Special Reviews of the Recent Trends of Printing Paper

Technical Trends of Offset Paper in Recent Years

Abstract

In recent years. especially in Japan. the Grading System of Coated Offset Printing Paper has been changed, and “Bitoko-shi” or Slightly Coated Machine Finished Paper (MFC) appeared. In this paper, focused on MFC producing process. Recent Technical Trends in Coater and Calender, especially in On/Machine-Coater and Softcalender are revealed. Recent Studies about the relationship between Mottle and Coated Offset Paper structure and properties. are also reviewed.