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Letterpress The first ever press was a Letterpress. It basically uses stamps to grab ink and place it on the paper (or other material). Think of a typewriter, but doing whole pages in one press. Of course, this took long to do as each page was setup before by hand and manually placing these letter stamps in place. As time went on, full page stamps were created instead to make the process easier (though still inefficient compared to other methods). Today however, the Letterpress is not used much as it is not an efficient and far too expensive method of printing. Offset Lithography This method of printing is the most common used today. It is also one of the oldest. It works on the principle that water and oil (ink) don't mix. Using metal or polyester sheets (called plates), image and non-image areas are burned onto the plate using light to expose the image areas. this plate is attached onto a cylinder that as it goes around on the press, picks up water onto...
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7 steps to best manage colors while printing

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Equipment   Let's start with the most important "tool" you'll ever buy for digital workflow - because it's your window on the digital world I advise you to use a decent quality display screen for your work. Using a good, well calibrated, screen is the only way to really “see” your images truly. Flat panel screens are great now the technology has reached a level of maturity suitable for use in serious imaging work, just be be sure to choose the right manufacturer and model. I'll often suggest an Eizo, as an  Eizo reseller , I welcome the opportunity to talk with clients about making this choice sensibly - don't just throw money at the situation, the right advice can save you wasting cash. Display system optimisation   It's important to set up the screen up accurately so that it displays images in a way that matches the accepted standards for print viewing. It is essential to calibrate and profile the “display system” using a good har...
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5 things you need to know about White Ink

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White Ink is the extra exceptional fifth colour in our printing process which will take your designs to a whole new level of creativity. Here we explain the five things you need to know about White Ink and how you can get the most out of it. How is White Ink different to normal print processes? The entire spectrum of printed colours is made up of cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK), but not white. This elusive beast used to be rarer than a genuine yeti sighting until now. The kind of White Ink printing we offer is ‘spot white’. This means that the ink appears as a colour in a design, like printing a white flower onto a coloured paper stock, for example. Because white is a light coloured ink, we need to layer the ink up and get a stronger colour, which means the finished effect won’t be transparent against the coloured card.  By adding white as the fifth colour in the CMYK printing process, you can use vibrant, brightly coloured paper stocks and still get whi...
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