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HARD-SIZED [PAPER] Relative term used to indicate the maximum size of paper.
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IMITATION ART Paper which is heavily loaded with china clay and also highly finished. It is used for catalogues and is also suitable for halftone screen up to 48 lines per centimetre.
INDEX BRISTOL Paper used for cards, tab cards and other similar applications requiring heavier weight of paper.
INDIA PAPER Opaque rag paper used for books where extreme lightness or thinness is required. This paper was originally imported from China.
INTERNATIONAL PAPER SIZES Standard range of metric paper sizes as defined by the International Standards Organisation [ISO] and British Standards Institution [BSI].
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LEDGER PAPER Paper used primarily for business ledgers, accounting etc. It is strong, smooth-finished, low gloss, with facility to allow easy erasure.
LINE HOLES Seies of dots running parallel to the edge of the paper web. Used to control paper in manufacturing machine, forms writing machine, burster or other end user equipment.
LINEN FINISH End result of compressing paper between linen-patterned felts, or by embossing a continuous web of paper with a steel roll which has been engraved to so that it looks like the surface of linen cloth.
LISTING PAPER Stock item in single or multi-part forms. Available in many sizes and can be preprinted or plain.
LOADING Clay or other mineral which is included in the furnish of a paper to produce a more solid amd smoother sheet.
LOOK-THROUGH Appearance of paper when it is held up to a bright light.
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MACHINE DIRECTION Direction of lie of cellulose fibres dur to motion of papermaking machine - long way or web of paper. Also direction in which product is printed in reel-fed machine i.e. head or foot of label first, or wide edge or narrow edge leading along web.
MACHINE FINISH Paper which is smooth calendered and uncoated. Not as glossy as supercalendered paper. [see calendered, supercalendered]
MACHINE GLAZED Highly polished finish to one side of paper and a rough finish on the other.
MANIFOLD Paper which is thin, strong, and has a smooth surface and is used for duplicating or copying of substance un 45g/m2.
MATT ART Art paper with dull eggshell finish.
MATT FINISH Paper finish with level, smooth-coated surface and little or no gloss.
MECHANICAL PAPER Paper containing a proportion of mechanical wood pulp.
MECHANICAL WOOD PULP Pulp produced by grinding wood mechanically. Used for cheap papers i.e. newsprint, combined with larger proportions of chemical wood pulp for more superior qualities of paper.
MEMORY Tendency of a substance to return to its original state. e.g. whether or not a piece of folded paper can return to its flat state without evidence of it having ever been folded.
MILL ROLL Paper roll as delivered from paper mill.
MILL-FINISHED [PAPER] Machine-finished or mill-finished. Paper that is not supercalendered.
MILL-GLAZED [PAPER] Mill-glazed or machine-glazed paper. Applied to a large range of papers which are characteristically rough on one side and highly glazed on the other.
MILLBOARD Board of high grade, made from rope and other materials and btown in colour. It is very hard, very touch and has a good finish. Used for the covers of better quality bound books.
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