Printing Proccesses
Screen Printing
Force ink or metal on to a surface through a prepared screen of fine material so as to create a picture or pattern
Process
Mesh stapled to a wooden or metal frame
Masking tape around outside of screen
stencil design cut
stencil placed under frame but above paper
line of ink placed at one end of screen
use squeegee to draw ink across screen, pressing firmly
Cost
Screen Printed Shirt
$3.50
1 colour print on 100% cotton t-shirt
$5.50 to $9.00
Gravure
Direct transfer method for printing
Process
Cost
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$1 million for machine
products
Food Packaging
Wall Paper
Wrapping Paper
Furniture Laminates
Paneling
Magazines
Lithography
Process
Cost
Products
process of printing from a flat surface
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Thermography
printing process causes text or graphics to be raised slightly
Process
press sheets printed using regular offset press, special type of ink that doesn't immediately dry
Only one side of the substrate can be printed using thermography
Combines traditional printing method with a specific type of finish
Imposition
Process of arranging many pages so that once completted, the publication appears in the right order and orientation
Scoring and perforating
Crease documents for easy folding and processing
Folding
Paper folding
Embossing
process of creating a pattern which is raised against the background
Die cutting
Metal, paper or other material shaping process in which a metal die with sharp edges is pressed into material to cut it
Stitching
Process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping felids of view to produce a segmented panorama or high resolution image
Binding
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Saddle Stitching
Pages bound together by driving staples through the centre of the spine of folded sheets