Register (pressure)
As register is register of front referred to back in the printing process. This includes, for example, that the state of the Pagina , the type area or other elements on both sides are the same. The register is checked during printing by holding the page up to the light and thus the position of the corresponding element can be viewed through the paper ( sheet ). Practically affects register accuracy of as meaning that all elements of the set of the mirror , in particular the rows of a book are exactly over each other. Especially if the paper has only low opacity (e.g. with thin printing ), a constant gray value of the pages is guaranteed.
literature
- Philipp Luidl: Typography. Origin, structure, application. 2nd edition. Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-87706-290-3 , pp. 86-89