Printing Process Elements Printed Materials
Paper: As the basic material for printing, its quality directly affects the appearance and feel of the printed matter. Ink: A substance used to apply to a printing plate, the properties and color of which have an important impact on the color and quality of the printed matter. Printing plate: The part used to reproduce graphics and texts, generally made of metal or resin. Printing equipment: printing machine: the core equipment to realize the printing process, including plate making unit, printing unit, binding unit, etc. Auxiliary equipment: such as blanket (ink transfer), wetting agent (wet paper), paper transport equipment, etc. Printing process steps: Plate making: Text and images are made through various techniques
Four-color printing: Four-color printing refers to the use of blue (C), magenta (M), yellow (Y), black (K) four inks for printing, all colors can be mixed by these four inks, and finally color graphics and texts are realized. Spot color printing: Spot color printing refers to the printing of the color with a special ink, which is brighter than the color mixed by four colors. Commonly used is special gold, special silver. Over UV: Over UV refers to the part of the printed matter that needs to be highlighted for local glazing and brightening, so that the local pattern has a more three-dimensional effect. Resolution: Resolution refers to the number of pixels per inch contained on a bitmap image, measured in DPI (pixels per inch). Resolution determines how detailed a bitmap image is, and in general, the higher the resolution of an image, the more pixels it contains, the sharper the image, and the better the quality of the print. Bleeding: Bleeding refers to the part of the print that needs to extend beyond the cropped edge of the print to ensure that the finished product is printed