Basics Of Offset Printing
Together with the advancement of technology, new ways of printing have also come up. The digital technology has been presenting innovative ways to go around printing just about any print job you could possibly think of. However, amidst these developments, a lot of printing companies still choose to work with the conventional way of offset printing.
Compared to digital printing, offset printers consume more time but this is justified with the quality of the prints you would get from it. This process of printing is usually used in high volume print jobs as its quality of printing is known to be unquestionable even though it prints thousands of print jobs already.
The two most common offset printer machines that companies use today is the Komori Printer and the Mitsubishi Printer. This process of printing could also be called 4 color press with coating wherein you could choose your protective coating to be gloss or matte finish. Coating is default when it comes to this printing technique however, you could ask your prints to be customized and not to be applied with the coating. The only print jobs does not get coated usually are your envelopes and letterheads because these are prints you are supposed to write on and having the coating would not allow you to do that.
You must know how the flow of your prints would go if ever you would ask your print jobs to be done through offset printing because through this, you could closely guide how the printing goes. The following would be the flow your print jobs would have to go through in offset printing.
1. You would first have to find the website of your desired printing company and once you have found one, you would upload your print job there.
2. The prepress or graphic designers of the companies would then check and make necessary adjustments to your work and send it back to you for your approval.
3. After you have approved the final work, you would then be asked to upload your print job through the website wherein the prepress would then pass your print jobs to the gang file. This is the process wherein the print jobs are managed.
4. Right after this, your print orders would then go through the image setter which transfers the image of your prints to the plate setter.
5. Once the plates are produced, they will them be loaded to the offset printer which does all the printing work.
6. As soon as your prints are done, they would then go to the cutting and folding machine which obviously cuts and folds your prints the way you want it to be.
7. Lastly, after all the printing,folding and cutting is done, the printing company could then ship or mail your print jobs to you.
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