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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.

Work and tumble is to print on 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.

With the Grain refers to the feeding of paper into a press that aligns the grain direction of the paper to be parallel with the blade for cutting or folding.

Toner, as opposed to ink, is used in digital printing and is a dry, powdery substance that is fried to the paper during the printing process.

Tolerances in printing are the acceptable variations in printing parameters such as registration, stock thickness, dot size, etc.

Text paper, or book paper, refers to the thinner paper typically used for the inside pages of books and booklets.

The final size of the document after the last cut is made.

Substrate is any material that can be printed on including plastic.

Stock is the term for paper to be printed on.

Spreads refer to a set of adjacent facing pages on the inside of a book or booklet.