Must Know Printing Knowledge
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Printing is the technology of reproducing the contents of the original manuscript in bulk by transferring the ink to the surface of paper, textiles, plastic products, leather, PVC, PC and other materials through the process of plate making, inking and pressurizing. Printing is the process of transferring the reviewed and approved printing plates to the substrate through printing machines and specialized inks.
Definition According to the latest national standard GB/T9851.1-2008, printing is defined as “the reproduction process of transferring a colorant/colorant (e.g., ink) to a substrate using an analog or digital image carrier”.
What does the printing process include? Pre-press, refers to the pre-printing work, mainly including photography, design, production, typesetting, output film proofing and other links. This is a very important stage in the whole printing process, because it determines the final quality and effect of the printed materials.
Mid-printing is the mid-printing stage, the process of printing a finished product through a printing press. At this stage, the printing press transfers the ink from the printing plate to the substrate, thus completing the print.
Post-press, refers to the work in the later stages of printing, mainly post-processing treatments for printed materials. These treatments include binding, folding, laminating, varnishing, oiling, UV, hot stamping, embossing and many other processes.
Print Resolution Print resolution is the number of pixels per inch (Pixel per Inch, PPI), or the number of dots of ink per inch (Dots per Inch, DPI), that a print can represent, which determines the fineness of detail in a printed image.
Resolution determines the fineness of detail in a bitmap image. Typically, the higher the resolution of an image, the more pixels it contains and the sharper the image. However, print quality is not only dependent on resolution, but is also affected by a variety of other factors.
In addition to the basic RGB, CMYK and Lab modes, there are also bitmap, grayscale, duotone, indexed color and multi-channel modes, and these color modes have their own special uses.
