Paper And boards

Question 1

What are paper and boards formed from?

Answer 1

Wood pulp which is rolled into thin sheets in paper mill factories to form the paper and boards

Question 2

Difference between paper and board?

Answer 2

Weight, anything less than 200 GSM is a paper, anything over is a board

Question 3

What is GSM

Answer 3

Grams Per Square Meter

Question 4

Papers are named how?

Answer 4

A Something, Referring to size, double each time (E.G, A4 is half A3)

Question 5

What would you use for rough sketching

Answer 5

Layout paper

Question 6

What’s bleed proof paper?

Answer 6

Paper where the ink doesn’t spread.

Question 7

What would use for copying

Answer 7

Tracing paper

Question 8

Treated paper?

Answer 8

Photographs

Question 9

Watercolour

Answer 9

Painting

Question 10

For packaging?

Answer 10

Corrugated or duplex

Question 11

Duplex card?

Answer 11

Two layered card, mostly used In packagingn

Question 12

Moulded paper

Answer 12

For drink holders

Question 13

What are the processes used to form paper and boards?1

Answer 13

Bending, laser cutting, die cutting.

Question 14

What is laser cutting

Answer 14

A laser heats the material to cut it.

Question 15

What is die cutting?

Answer 15

A die of the shape wanted to be cut out with a serrated edge is pushed down onto the paper or board to cut through it.