Across
- 2. The amount and type of ingredients used in a particular printing ink
- 4. Substance that breaks apart and distributes inks
- 6. Problem that occurs when ink pigment particles bleed into the dampening solution, causing a slight tint of ink to appear on the nonimage area of the printed sheet.
- 7. The tendency of ink to flow more freely after being worked
- 9. Chemical substance that gives color to such materials as ink, paint, crayons, and chalk.
- 11. Instrument used to accurately determine different tone values, such as the highlights and shadows of an original
- 16. Driers, lubricants, waxes, and starches that are added to ink to impart special characteristics
- 17. When that color of the printing job does not match the intended color
- 18. A visual representation of color data, used for process ink analysis.
- 19. A press problem that occurs when two layers of ink film, on two different sheets, bond together
- 23. Instrument capable of measuring light of different colors or wavelengths by using a prism or diffraction grating to spread light and isolate narrow wavelengths of light between 1 nm and 10 nm
- 25. An ink-penetration problem that occurs when the ink soaks into the paper too deeply and shows through the opposite side of the sheet
- 26. In gravure printing, the process of inking the cells of the plate or cylinder
- 29. A condition in lithography when the nonimage areas of the plate begin to accept ink
- 32. The elasticity of ink; referred to as long or short
- 33. A chemical change in the body of an ink that occurs during storage
- 35. The wearing away of the surface of a plate by coarse particles in the ink
Down
- 1. A methid if checking for proper ink mixing by placing a small amount of ink on paper, and then using a blade to spread it and produce a thin ink film
- 3. The stickiness of the ink. A measurement of cohesion between the ink film and the substrate.
- 5. A condition that results when wet ink on the press sheets transfers to the back of other sheets in a stack
- 8. An instrument that measures the tack of a printing ink
- 9. Condition that occurs when dried ink is easily rubbed off
- 10. Term that describes the consistency of an ink
- 12. A device that measures the thickness of the ink film on the press rollers
- 13. The internal resistance of an ink to flow; the opposite of fluidity.
- 14. The amount of pigment in an ink that determines how well the ink will cover the substrate.
- 15. Colorants in the form of fine, solid particles that do not dissolve but spread through liquids or other substnces
- 20. A device that measures that pigment particle size in an ink
- 21. Term describing the dispersing of a pigment in an undried state into a vehicle for ink
- 22. The point at which the ink is free of volatile substances and has polymerized to a total solid state
- 24. The point at which an ink is dry enough to be lightly touched without smudging
- 27. Tiny dots that appear near an image area, caused by paper fibers or other foreign material in the ink
- 28. Substance that holds pigment together and adheres ink to the substrate.
- 30. The liquid component in ink that serves as a binding agent
- 31. A colored coating formulated to reproduce an image on a substrate
- 34. A small handheld roller used to distribute ink on a proof press