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Paper production
Paper manufacturing and production terms.
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Paper production
back cylinder pressure
Printing & publishing; Paper
Additional pressure applied through the impression cylinder assisting the image transfer to the press sheet.
archival paper
Printing & publishing; Paper
Acid-free, resists disintegration. Used for documents that must last.
localized watermark
Printing & publishing; Paper
Achieved by arranging the design on the dandy roll to leave a watermark at a predetermined place on the sheet.
sulphite
Printing & publishing; Paper
Acid process of cooking pulp. Wood chips are cooked in a solution of bisulphite.
weight tolerance
Printing & publishing; Paper
Acceptable degree of variation in a paper's shipped weight, usually within 5 percent of the paper's nominal weight.
feet-per-minute (FPM)
Printing & publishing; Paper
Refers usually to the speed of a papermaking machine in terms of how many feet per minute the forming web of paper traverses the length of the machine.
