Xerox DOCUCOLOR 12 Materials Usage Manual page 54

GLOSSARY
L
Laser bond:
Bond paper made especially smooth and dry to run
well through laser printer.
Leaf:
One page in a book.
Lead edge:
The edge of the paper that feeds first into the
copier.
Ledger paper:
A durable, smooth business paper with a heavy
basis weight used for keeping business records.
Letter paper:
In North America, 8.5 x 11" sheets. In Europe, A4
sheets.
Lightfastness:
The amount of resistance of a color of ink or paper
to any kind of light. Also known as colorfastness.
Lightweight paper:
Book paper with a basis weight of less than 40 lb
(60 gsm).
M
M value:
The weight of some materials is described by the
M value printed on the package (i.e., 21.64M). The
M value is the weight in pounds of 1,000 sheets of
the size of the paper in the package. To convert the
M value to gsm for 8.5 x 11" paper, multiply the M
value by 7.527. To convert the M value to gsm for
11 x 17" paper, multiply the M value by 3.763.
Matte finish:
A flat, dull, low gloss finish on photographic paper
or coated printing paper.
Mottle:
Spotty or uneven image areas of printing.
Contact your local authorized Xerox distributor, or call Xerox at 1-800-822-2200 in the USA,
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N
Natural color:
Neutral gray:
Newsprint:
Non-impact printing:
O
Opacity:
Opaque:
P
Page:
Page-per-inch:
Pixel:
Point (pt.):
or 1-800-668-0199 in Canada for our full line of media.
Very light brown color of paper. May also be called
antique, cream, ivory, off-white, or mellow white.
Gray with no hue or cast.
Paper used for printing newspapers, made from
groundwood or mechanical pulp.
Printing using lasers, ions, ink jets or heat to
transfer images to paper. Abbreviated NIP.
Characteristic of paper or other substrate that
prevents printing on side from showing through to
the other.
The more opaque a sheet of paper is, the less
transparent it is. High opacity in printing papers is a
good characteristic as print from the other side of a
printed sheet has less show-through.
One side of a leaf in a publication.
Also known as PPI, it is the number of pages in a
one inch stack of papers.
Short for picture element, a dot made by a
computer, scanner, or other digital device.
The measure of paper thickness. One point is one-
thousandth of an inch.
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