The removal of lignin from wood. The mechanical or chemical removal of printing inks and other foreign materials from paper, so that the cellulose fibers can be reused or ...

delignification

Paper products; Printer paper

A process in which most of the ink, filler, and other extraneous material is removed from printed and/or unprinted waste paper. The result is pulp which can be used, along with ...

folding (machine direction)

Paper products; Printer paper

Test made on paper by a folding endurance tester to measure the number of double folds that can be given to a strip of paper clamped between two jaws before it will break. This ...

fluting

Paper products; Printer paper

Also called heat-set corrugations or heatset waffling; a web distortion that runs parallel to the grain, caused by a combination of many factors including draw and tension ...

flying paster or flying splice .

Paper products; Printer paper

A mechanism which allows the lead end of a new roll of paper to be connected (pasted) to the end of a web of an expiring roll of paper on a paper coater, converter, or printing ...

foam spots

Paper products; Printer paper

Holes or weak spots in the finished paper caused by foam in the wet end of the paper machine, or surface defects such as spots occurring in a coated paper surface as a result of ...