Wood Vessel Segments From the Paper Surface
Every year, small businesses around the country open without thinking much about imagery that becomes your makeup. It is how other people will form opinions by what they see. In your first year or two of a new business, developing your image is incredibly vital to the perception your audience has. You can help insure there are printed consistencies by understanding what can go wrong with your commercial printing; here’s one way:
Look through a printer's loupe
- Wood vessel segment being pulled from the paper surface.
- Looking through a printer’s loupe at a wood vessel segment that has been pulled through the sheet, but has not picked off onto the blanket.
- Photos at 30x which show the characteristic shapes of wood vessel segments.
Wood Vessel Segments are fibers which, because of their composition, are difficult to remove during pulping procedures, and tend to be poorly bound into a coated paper. (Figure 1)
The tack of the ink could exceed the binding strength of these segments and pull them from the paper’s surface leaving a ruptured speck. (Figure 2)
Wood Vessel Segments have characteristic shapes and can quickly be identified under a low magnification glass by viewing the print. (Figure 3)
4. Debris on the blanket from wood vessel segments pulling from the sheet.
See the debris on the blanket from wood vessel segments
5. A tape pull of a single wood vessel segment. The first corrective measure taken should be to try a different lot of paper. If any ink changes are contemplated, the ink manufacturer should be consulted immediately. Vessel segments will appear as white particles on the blanket. (Figure 4 inset) A tape pull should be taken from the blanket which will reveal the characteristic shape of this wood fiber. (Figure 5)
If you start to notice specks in your printing or dust fragments in non printed areas, these could definitely be sign of wood vessel segments from the paper. Be sure to speak to your printing company immediately so the problem can be addressed quickly and effectively.
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