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Paper smoothness, one of the most important printing characteristics, has since long been measured with the Oken procedure, Sheffield procedure, Bendtsen tester, Gurley SPS tester or the like, depend upon air permeability and change in air inner pressure. However, these procedures resorting to physical properties involve difficulty in evaluating printing aptitude of paper. Parker Print-Surf (P.P.S.), a 1965’s development by John Parker M.A in the U.K., was highly appreciated by many researchers, as a means to test the aptitude of paper for gravure printing. In 1985, this procedure was adopted as an English standard (BS) and in 1992 as an ISO standard.
The principle is as follows: an extremely thin measurement ring is pressed over the surface of a specimen with a certain level of pressure, and air of stable low pressure is fed from the inside of the ring. The air leaks out from the surface at the extremity where the measurement ring and the paper contact each other. The leak air volume varies with the roughness of a paper sheet, and the amount of leaked air volume is represented as an indicator of paper surface roughness in micron meters.

参考規格 :

• [JIS]P-8151
• [TAPPI]555om-99
• [ISO]8791-4:1992, BS 6563:1985