SWERVVV

1. A printing system component that holds the plate on the press.
3. A group of rollers designed to carry ink to the image area of the printing plate.
5. The vertical distance between the surface of the cylinder bearers and the cylinder body. This allows for the thickness of the plate or blanket and packing.
8. Printing system that prints both sides of the substrate at once.
10. 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.
11. A curved or triangular plane that serves as the folding surface on a web-fed press.
12. A duplicate relief plate that is produced from a mold through an electrochemical process.
14. A method of printing from cells or depressions that are engraved below the nonimage area of the printing cylinder.
15. The distance across individual open areas between adjacent threads.
16. A single thread.
17. A relief printing process that uses flexible printing plates for printing long run jobs.
19. A uniform stack of paper that accepts sheets from the delivery system of a sheet-fed press.

2. Solvents added to ink to change the viscosity of the ink. They do not affect drying time.
4. 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.
6. 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.
7. The number of threads (or strands) per linear inch in a fabric.
8. A relief press that prints by pressing a type form or plate against a platen, the surface that holds the paper to be printed.
9. A resilient material that is attached to a cylinder and used as an image transfer material from the plate cylinder to the substrate.
11. A splicer unit that bonds a new web to the existing web without stopping any operations on a web-fed press.
13. A measurement that indicates the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, as measured on the pH scale.
18. An instrument that measures screen fabric tension.