Paper production

Paper production

Paper manufacturing and production terms.

Industry: Manufacturing

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guide roller

Printing & publishing; Paper

Sometimes called a cocking roller. Located on the roll stand between the roll of paper and the dancer roll. Can be cocked to compensate for certain paper roll conditions.

opacity

Printing & publishing; Paper

Sometimes referred to as "show-through" this term refers to the property of a sheet which prevents dark print areas from showing through the paper to the other side.

spectrophotometer

Printing & publishing; Paper

Sophisticated instrument that measures color across a visible spectrum and produces data describing the color of a given sample in terms of the three parameters in color space.