Paper production

Paper production

Paper manufacturing and production terms.

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dry-end

Printing & publishing; Paper

On the paper machine, it is the section where the dryers, cutters, slitters and reels are located.

On the wet end of the paper machine the straps or deckle rulers that prevent the fiber from overflowing the sides of the machine. The deckle determines how wide the paper on a particular machine will ...

wet-strength papers

Printing & publishing; Paper

Once wet, ordinary papers lose most of their original dry-strength properties. Wet strength papers possess properties that resist disintegration and rupture when saturated with water. Papers are ...

wire side

Printing & publishing; Paper

Opposite of felt side, this is the side of the paper that was against the wire during manufacture. A watermark will read backward from this side of the sheet.

grain short

Printing & publishing; Paper

Opposite of grain long. Grain of the paper runs at the right angles to the longest dimension of the sheet. Fiber alignment in grain short paper parallels the sheet’s shortest dimension.

dryer

Printing & publishing; Paper

Oven on web offset press through which the web of printed paper passes after it leaves the final printing unit. The drying process, standard when heat-set inks are used, heats the web to about 350 ...