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anilox roll,  | Engraved ink metering roll used in flexography. |
Plate caliper,  | Overall thickness of a printing plate. |
CMYK,  | Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black ink. |
Central Impression Press,  | Most common in the flexiable packaging industry.,  |
Inline Label Press,  | Most common products include tags & labels.,  |
| densitometer | A photoelectric instrument that measures the optical density of images or colors. |
| distortion | The amount art is reduced to compensate for cylinder wrap. |
| dpi | Dots per inch. |
| gamut | The total range of colors that can be displayed. |
| ghosting | Presence of a faint image of a design in areas that are not intended to receive that portion of the image. |
| kiss impression | The minimum pressure in which proper ink transfer is possible. |
| pinholing | Failure of a printed ink to form a completely continuous film. |
| registration | The proper alignment or positioning of two or more images with each other. |
| spectrophotometer | A device to measure three-dimensional color space. |
| substrate | Material that is being printed. |
| vehicle | The liquid components of a printing ink. |
| vignette | A halftone image in which the background gradually fades away until it blends into the unprinted substrate or a solid print. |
| amines | A nitrogen-containing component of water-based inks and coatings that, when mixed with acrylic resins, allows them to go into and remain in solution. |
Bare cylinder diameter,  | The diameter of the actual plate cylinder before the stickyback and plates are mounted. |
| Co-extrusions | Film that is produced by more than one extruder throughout a common die. |
