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Basics of Printing

Basics of Printing. Understanding Ink on Paper Randy Thompson Director, Business Development. Ink to Paper. Printing Technologies Offset Lithography Ink to plate….to blanket….to paper Flexography Ink to raised rubber plate image….to paper Thermography

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Basics of Printing

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  1. Basics of Printing Understanding Ink on Paper Randy Thompson Director, Business Development

  2. Ink to Paper • Printing Technologies • Offset Lithography • Ink to plate….to blanket….to paper • Flexography • Ink to raised rubber plate image….to paper • Thermography • Raised printing using special ink and powders • Digital Printing • Plate-less printing--Ink-jet, Thermal Transfer, Xerography

  3. Ink to Paper • Press types • Sheetfed • Small to Large • Sheets in / Sheets out • Single to Multiple Color Printing • Most common presses used

  4. Hand Mounting Plates

  5. Auto Plate Hangers for Precise Color Registration

  6. Feed End of Sheetfed

  7. Checking Color during Make-ready Phase on 5 color

  8. Heidelberg DI Press using Polyester Plates mounted inside Press

  9. Checking a Press Sheet Against a Match Print Proof

  10. Using a Loop to Check Final Registration

  11. Ink to Paper • Press Types • WebPresses • Cold Web • Heatset Web

  12. Ink to Paper • Press Types • Cold Web • Fed by rolls of paper • Roll to Roll or Roll to Sheet • Smaller formats • Forms Production • Newsprint

  13. Feed End of Cold Forms Web Press

  14. Job Make-ready on Forms Web Press

  15. Forms Job Running--Delivery End

  16. Perfecting Turnbar in-between print towers on Cold Forms Web press

  17. Ink to Paper • Press types • Heatset Web • Commercial Long run • Half and Full Web sizes • 4 color and up • Heat tunnel dries, or “sets” inks printed • Magazines, catalogs, long run collateral

  18. Ink to Paper • Thermography • Raised Printing • Print with slow dry ink • Sprinkle special heat reactive powder • Vacuum off excess • Run through Heat Tunnel • Powder melts…mixes with ink and dries leaving “raised” image

  19. Press Operator Printing Business Cards

  20. Printed sheets entering Thermo unit

  21. Thermo powder applied and vacuum

  22. Thermo powder melts and fuses with ink and dried

  23. Ink to PaperRecap • Printing Technologies • Printing Press Types • Sheet-fed Presses • Web-fed Presses • Themography • Quoting Variables

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