Glossary of Terms

Detailed definitions for these terms are available on the "Members Only" side of this IMDA website.

1st Surface Printing
2nd Surface Printing
3-D IMD
3-Plate Runner

Activation Temperature
Appliqué

Banana Gate
Basis Weight
Bleeding
Blistering
Blocking
Blow Pin
Blow Molder
Bond Strength
BOPP
Bubbles
Bubbling

C2S
Caliper
Cast Film
Cavitated Film
Clamping Station
Cling
Clustering
Coextrusion
COF
Cold Slug
Converter
Contamination
Couponing
Crack
Crazing
Curl

Delamination
Denesting
Die Cut
Die Cut Punch
Dimensional Stability
Discoloration
Double Picking

EB-IML
Edge Welding
EVOH
Extruder
Extrusion

Feathering
FIML
Flagging
Flame Treat
Flash
Flexo(graphy)
Foil Stamping
Forming Dent
Form Register Defect
Friction

Gang Filling
Gate
Gel Lacquer
Graphic Streak
Gravure

HBA
HDPE
Heat Resistance
Heat Transfer
Heat Seal Coating
HIC Containers
High Die Cutting
Hot Runner Manifold
Hot Tack
Hydroforming

IMD
IM-IML
IML
IML Foot
In-case Filling
Injection IML
Injection Stretch Blow Molding (ISBM)
Ink Wash

Knit Lines

Lenticular
Letterpress
Lint

Match Metal Die
MD
Mold Release
MSI
MSW
Multi-shot Molding

Narrow Web

Offset Lithography
Offware
OPP
Orange Peel
Overprint Lacquer

Packaging
Panel Bulge
Parison
PCR
PET
PP
Pick and Place
Pin Gate
Pitting
Puckering

Regrind
Release Liner
Retained Solvents
Rheology
Rippling
Rotary DieCutting
Rotary Machine
Rotary Screen
Runner

Scrap
Scratches
Set-off Powder
Shuttle Machine
Sink Marks
Slip
Spot
Sprue
Sprue Gate
Steel Rule Die
Stress Mark
Sub Gate

Tab Gate
TD
Thermoform IML

UV Flexo

Vacuum Port 
Valve Gate
Vertical Insert Molding
Viscosity

Web
Wheel machine

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