Thick coated paper

The highest quality paper which has strong durability hasn't peper's roughness, used for covers and posters. since paper is thick enough to prevent causing bleed_through, you can concentrate only descreening and dust cleaning while precessing.
colors are different by prints due to its coating difference. also coated papers allow to use one special color out of CMYK and make color adjustment more difficult.

Thin coated paper

Similar to thick coated paper, but its thinness causes bleed_through. used for magazine posters like megami or hime, and some pamphlets, doujinshi.

Thick uncoated paper

A major paper used for artbook's inner papges. it doesn't have bleed_though, but roughness of papers causes noises of its phisical shadows.

Thin uncoated paper

A cheap paper mainly used for magazines. both bleed_though and paper_texture noises are higher than anypapers mentioned above.

special paper

There are many type of papers not categorized previous 4. textured papers is one of them and many doujinshis are using it.

Updated by midzki about 14 years ago