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PAPER

In Poland, according to the standards, paper products are: paper (grammature to 250 g/m2) and cardboard (from 250 g/m2). According to international regulations, the border is 225 g/m2.

There is also a customary division:

  1. tissue-papers (to 28 g/m2),
  2. papers (from 29 to 160 g/m2),
  3. thin cardboards (from 161 to 315 g/m2),
  4. cardboards (from 315 g/m2),
  5. bibulous papers (from 65 to 250 g/m2).

The clasification of papers using for printing:

  • luxury printing papers
  • papers for printing multicolor magazines
  • news-papers
  • special papers
  • multicoat cardboards for printing, also high processed

Characteristic of paper depends on its properties, for example:

some of size and structure
properties :

- grammature
- thickness
- volumen
- size
- size stability
- smoothness
- cihesion of the basis
- doublesizing
- anizotrophy

some of durability properties:

- extensibility
- tearing durability
- partly tearing durability
- bending durability
- breaking durability
- hardness
- softness
- stratifying resistance

some of optical properties:

- whiteness
- tint
- polish

some of properties hydrophoboic and hydophilic:

- absolute moisture of the paper
- relative moisture of the paper
- proneness to waving
- water resistance

some of special properties :

- time resistance
- proneness to powdering
- proneness to electrifying
- lye resistance
- printability

(Stefan Jakucewicz: "Papier w poligrafii", Inicjał Warszawa 1999)

 

TABLES

Paper formats

A

B

C

format
symbol

sheet size
(mm)

format
symbol

sheet size
(mm)

format
symbol

sheet size
(mm)

4A0

1682x2378

 

 

 

 

2A0

1189x1682

 

 

 

 

A0

841x1189

B0

1000x1414

C0

917x1297

A1

594x841

B1

707x1000

C1

648x917

A2

420x594

B2

500x707

C2

458x648

A3

297x420

B3

353x500

C3

324x458

A4

210x297

B4

250x353

C4

229x324

A5

148x210

B5

176x250

C5

162x229

A6

105x148

B6

125x176

C6

114x162

A7

74x105

B7

88x125

C7

81x114

A8

52x74

B8

62x88

C8

57x81

A9

37x52

B9

44x62

C9

40x57

A10

26x37

B10

31x44

C10

28x40

 

 see also:

  letters' construction details

  partition of format B

  partition of format A1

  paper grammature

  screen dot

  screen dot change

 

our propositions:

screen printing (polish)

screen printing dictionary (polish)

paper

tables

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