Digital Paper Tips

—Meyer Weiss, InteliCoat Technologies

• Minimum brightness level should be 92 TAPPI GE standard and opacity should be 94 or higher. The smoothness of uncoated and coated papers varies. Uncoated papers should have a smoothness reading of 100 or lower. Coated digital papers should be 1.0 or lower. Also, the higher the brightness, the better the contrast between printed and unprinted areas, and the smoother the sheet, the better the image "lays down" when printed, thus avoiding a rough or mottled appearance.