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- 4. 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.
- 6. A splicer unit that bonds a new web to the existing web without stopping any operations on a web-fed press.
- 7. 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.
- 9. A printing method in which inked images are offset or transferred from one surface to another.
- 10. A resilient material that is attached to a cylinder and used as an image transfer material from the plate cylinder to the substrate.
- 12. A printing system component that brings the paper to be printed into contact with the blanket cylinder.
- 13. A duplicate relief plate that is produced from a mold through an electrochemical process.
- 15. The number of threads (or strands) per linear inch in a fabric.
- 17. Imaging systems that expose fully-paginated digital materials to plates in platesetters or imagesetters without creating film intermediates.
- 19. The distance across individual open areas between adjacent threads.
- 21. A measurement that indicates the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, as measured on the pH scale.
- 25. A relief printing process that uses flexible printing plates for printing long run jobs.
- 26. A group of rollers designed to carry ink to the image area of the printing plate.
- 28. A process in which a power source feeds electrical charges between the impression roller and the printing cylinder, creating a force that helps release ink from the etched cells.
- 29. A control device that prevents more than one sheet of paper from entering the press.
- 30. A group of rollers designed to apply moisture to the nonimage area of the printing plate.
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- 1. Percentage of area per square inch in a fabric through which ink can pass.
- 2. A continuous dampening system that uses a brush roller to transfer fountain solution from the fountain roller to the rest of the system.
- 3. Printing system that prints both sides of the substrate at once.
- 5. A relief press that prints by pressing a type form or plate against a platen, the surface that holds the paper to be printed.
- 8. 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.
- 11. A curved or triangular plane that serves as the folding surface on a web-fed press.
- 14. A uniform stack of paper that accepts sheets from the delivery system of a sheet-fed press.
- 16. Plastic relief plates commonly used in flexographic printing. The surface contains a light-sensitive polymer coating that hardens after exposure.
- 18. A printing system component that holds the plate on the press.
- 20. A rubber or plastic blade used to force ink through the open areas of a screen-printing stencil.
- 22. A single thread
- 23. A device used to bond a new roll to the end of an existing web on a web-fed press.
- 24. Solvents added to ink to change the viscosity of the ink. They do not affect drying time.
- 27. A method of printing from cells or depressions that are engraved below the nonimage area of the printing cylinder.