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Print Industry Scope
Conventional Printing Processes
Non-Conventional Printing Processes
Paper Manufacturing
Odds and Ends
100
This many Canadians are employed in the printing industry.
What is 53,000?
100
Offset lithography is this type of printing process.
What is planography?
100
Another word for non-conventional printing processes.
What is electronic OR non-impact printing (NIP) OR plateless printing OR digital printing?
100
This polymer makes up 55-63% of wood.
What is cellulose fibre?
100
A machine hazard in which small or large parts may unexpectedly move together.
What is pinch-point?
200
Behind Ontario, this province employs the second most number of people.
What is Quebec?
200
Offset plates / image carriers read this way.
What is right-reading?
200
This drum has a negative charge in the image areas only.
What is a photoconductor drum?
200
Hardwoods are to short as softwoods are to long.
What is fibre length? Softwoods: • Spruce, pine, redwood • Fibres 3 - 4 mm long • Provides strength in paper Hardwoods: • Maple, birch, beech, chestnut • Fibres 1 - 1.5 mm long • Contributes to softness, bulk, opacity in paper
200
The performance of a paper on press.
What is runnability?
300
There are more employees on this side of the printing industry. [Production side OR management side]
What is production? (although, admin is growing...)
300
Flexographic plates / image carriers read this way.
What is wrong-reading?
300
In xerography, these particles are transferred to paper to form an image.
What are toner particles?
300
A chemical pulping process no longer used.
What is Acid Chemical Pulping (Sulfite Pulping Method)? Used widely until 1950-1960s; difficulties disposing of black sulfite liquor.
300
List (at least) 10 different types of printed products.
Answers vary... Packaging Posters Signage Books Magazines Stamps Vehicle wraps Billboards Money Canvas / artwork prints Electronics / circuit boards Braille 3D printing Apparel
400
A company with fewer than 5 employees.
What is micro-enterprise?
400
The 4 types of printing processes.
What are relief (letterpress, flexo), planographic (lithography), intaglio (gravure), and porous (screen)?
400
The two types of inkjet printing.
What are Continuous and Drop on Demand (DOD)?
400
Caused when paper has not been conditioned for long enough in a pressroom warmer than the paper storage room.
What are wavy edges?
500
3 responsibilities of a manager in the print industry.
What are (3 of following): - Productivity - Planning - Marketing/sales/service - HR - Compliance - Profitability - Stakeholders/shareholders
500
The concept of lithography.
What are hydrophobic & oleophilic image areas and hydrophilic & oleophobic non-image areas? a.k.a. Non-image areas repel ink while image areas accept ink.
500
3 advantages of non-imact / digital printing.
What are (any three): - Variable data - Four-colour process in one pass (small footprint) - Low cost for small quantities (< 1000) - Economical makeready - Cleaner operation
500
The mixture of fibrous and non fibrous additives that is used to make paper.
What is the furnish?
500
The name of the instrument used to measure temperature and relative humidity of paper stacks.
What is a sword hygrometer?