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The main purpose of most primers is to improve the adhesion of the finish paint by providing a non-glossy surface that binds the surface to be painted and the finish paint.
Do it yourself: a primer on paint primers Gene Austin 2010
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Their catalogue is even printed on non-glossy recycled newsprint.
Boos and Yahoos kittenpie 2007
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I would research the idea of consolidating titles a la manga in an effort to keep the price point-to-content ratio worthwhile. or possibly going back to non-glossy, cheaper paper, perhaps a slightly smaller size, or printing two books in one, with one story on the odd number pages, then you flip it, and the other story is on the odd number pages going the other way.
NYCC ‘09: A Conversation With Dan DiDio — The Home Game! 2009
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Their catalogue is even printed on non-glossy recycled newsprint.
Archive 2007-09-01 kittenpie 2007
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And he emerged from his prison the same spoiled, pettish rich kid, having tantrums, dumping his non-glossy crippled wife, etc., etc.
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It was still much nicer than the near-newsprint quality our competitors used, but lighter than our original stock and non-glossy.
The price of comics | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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"Interview" back in the day was started by Andy Warhol as "The Crystal Ball Of Pop", and when I was getting it in the early 80's was a large-format magazine printed on non-glossy paper with gorgeous covers that looked like a cross between air-brushing and graffiti; impossibly handsome pictures of the impossibly handsome stars of the day.
Archive 2007-12-01 Marina Geigert 2007
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"Interview" back in the day was started by Andy Warhol as "The Crystal Ball Of Pop", and when I was getting it in the early 80's was a large-format magazine printed on non-glossy paper with gorgeous covers that looked like a cross between air-brushing and graffiti; impossibly handsome pictures of the impossibly handsome stars of the day.
Perfume Review: Bond No 9 Andy Warhol Silver Factory Marina Geigert 2007
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The message, if any, is muted; the iron grates and graceful archways and fading façades and crumbling Beaux Arts cornices exist in a gentle limbo, an economic miasma suggested by the misty look of photographic reproduction on relatively inexpensive, non-glossy paper.
After Katrina Updike, John 2006
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The only real problem is with the coloring: in places it is too dark and muddy and the detail is lost; not really the fault of the colorist, as she was coloring for a book that was originally glossy paper and this digest is on a non-glossy stock that absorbs ink differently and doesn't show as much definition and contrast.
Quick GN Reviews David S. Carter 2005
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