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For details on these commonly used acronyms in the development of TAPPI Standards and TIPs, please see the Standards Guidelines and the TIP Guidelines, or send your questions to standards@tappi.org.

TIP = Technical Information Paper
Q&SMC = Quality and Standards Management Committee
SSIG = Standard-Specific Interest Group 
SARG = Standards Advisory Review Group 
WI = Work Item 
WG = Working Group 
WGC = Working Group Chair 
om = Official Method 
pm = Provisional Method 
sp = Standard Practice
cm = Classical Method
ss = Standard Specification 
ss = Standard Specification 
sg = Standard Guideline
gl = Standard Glossary 
wd = Withdrawn Standard
UM = Useful Method

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