Journal

Paper weight and ink lift

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Below about 180gsm the drum starts lifting fibres off the sheet and depositing them back onto the master. You see it first as a faint speckle in solid areas, and by sheet thirty it has become a texture you did not ask for.

  • 120gsm — fine for single-colour text, unreliable for solids
  • 180gsm — the practical floor for two-colour work
  • 220gsm — what we standardised on
  • 300gsm — beautiful, and it jams