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