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General packaging

Product packaging design, printing and manufacturing.

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overs

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In printing, copies printed in excess of the specified quantity. (Printing trade terms allow for +/- 10% to represent a completed order.)

common impression cylinder press

Packaging; General packaging

In flexography, letterpress, and lithography, a press with a number of printing units around a large impression cylinder.

premakeready

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In flexography, process by which surface of printing plates is varied in height for better printability before going on press.

screen-printing

Packaging; General packaging

In flexography, refers to any tone printing work, whether half-tone or Ben Day.

reverse angle doctor blade

Packaging; General packaging

In flexography, similar to doctor blade in gravure except used with much lighter pressure and a reverse angle on the anilox roll.

anilox inking

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In flexography, two roll inking system with smooth fountain roll that transfers inks to an etched metal or ceramic coated metal roll with cells of fixed size and depth that transfer the ink to the ...

angle of wipe

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In gravure and flexographic printing, the angle the doctor blade is set from the centerline of cylinder, before loading.

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