When it comes to printing we all know that there are different types of paper stock to choose from. All of which are used in magazine printing , catalogue printing , newspaper supplements, inserts, brochure printing and direct mail etc.
Not all paper is created equal. Different papers are created from different types of pulp mechanical or chemical and some have different coatings.
Some will have different weights and a variety of finishes gloss, silk, matt or uncoated. In short, yes! This in turn affects the choice of paper for the type of printing and product you are producing and ultimately, cost. This process grinds up logs or woodchips rather than using chemicals to separate the wood fibres.
This leads to higher brightness and more vibrant colour printing. LWC papers are typically used for heat-set web offset and rotogravure printing of magazines, brochures and catalogues.
Consequently, this coating gives it a more consistent smooth surface, ideal for heat-set web offset printing. It has gloss, silk or matt finishing options and tends to be over 80gsm in weight.
MPC lends itself to higher quality products such as news-stand magazines or high end direct mail catalogues. Paper with a rating of 80 reflects more light and consequently appears brighter than a paper rated in the 70s. Wood free paper tends not to go yellow over time. Wood-free paper can be matt, silk or gloss finished and have up to 3 coatings.
Due to its fineness, this type of paper tend to be used for high quality covers for magazines, brochures or catalogues. Uncoated wood free fine papers have a wide range of uses, for example advertising materials, books, maps and office paper.
Weight ranges from 60gsm lightweight through to cardboard grade weights. For the right advice about the best paper to use for your next print project, please get in touch with us. You can email simon cliffe-enterprise.
Index papers have two outstanding characteristics - stiffness and receptivity to printing ink. It is available in both smooth and vellum finish. Tag is a utility sheet ranging from to pounds for manufacturing tags. Tag stock has good bending or folding qualities, suitable bursting and tensile strength, good tearing and water resistance and a surface adaptable to printing, stamping, or writing.
Bristol is one of the board grades, with a softer surface than index or tag, making it ideal for high-speed folding, embossing or stamping.
It is an economical substitute for cotton fiber stocks. It is very receptive to ink and has good snap and resilience. Newsprint is used in printing newspapers. It is most commonly made with groundwood pulp combined with some chemical pulp. Lightweight papers such as manifold, onionskin and Bible paper are specialty grades that have been produced for years.
Recently, increasing mailing costs have fostered the development and use of lighter weight newsprint and magazine papers. Writing paper usually refers to higher grade bond commonly used for letterhead paper. It will most often be made with a percent of cotton fiber and a watermark will be visible when it is held up to the light. Machine Finished Paper. Machine Finished is an uncoated mechanical printing paper, often referred to as Improved Newsprint.
Its main charactistic is its high bulk combined with a low weight. Most MF papers are 'tailormade' grades, which are characteristically light and have surfaces meeting particular requirements.
Machine-finished coated is a mechanical paper featuring very high bulk. This makes it ideal for printed products which require good rigidity.
Sometimes called Double Coated Mechanical, MWC is a medium-weight coated paper grade with a medium-thickness coat and a basis weight in the overgsm range. Its double coat gives this paper a consistent surface texture and excellent smoothness, ensuring high gloss colour printing. This good surface ensures low dot-gain in offset printing and explains why MWC is so popular for demanding full-colour applications.
MWC boasts the highest information capacity of all the mechanical-pulp-based grades. It is most suitable for perfect-bound speciality magazines and advertising articles in which quality demands are exceptionally high. Light-weight coated printing paper combines low-freeness mechanical pulp with ,long fibre cellulose fibres to achieve superior strength. Often called 'Blade Coated Mechanical'. Excellent printability is then added by coating both sides of the paper to give it a high degree of smoothness and gloss.
LWC is intended for printing applications in which high information capacity is needed. Its main uses are for catalogues and magazines with a high advertising content. The higher the basis weight, the higher the brightness level. LWC comes in different versions suiting heatset web offset printing.
A matt-surfaced version is very popular for offset printing of textbooks. These heavy-weight coated HWC papers are triple coated.
Their main use is for printing art books, high quality brochures and annual reports.
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