Tissue paper used for wrapping delicate fabrics must be acid free to ensure the tissue paper does no...

Type of plastic, used sometimes as a rope on some of the luxury carrier bags....

In printing, anilox is a method used to provide a measured amount of ink to a flexo printing plate. ...

A paper evenly coated with a fine clay compound, which creates a hard smooth surface on one or both ...

The complete material including type, pictures, diagrams and photos from which film is made for prod...

Common paper bag or counterbag material. Bleached using non chemical methods. Kraft derived from the...

Used for Flexographic printing. Usually one block is required per colour each side of the bag being ...

Unbleached Kraft paper, available in plain or with a ribbed effect...

Buff is a pale yellow-brown color that got its name from the color of buffalo leather...

The common impression (CIS) is a very common type of press used by the Flexo industry. This press is...

The process of extruding two or more materials through a single die with two or more orifices arrang...

Can be clay or other material coated on to paper to make it smoother and less absorbent to ink. Prod...

By increasing a material's surface tension, corona treating makes inks, films, adhesives, and other ...

Used as a rope handle in some of the luxury carrier bags....

Printing blocks are placed on a cylinder and each turn of the cylinder prints one image. The circumf...

The material from which many plate manufacturers use to make printing plates....

Those who create designs. The world would be poorer without designers. As printers we know that we h...

The process of compensating for the stretch of a block when placed around a cylinder....

Dots per Inch. Tones and process print are produced by printing millions of tiny dots of each select...

A style of carrierbag. A rope attached to base for carrying also closes top....

Creating a raised area, eg over text to enhance it. Embossing does not have to follow a print area: ...

A machine which produces Polyethylene film. Granules are melted and drawn out in a tube bubble to co...

Film output as positives will show the image to be printed as opaque black. Non-printing areas will ...

See "Flexographic Printing"...

A printing method used for printing polythene and paper. A machine printing process that utilizes ro...

One thousand of an inch. A British Imperial Unit of measurement to measure the thickness of polythen...

See Greaseproof....

The Grain direction is the direction that most of the paper fibers lay longitudinally in a sheet of ...

A method of transferring images to paper from an intaglio (recessed) surface, as from an etching or ...

A grease & fat resistant paper. Also Glassine (Least resistant), Vegetable Parchment(more resistant ...

Or Grammage. The weight per unit of paper, measured in grams per square metre. It is worth rememberi...

The fold in the side or bottom of the bag, allowing it to expand when contents are inserted. Usually...

High Density Polyethylene. The high density refers to the density of molecule chain in the polyethyl...

A paper or board containing unbleached wood pulp (brown in color) made by the sulfate process....

A thin transparent plastic coating applied to paper or board to provide protection and give it, for ...

Low Density Polyethylene. The low density refers to the density of molecule chain in the polyethylen...

See "Lithographic Printing"...

A printing method that uses the repellent properties of oil and water to reproduce an image on a fla...

See "DPI"...

A process of mechanically polishing paper between cylinders....

Usually on Kraft of 60 GSM up. Rougher than MF....

The metric measurement for thickness of plastic, often in place of gauge, the old imperial measureme...

Ribbed style paper, used in flat counter style paper bags, not as popular now as once before....

As when printing pictures, printing plates also use an Aceteate film as a negative to create the pri...

See Lithographic Printing...

A type of Greaseproof paper...

A transparent patch is either welded or glued to the inside of a punched handle carrier to reinforce...

An economy grade tissue due to its colour and fiberous construction. Very useful as a filler, it has...

A system where a color image is separated into different color values (cyan, magenta, yellow and bla...

A document which shows the text, colours, colour split and positioning of a print order. It is the c...

An initially strange convention in packaging allows manufactures to deliver up to plus/minus 10% on ...

The position of a colour, relative to where it should be, or relative to other colours. When printin...

Brown kraft paper with a 'ribbed' effect (basically a watermark), origianlly formed when extracting ...

Used on our Luxury Carrier Bags, they come in 3 forms: Cotton, Acrylic and Polypropylene....

An old term for flexographic printing plates...

A type of Greaseproof paper...

Self Opening Satchel, typically describes paper bags with a side and bottom gusset such as our flat ...

Another name for flexographic printing plates...

Technical term for the material a bag is made from...

Acid process of cooking pulp. Wood chips are cooked in a solution of bisulphite. Produces a grey fin...

A flat paper handle folded twice and either glued externally or internally. Internal flat handle car...

See Turn Over Top...

A method of reinforcing the punched handle in plastic carriers. Extra material is left at the top, t...

2 Images are printed 1 after the other, as opposed to side by side as described in Two Up...

When printing smaller bags, it is often more efficient to print 2 bags side by side as the cylinder ...

Offers that gloss printing over matt finish you often see on high end luxury carrier bags. Cures ove...

A method of strengthening the punched handle by producing film that is thicker at the top than the b...

Descibes your standard supermarket carrier bag. Gernally made from thin HD plastic (around 18MU). Ou...

We can work out the weight of 1000 plastic bags with a simple equation: Width x (Height + half gusse...

See Bleached White Kraft...