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General packaging
Product packaging design, printing and manufacturing.
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electronic printing
Packaging; General packaging
Any technology that reproduces pages without the use of traditional ink, water or chemistry.
doctor blade loading
Packaging; General packaging
Applying doctor blade pressure against the engraved cylinder. Gravure/flexography
metallising
Packaging; General packaging
Applying, through a vacuum process, a thin aluminium layer onto flexible plastic film substrates used to package a variety of foods.
contact area
Packaging; General packaging
Area of doctor blade in actual contact with print cylinder when wiping.
formation
Packaging; General packaging
Arrangement of the fibers in a sheet of paper. Irregular arrangement is "wild", uniform formation is "close".
stippling
Packaging; General packaging
Art work in which a series of miscellaneous and usually random dots are used instead of lines.
preseparated art
Packaging; General packaging
Artwork in which the basic layout, register marks and major color is prepared on illustration board and each additional color plate is drawn on a separate sheet or film overlay.
