The Thickness of Printing Paper List

Posted on 09-05-2013 by admin

Name Thickness/mm Name Thickness/mm
80gsm art paper 0.065 105gsm matt coated paper 0.09
105gsm art paper 0.085 128gsm matt coated paper 0.12
128gsm art paper 0.105 157gsm matt coated paper 0.16
157gsm art paper 0.135 200gsm matt coated paper 0.19
200gsm art paper 0.17 210gsm matt coated paper 0.21
210gsm art paper 0.19 230gsm matt coated paper 0.23
230gsm art paper 0.21 250gsm matt coated paper 0.25
250gsm art paper 0.23 300gsm matt coated paper 0.34-0.35
300gsm art paper 0.305 350gsm matt coated paper 0.365
350gsm art paper 0.345 60gsm matt coated paper 0.06
400gsm art paper 0.41    
 
60gsm bond paper 0.08 210gsm signle side coated board 0.2
70gsm bond paper 0.09 230gsm signle side coated board 0.295
80gsm bond paper 0.10 250gsm signle side coated board 0.32
100gsm bond paper 0.12 300gsm signle side coated board 0.425
120gsm bond paper 0.135 350gsm signle side coated board 0.46
140gsm bond paper 0.16 400gsm signle side coated board 0.54
180gsm bond paper 0.19    
    250gsm ivory board 0.31
    300gsm ivory board 0.32
250gsm grey back MC board 0.295 350gsm ivory board 0.49
300gsm grey back MC board 0.37    
400gsm grey back MC board 0.48 100gsm Munken  
450gsm grey back MC board 0.55 115gsm Munken 0.15
       
210gsm C1S art board 0.26 230gsm C1S art board 0.28
250gsm C1S art board 0.325 280gsm C1S art board 0.36
300gsm C1S art board 0.40 350gsm C1S art board 0.48
Name Thickness/mm Name Thickness/mm
300gsm grey board 0.45 400gsm grey board 0.6
467gsm grey board 0.7 533gsm grey board 0.8
600gsm grey board 0.9 645gsm grey board 1.0
714gsm grey board 1.1 779gsm grey board 1.2
844gsm grey board 1.3 909gsm grey board 1.4
974gsm grey board 1.5 1039gsm grey board 1.6
1104gsm grey board 1.7 1169gsm grey board 1.8
 1234gsm grey board 1.9 1299gsm grey board 2.0
1364gsm grey board 2.1 1429gsm grey board 2.2
1623gsm grey board 2.5 1688gsm grey board 2.6
1753gsm grey board 2.7 1818gsm grey board 2.8
1883gsm grey board 2.9 1848gsm grey board 3.0
2013gsm grey board 3.1 2273gsm grey board 3.5
2597gsm grey board 4.0    
 
60gsm kraft paper 0.10 30gsm bible paper 0.04
80gsm kraft paper 0.12 32gsm bible paper 0.04
120gsm kraft paper 0.17 35gsm bible paper 0.05
CMYK Color Model
Posted on 09-04-2013 by admin

Color printing typically uses ink of four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black). When CMY "primaries"
are combined at full strength, the resulting "secondary" mixtures are red, green, and blue.

Mixing all three theoretically results in black, but imperfect ink formulations do not give true black, which is why
the additional K component is needed.

The CMYK color model (process color, four color) is a subtractive color model, used in color printing, and is
also used to describe the printing process itself. CMYK refers to the four inks used in some color printing: cyan,
magenta, yellow, and key (black). Though it varies by print house, press operator, press manufacturer, and
press run, ink is typically applied in the order of the abbreviation.

The "K" in CMYK stands for key because in four-color printing, cyan, magenta, and yellow printing plates are
carefully keyed, or aligned, with the key of the black key plate. Some sources suggest that the "K" in CMYK
comes from the last letter in "black" and was chosen because B already means blue. The CMYK model works
by partially or entirely masking colors on a lighter, usually white, background. The ink reduces the light that
would otherwise be reflected. Such a model is called subtractive because inks "subtract" brightness from white.

In additive color models such as RGB, white is the "additive" combination of all primary colored lights, while
black is the absence of light. In the CMYK model, it is the opposite: white is the natural color of the paper or
other background, while black results from a full combination of colored inks. To save money on ink, and to
produce deeper black tones, unsaturated and dark colors are produced by using black ink instead of the
combination of cyan, magenta and yellow.