24# and 28# Uncoated

This is a standard stock usually used for envelopes, also known as White Wove. The 28# is thicker and heavier than the 24# as well.

 

Watermark – Printing Terms Glossary

A translucent mark or image, which is embossed during the papermaking process, or printed onto paper that is visible when the paper is held up to the light.

 

Thermography – Printing Terms Glossary

A printing procedure whereby slow drying ink is used to paper and, while the ink is still wet, is softly dusted with a resinous powder. Then the paper passes through a heat chamber where the powder melts as well as fuses with the ink to produce a raised surface.

 

Process printing – Printing Terms Glossary

The system where a color image is classified into different color values (magenta, cyan, black and yellow or CMYK) by the use of filters and screens or digitally with a software program and then transferred to printing plates as well as printed on a printing press, reproducing the original color image.

 

Make-ready – Printing Terms Glossary

Paper that is used in the press set-up process before the printing run actually begins. Or the process of establishing press or bindery equipment to produce a specific product, including setting paper size, image alignment, fold sizes, ink density, etc., In preparation for the actual production run.

 

Flexography – Printing Terms Glossary

A printing method that uses flexible plates where the image to be published is higher than the non-printing areas. The inked fields are then contacted the material to be printed and transferring the ink from the raised areas to the material. Fast drying inks are normally used in this process. Common purposes are the printing of cans and bottles as well as other non-flat items.