Mill crews rarely say web: the paper running on the machine is the sheet, as in sheet break, sheet moisture or the sheet is two-sided. It also means the grade as a whole, so a printer complaint about the sheet concerns the paper, not one cut piece. Only in the finishing room and at the customer does sheet go back to meaning a single cut piece.
Heard on the job
Sheet is running wet on the back side, bump the steam on the last dryer section.
Also heard as
- web
Related terms
Break
Tear of the running paper web on the machine, which sends everything to broke until the sheet is rethreaded.
Tail
Narrow strip cut from the edge of the sheet and threaded through the machine first after a break.
Reel
Winding station at the end of the paper machine, and the full-width roll of paper wound there.