Practical, technical, economical.
Main processes;
- Rotary printing
- Digital printing
- Screen printing
- Pad printing
Rotary printing
Image printing plates are wrapped around a cylinder. Its a automated print process.
The bigger version of rotary printing is a WEB offset machine, mainly used for mass printing I.E newspapers.
Rotogravure- Typical print jobs- Newspapers, wooden floors, high volume work thats very durable.
Flexography- A positive, mirror image transposed on a rubber plate, where sticky ink is directly transfered onto print surface, usually as a roll feed. usually used for crisp packets, bottle labels, cling films etc.
Lithography (Litho) Planographic
Rotogravure (Gravure) Intaglio
Flexography (Flexo) Relif
Digital printing- The reproduction of images by translating the digital code direct from a computer to a material without an intermediate physical process.
Ideally suited to short run or special ranges of print.
Screen Print- A printmaking technique that uses a stencil and screen exposed by UV light.
Pad Printing- A printing process that can transfer a 2-D image onto a 3-D object. i.e keyrings, mugs.
Colour systems for the print process
Print is made up of subtractive colour-screen is made up of additive colour
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