Transparency

1. Change furnish if possible.
— sulfite pulps refine more easily than kraft pulps.
2. Increase total amount of refining, especially fibrillating refining to enhance fiber collapse and bonding
3. Improve formation.
— a well formed sheet is important to transparency.
4. Increase sheet moisture into size press to increase starch pick-up.
5. Increase reel moisture and/or dampener moisture to help calendering operation.
6. Increase temperature, pressure or number of nips in calendering.