Across
- 2. The result of tensioning fabric in one direction without stretching it equally in the other direction.
- 5. Plastic relief plates commonly used in flexographic printing. The surface contains a light-sensitive polymer coating that hardens after exposure.
- 7. A method of printing from cells or depressions that are engraved below the nonimage area of the printing cylinder.
- 8. A curved or triangular plane that serves as the folding surface on a web-fed press.
- 9. A continuous dampening system that uses a brush roller to transfer fountain solution from the fountain roller to the rest of the system.
- 11. A printing method in which inked images are offset or transferred from one surface to another.
- 12. The distance across individual open areas between adjacent threads.
- 17. A group of rollers designed to apply moisture to the nonimage area of the printing plate.
- 18. A group of rollers designed to carry ink to the image area of the printing plate.
- 20. A tension control device designed to produce a slight amount of drag on the web as it travels through a web-fed press.
- 21. 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.
- 22. 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.
- 23. The number of threads (or strands) per linear inch in a fabric.
- 26. A printing system component that holds the plate on the press.
- 27. A control device that prevents more than one sheet of paper from entering the press.
Down
- 1. A splicer unit that bonds a new web to the existing web without stopping any operations on a web-fed press.
- 3. A uniform stack of paper that accepts sheets from the delivery system of a sheet-fed press.
- 4. 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.
- 6. A printing system component that holds the image-receptive blanket on the press and receives the image from the plate cylinder.
- 10. Imaging systems that expose fully-paginated digital materials to plates in platesetters or imagesetters without creating film intermediates.
- 13. A relief printing process that uses flexible printing plates for printing long run jobs.
- 14. A resilient material that is attached to a cylinder and used as an image transfer material from the plate cylinder to the substrate.
- 15. A printing system component that brings the paper to be printed into contact with the blanket cylinder.
- 16. Percentage of area per square inch in a fabric through which ink can pass.
- 19. Printing system that prints both sides of the substrate at once.
- 20. The result of poor cutting or adhering techniques of stencils, which can cause imperfect images.
- 24. A single thread.
- 25. A duplicate relief plate that is produced from a mold through an electrochemical process.
- 26. A measurement that indicates the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, as measured on the pH scale.