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pelliculé mat

English translation: matt laminated

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French term or phrase:	pelliculé mat
English translation:	matt laminated
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10:24 Sep 18, 2009

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French term or phrase: pelliculé mat

Hello
The following comes from a tender regulations document. This extract deals with printing instructions for the cover of the doc that is to be tendered for. I am translating "papier couché" as coated paper, can't quite understand whether "pelliculé mat" is a separate thing or part of the cover, maybe they've missed off an "et"
thanks
Anne
Couverture : impression quadrichromie sur papier couché mat pelliculé mat 300 g.

Anne Greaves KudoZ activity Questions: 103 (2 open) (1 without valid answers) (7 closed without grading) Answers: 0 United Kingdom
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Cover: four colour printing on 300g matt coated paper.

Explanation:
mat pelliculé is in fact 'matt (as opposed to gloss) coated.' In other words the paper is a high quality book printing matt coated cartidge paper. 300g is a cover thickness.

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As it's a cover you can add laminated to explain it's a protective coating. Four colour printing on 300g matt coated paper with matt laminate.

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telletubby
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Cover: four colour printing on 300g matt coated paper.

telletubby

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matte laminate

Nora Mahony

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matte laminate

Explanation:
They haven't missed out an 'et', but I can see why you thought so – it's a flat sort of grammatical construction.

The 'pelliculé' refers to something that has been coated with a kind of film or plastic. To do so in printing a book jacket refers to lettering or a whole image – it's laminated over the coated paper stock to seal the ink. Other options include gloss laminate, or 'spot gloss' or 'spot UV' for when only a certain area is shiny.

Reference: http://www.akemballages.com/boites-etuis-pliants.php

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