- Wash Up
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To clean ink and fountain
solutions from rollers, fountains, screens, and other press components.
- Waste
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Unusable paper or paper damage during normal
make-ready, printing or binding operations, as compared to spoilage.
- Watermark
-
Translucent logo in paper created during
manufacturing by slight embossing from a dandy roll while paper is still
approximately 90 percent water.
- Web Break
-
Split of
the paper as it travels through a web press, causing operators to rethread the
press.
- Web Gain
-
Unacceptable stretching of paper as
it passes through the press.
- Web Press
-
Press that
prints from rolls of paper, usually cutting it into sheets after printing. Web
presses come in many sizes, the most common being mini, half, three quarter
(also called 8-pages) and full (also called 16-pages). Also called reel-fed
press.
- Welsh
-
Generic term used to describe
publications produced overnight for The Welsh Assembly Government. These jobs
are produced from PDF files received from TSO in Cardiff via ISDN and are
usually produced digitally via the OCE web line.
- Westminster
-
Generic term used to refer to the Houses of Parliament, the clients
therein and the contract with them.
- Westminster Hall
-
1. The third chamber of debate within Parliament drawn from Members of
Parliament.
-
2. Generic term used to refer to the Business
Paper for the Westminster Hall debate.
-
3. Generic term used
to refer to the part of the Commons Hansard consisting of the transcript of the
debate within Westminster Hall.
- Wet Proof
-
Proof
made on press using the plates, ink and paper specified for the job. Also
called strike off and trial proof.
- Wet
Trap
-
To print ink or varnish over wet ink, as compared to dry
trap.
- White-out-Black
-
The process of having white
text on a black background. Also called reverse out.
- White Note
-
The form containing the distribution and delivery
details for a printed job received from the buying team.
- White
Paper
-
Generic term used to refer to the department managing all
inward and outward movement of paper for the printing process.
- Widow
-
Short last line of a paragraph that appears as the first
line on a page. *Also called a stump. *
- Window
-
1. In
a printed product, a die-cut hole revealing an image on the sheet behind
it.
-
2. On a mechanical, an area that has been marked for
placement of a piece of artwork.
- WIPERS
-
Microsoft
Access-based Work-In-Progress report drawn from the data stored in the job
control system PECAS.
- Wire Side
-
Side of the paper
that rests against The Fourdrinier wire during papermaking, as compared to felt
side.
- Wiro-Binding
-
Similar to comb binding but using
metal wire instead of plastic.
See also
Comb
Bind.
- With the Grain
-
Parallel to the grain
direction of the paper being used, as compared to against the grain.
See
also
Grain
Direction.
- Woodfree Paper
-
Made with chemical
pulp only. Paper usually classified as calendered or supercalendered.
- Work-in-Progress (WIP)
-
Term used to refer to all work once it
has entered the production process until it is complete, delivered, invoiced
and paid for. The aim of any business will be to keep down the monetary value
of WIP.
- Works Instruction Ticket
-
The paperwork
specific to each individual job detailing all aspects of production and
delivery.
- Wove
-
Paper manufactured without visible
wire marks, usually a fine textured paper.
- Wrong Reading
-
An image that is backwards when compared to the original. Also
called flopped and reverse reading.