Materials and Components: Paper/card Flashcards
What are the 4 types of paper?
What are the 6 types of card?
Layout, Cartridge, Tracing, Grid
Card, Corrugated Card, Duplex Board, Solid White Board, Foam Core Board, Foil-Lined Board
What are 3 features of Layout paper?
- STRONG
- THIN
- TRANSLUCENT
What is one use of Layout paper?
General design work, e.g. sketching
What are 2 features of Cartridge paper?
- HIGH QUALITY
2. TEXTURED SURFACE
What is one use of Cartridge paper?
Sketching with pencils/crayons/pens because they don’t leak on the other side of the paper.
What is one feature of Tracing paper and one use?
Feature: Translucent
Use: To copy images
What is one feature of grid paper?
May have a squared OR isometric pattern
What is one use of SQUARED paper?
What is one use of ISOMETRIC paper?
Squared - useful for ORTHOGRAPHIC DRAWINGS
Isometric - useful for PRESENTATION DRAWINGS
What is Cardboard?
A type of card that is thicker than paper because it’s made up of lots of layers that have been glued/laminated together.
What is 1 feature of corrugated cardboard?
Made up of a fluted inner core between two outer layers.
What is one use of corrugated cardboard?
Secondary packaging
What are two features of Duplex Board?
- Has a different colour and texture on each side
- May have a waterproof liner on the inside
- Typically 250-500 gsm
What is one use of Duplex Board?
Food packaging, e.g. milk cartons
What are two features of solid-white boards?
- High quality beached surface (pulp)
2. Top quality cardboard
What are two uses of solid-white boards?
- Primary packaging
2. Hard-backed books
What are two features of Foam-core board?
- Lightweight
2. Easily cut
What are two uses of Foam-core board?
- Architectural models / prototypes
2. Mounting images
What are two features of Foil-lined board?
- Good quality card-board with aluminium foil-lining
2. The foil retains the heat, keeping the food warm.
What is one use of foil-lined board?
Ideal for ready-made meals or take away meals
What are the 7 different AVAILABILITIES of common components?
- To FASTEN (press stud fastenings, joining fabrics)
- To SEAL
- To HANG (hooks/hangers - for creating displays)
- To POUR
- To JOIN (prong paper fasteners - joining cards)
- To BIND (for books, e.g. comb/spiral binding)
- To INDEX (index tabs - to sort a book into sections)
What is LAMINATING?
Adding a layer of another material onto paper based boards.
What is the purpose of laminating paper based boards?
The composition can be adjusted to create different properties for specific purposes, e.g. foil-backed for food packaging or foam core board (polystyrene + foam)
What are the stock forms of paper/card materials?
Describe this arrangement of stock.
A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5
As the number increases, the smaller the size.
A0 is 1m^2. A1 is half of A0, A2 is half of A1, etc….
If a material has a thickness of less than 200 gsm, what is this classified as?
Paper
If a material has a thickness of more than 200 gsm, what is this classified as?
Card
How is paper made? State the 4 stages.
- Trees are cut down and taken by lorry to a paper mill.
- The bark is stripped off and used for things like playground flooring. The wood is cut into small pieces by a chipper.
- The small bits of wood are heated with chemicals to turn them into a mushy pulp.
- The pulp is washed and bleached to make it white. Then it’s pressed flat between rollers, dried and cut to size.
