paper and card

Question 1

Compliant Materials

Answer 1

A material that can be scored, folded and cut with basic tooling to form items such as nets for packaging.

Question 2

Why is corrugated card suitable for a take away food container?

Answer 2

It is compliant material (shaped with a die cutter), food safe, insulating, lightweight, single use (easily recycled) and biodegradable.

Question 3

Layout paper

Answer 3

Thin translucent paper with a smooth surface used for sketching, technical drawing and tracing

Question 4

Cartridge paper

Answer 4

off-white paper with a smooth surface used for rendering, sketching, printing

Question 5

Tracing paper

Answer 5

A translucent paper used for copying images when sketching

Question 6

Corrugated card

Answer 6

Carton board outer layer and corrugated middle lay giving the material to provide protection against impact

Question 7

Duplex Card

Answer 7

To layers of paper with the exterior often coated to make it more water resistant, Used for food packaging, milk cartons.

Question 8

Stock forms

Answer 8

A sizes. Each A size is half the size of the other previous one. Measured in GSM. Photocopying paper tends to be 80gsm and cartridge around 140gsm.