methold of printing
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...