Book Printing Terms
Compare paper, board, cover material, and other production material terms.
Paper grain is the way how fibers line up naturally in a sheet of paper, it just like wood has a grain, so does paper. T...
Coated paper is a kind of paper with a smooth surface that makes colors and images look brighter and clearer. It’s cover...
Matte art paper is coated but has a dull, non-reflective finish, it has a smooth touch and is a great paper choice to pr...
Dowling paper is an uncoated paper that is often used for novels, notebooks, and office printing. It has a soft, slightl...
Offset paper is an uncoated paper commonly used for writing, textbooks, notebooks, and letterheads, which is great in ab...
Folding in book printing is the process of bending large printed sheets into smaller sections called signatures. These f...
Calendering is a finishing process, the paper will pass through a series of heated rollers to make the surface smoother...
