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Combining merchandise for shipping purposes.

The grammage is th weight per surface area of paper or cardboard. It is measured as grams per square meter (ex.: 80g/m².) A 300 g sheet of paper weighs 300 g per m². The higher the weight, the more rigid the paper/cardboard.

The global standard for organic textiles (GOTS – Global Organic Textile Standard) dates from 2002. It was created at the Intercot conference, which brought together in Düsseldorf (Germany) representatives of organic cotton producers, the textile industry, consumers, and standardization and certification bodies. Today it is a worldwide reference for textiles made from organic fibres.

It is a highly waterproof and breathable synthetic fabric.

Gauze is a light, transparent and openwork fabric made from threads of cotton, linen, wool, silk…

Non-marketable manufacturing fraction required to set up the machines. Thus the notion of the manufacturing tolerance for the amount of manufactured packaging. If the waste is very low, the quantity of manufactured packagings can be superior to the ordered quantity and vice-versa if the waste is high.

The format is the width and the length of a sheet. For a pouch, we rather speak of width and height once the packaging is assembled. The format is chosen according to the product to be packed: just big enough for the object to fit without rattling around, not too big to avoid wasting fabric. A good format saves material over the whole run. Our dimensions are on request, within the limit of the width of the chosen fabric. Your made-to-measure pouch,at your dimensions, in the price request forms.

It is the main German organization for graphic industry standards which, with EFI (Rip Best,) set up an installer proofing system certification procedure. This digital and contractual proof guarantees the final quality of a document’s press print. It meets the ISO 12647-2 international standard which corresponds to the 39 Fogra standard. This is the offset printing standard.

Flexography is a method of printing in relief from photopolymer plates that allows direct transfer of ink to the substrate. This process makes it possible to print most materials such as corrugated board paper and plastic films. It is not used for fabric printing.

The prepress step in which each colour of an artwork is exposed separately onto photographic film. The resulting separation films are then used to produce the printing plates. Also called imagesetting when referring to the process performed by an imagesetter.