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This glossary of printing terms was created by people working in today's printing industry and is brought to you by MirPrint.com . It has been revised and edited and we have rewritten some technical descriptions in every day language to help the non technical person. Any suggestions that you may have on how we can improve this glossary will be carefully considered. Please send your comments and any new definitions to us at MirPrint.com.

 
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  • Wash Up
    This means to clean ink or other liquids from the rollers, fountains, screens or other components of a printing press. ...   Read More
 
 
  • Waste
    In typography, a quantity of type that is set but which is ultimately not used. In printing, waste is characterized by sheets of paper (or other substrate) used to set up the press before the print run proper begins. ...   Read More
 
 
  • Watermark
    A design stamped in wet paper pulp as it is forming in a papermaking machine. Watermarks are created by running the wet paper web under a dandy roll, which is a wire-covered cylinder. The design to be pressed into the paper is woven in wire and attached to the wire ...   Read More
 
 
  • Web Press
    A Web Press is a printing press that prints from large rolls of paper or other substrate, as opposed to a sheet-fed press, which prints from individual cut sheets. Gravure and flexographic presses are more commonly web presses. Presses used in offset lithography are either sheet-fed or web. ...   Read More
 
 
  • What kind of inks do you use?
    All of our jobs are printed with four-color inks (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black, or CMYK). We are proud to be one of the environmentally-friendly Green Printers in California and do not use VOC's. ...   Read More
 
 
 
 
  • What paper stock do you print on?
    For our Business Cards, Postcards, Rackcards, Press Kit, Bookmarks, Tent Cards and Collector Cards we print on 14-point glossy card stock with a UV coating (lamination) on the color side(s). All other products are printed on 100 lb glossy book stock with writable UV coating on both sides. ...   Read More
 
 
  • Woodfree Paper
    Woodfree Paper is paper made with chemical pulp instead of real wood pulp. This type of paper is usually classified as calendered or supercalendered. ...   Read More
 
 
  • Work and Turn
    Work-and-Turn is an imposition or layout in which a printing plate containing both the front and back of a sheet are mounted on the press at the same time and print on a double-size sheet of paper. Thus, half the sheet is the top printing, while the other half of ...   Read More
 
 
  • Wove
    A Wove is paper manufactured without visible wire marks, usually a fine textured type of paper. ...   Read More
 
 
  • Wrong Reading
    An image that is backwards when compared to the original. Also called flopped and reverse reading. ...   Read More
 
 
 
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