GRA 533 Lecture Notes - Anilox, Halftone, Offset Printing
8 Jan 2014
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Slide 1: can use an intermediate to film, and expose through that, we use direct lasers for flexo plates. Flexo has raised surface and is wrapped around a cylinder: digital printing refers to commercial printing, flexographic printing: raised surface and wrapped around cylinder. Occupies majority of the printing (magazines, books) National geographic and coffee table books printed using this. Short runs: offset litho: majority of printing done, in terms of volume, not the most rapidly growing, flexo: growing, increasing demands, rotogravure: long publications, ex: national geographic, coffee table books, and packaging. Operators don"t pull or cause a draft when ink is hitting paper. Inkjet printers are running at offset speeds: paper doesn"t pull or cause a draft when ink is hitting paper, ex: textbooks and short-run books or even advanced copies of books, future of our industry because it is scalable. Slide 5 commercial printing revenue by process (us$ million) Any company that"s doing offset lithography will become instinct.
