Derek Tech Print
Across
- 8. The number of threads (or strands) per linear inch in a fabric.
- 10. size The distance across individual open areas between adjacent threads.
- 11. A rubber or plastic blade used to force ink through the open areas of a screen-printing stencil.
- 12. A printing system component that holds the plate on the press.
- 15. A group of rollers designed to apply moisture to the nonimage area of the printing plate.
- 16. Plastic relief plates commonly used in flexographic printing. The surface contains a light-sensitive polymer coating that hardens after exposure.
- 18. edge The result of poor cutting or adhering techniques of stencils, which can cause imperfect images.
- 19. Percentage of area per square inch in a fabric through which ink can pass.
- 21. A resilient material that is attached to a cylinder
- 22. A method of printing from cells or depressions that are engraved below the nonimage area of the printing cylinder.
- 25. A group of cylinders used to transfer images from the printing plate to the substrate. In a lithographic press, the printing system consists of a plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder, and an impression cylinder.
- 26. A relief press that prints by pressing a type form or plate against a platen, the surface that holds the paper to be printed.
Down
- 1. A duplicate relief plate that is produced from a mold through an electrochemical process.
- 2. A splicer unit that bonds a new web to the existing web without stopping any operations on a web-fed press.
- 3. A group of rollers designed to carry ink to the image area of the printing plate.
- 4. A printing method in which inked images are offset or transferred from one surface to another.
- 5. A press system that removes the printed substrate from the printing system and prepares it for finishing operations.
- 6. A lithographic press that prints paper one sheet at a time as it is fed through the system.
- 7. Flexible relief plates commonly used in flexographic printing.
- 9. A feeding system mechanism that places paper in register for printing on a press.
- 13. A control device that prevents more than one sheet of paper from entering the press.
- 14. mechanism A tension control device designed to produce a slight amount of drag on the web as it travels through a web fed press
- 17. A printing process that uses a squeegee to force ink through a porous fabric covered by a stencil that blocks the nonimage areas. The ink pressed through the open image areas produces the image on a substrate.
- 20. correction Adjusting images to optimize values for highlight and shadow, neutral tones, skin tones, and sharpness, to compensate for impurities in the printing ink and color separation.
- 21. system Definition (4 of 49)A continuous dampening system that uses a brush roller to transfer fountain solution from the fountain roller to the rest of the system.
- 23. Solvents added to ink to thin the viscosity and slow the drying time.
- 24. A single thread.
- 25. A measuring scale used to determine the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. The pH scale is numbered from 0–14, with 7 designated as neutral. A pH value below 7 indicates an acidic solution; a value above 7 indicates an alkaline solution.