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- Warm colour
- In printing, a colour with a yellowish or reddish cast.
- Washup
- The process of cleaning the rollers, form or plate, and sometimes the ink fountain of a printing press.
- Waste Paper
- Paper which has ended its immediate useful life, created before or after reaching the final consumer of the paper, or paper product.
- Water Pollution
- Introduction of foreign substances to a water source, either toxic to life forms or creating an oxygen demand, depriving indigenous life forms of oxygen and resulting in their death.
- Waterless plate
- Printing plate that is printed on an offset press without dampening solution.
- Waterless printing
- In offset, printing on a press using special waterless plates and no dampening system.
- Watermark
- A deliberate design or pattern in paper made by a dandy roll as the stock passes through the wet end processes; a watermark can be seen by holding the paper up to the light.
- Wayzgoose
- At one time the name for entertainment provided by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew's Day (24 August). This marked the traditional end of summer and the point at which the season of working by candlelight began. Later, the word came to refer to the annual outing and dinner of the staff of a printing works or the printers on a newspaper.
- Web
- A roll of paper used in web or rotary printing.
- Web press
- A press, which prints, on roll or web fed paper.
- Well Managed Forest
- Forests that are certified and audited to ensure they comply with environmentally sustainable practice and principles. Tropical hardwood and softwood trees are now grown in well managed forests.
- Whiteness
- A description of both the total ammount and purity of white light reflected from a surface. Often expressed as CIE Lab, where figures are given for total refectance, red-green, and blue-yellow hue.
- Widow
- In composition, a single work in a line by itself, ending a paragraph, or starting a page, frowned upon in good typography.
- Wire side
- In papermaking, the side of a sheet next to the wire in manufacturing; opposite from felt or top side.
- Wire-o binding
- A continuous double series of wire loops run through punched slots along binding side of a booklet.
- With the grain
- Folding or feeding paper into a press parallel to the grain of the paper.
- Woodcut
- An illustration in lines of varying thickness, cut in relief on plank-grain wood, for the purpose of making prints.
- Woodfree Papers
- Term used to describe paper made from chemically produced pulp which does not contain lignin. A more precise description would be Lignin Free Paper.
- Word processor
- A typewriter connected to a computerised recording medium to input, edit and output data.
- Work and tumble
- To print one side of a sheet of paper, then turn it over from gripper to back using the same side guide and plate to print the second side.
- Work and turn
- To print one side of a sheet of paper, then turn it over from left to right and print the second side using the same gripper and plate but opposite side guide.
- WORM
- Acronym for Write Once Read Many Times - a type of optical memory device.
- Wove paper
- Paper having a uniform unlined surface and a soft smooth finish.
- Wrinkles
- Creases in paper occurring during printing. In inks, the uneven surface formed during drying.
- Wrong font
- In proof reading, the mark "WF" indicates a letter or figure of the wrong size or face.