An Introduction to Different Types of Printing

1. An Introduction To Different Types Of Printing Have you ever thought of printing some brochures or business cards Jacksonville FL for business and been bewildered by the technical jargon you heard? You might not be running a business related to printing technology but whatever business you have, you will find a need to use printing technology sooner or later. That is why it is better to have at least a rudimentary idea of some aspects of printing technology. Types of printing processes Offset Lithography: The word offset refers to the image of the content that would be printed, which consists of grooves in such a way that only those grooved parts contain (or hold) the ink when the plate having this image is filled with ink. Once the paper gets fed into the press, the imprint of the plate gets printed on the paper. The most common uses of offset lithography is in the printing of posters, books, newspapers, stationary, corrugated boards etc. Screen Printing: Just like the earlier method of Jacksonville printing used a plate, the screen printing method uses a screen for doing the printing. There are two parts of this screen, depending on the content to be printed. One part, where the ink goes into, is permeable and allows the ink to seep through. The remaining parts have an impermeable structure and the ink is not able to go through. This screen is then put onto the surface to be printed, and the inked images get transferred. The flexibility of this process allows it to be used on a variety of surfaces and different materials. Inkjet Printing: The name for this type of printing comes from the fact that the printed image is made of very fine droplets of ink which are sprayed from the nozzle of the printer head. The quality of the content printed is very high, and this method is quite popular with printing companies in Jacksonville FL because of their quality and the speed of output. Xerography: This process is more commonly known as laser printing. The reason for this is that it works by the principle of selectively applying an electrical charge to a cylindrical drum, which gets those specific charged points to attract ink particles, leaving the uncharged portions dry. A Comparison of the Old and New Of the different printing types listed above, the last two named (inkjet printing and laser printing) are collectively called digital printing, and they are the modern methods of printing. They are growing in popularity, but that doesn’t mean the older methods like offset printing do not have their advantages. For instance, offset printing would provide much better color fidelity and higher image quality. When you are dealing with larger printing volumes, offset printing works out to be a much cheaper alternative. On the other hand, digital printing is much faster, and helps you get identical prints over and over again. Conclusion

2. There are a number of printing companies which have moved over to the newer forms of printing, but in case you prefer the predictability and dependability of the more traditional forms, you can find good printing agencies which can do that for you as well.