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Offset Printing: Offset Printing Is Great For: Business Cards, Letterhead, Catalogs, Books/booklets, Business

Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique that involves transferring an inked image from a printing plate onto a rubber blanket and then onto paper. It is the highest quality and most cost effective printing process for various materials like business cards, brochures, books and more. The offset process uses lithography where images are separated into cyan, magenta, yellow and black plates and the inks are transferred from the plates onto the paper to recreate the full color image.

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Offset Printing: Offset Printing Is Great For: Business Cards, Letterhead, Catalogs, Books/booklets, Business

Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique that involves transferring an inked image from a printing plate onto a rubber blanket and then onto paper. It is the highest quality and most cost effective printing process for various materials like business cards, brochures, books and more. The offset process uses lithography where images are separated into cyan, magenta, yellow and black plates and the inks are transferred from the plates onto the paper to recreate the full color image.

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OFFSET PRINTING

Offset Printing is great for: business cards, letterhead, catalogs, books/booklets, business


forms, flyers, brochures, calendars, invitations and so much more.
Offset printing offers the best price per piece in the printing industry.
It is also the highest quality printing process in the industry. The process produces prints with rich, smooth solids
without the streaking found in lesser quality prints. Actual inks are used, not toner. The look and feel of any offset
product comes across as more professional.

Offset Printing

How It Works
Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique where an inked image is transferred (or “offset”) from a plate to
a rubber blanket, then to paper. The offset process is a lithographic process. Lithoghraphy is a process based on the
repulsion of oil and water.
An image that is offset printed is separated into its fundamental colors. (This example is assuming a 4 color job, ie. a
brochure with text and images. There are times when there is only one or two colors or even six or eight.)
The brochure would be broken down into the primary printing colors; cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK).
Thanks to computers this process has become easier. The image is broken down into these four colors and four
seperate plates are made.
A plate is made up of areas that are receptive to grease and areas that are receptive to water. The areas receptive to
grease hold onto the ink while the other areas attract water and repel the ink.
These plates are then put on to a press. From the ink fountains, the press pulls in the ink and puts it onto the plate.
The press applies great pressure to the plate and the ink imprints the image from the plate onto a rubber blanket.
The image is then pressed onto the paper off the blanket to make a print.
When these four colors are printed onto each other the image comes back together and looks the way it did in in the
inital PDF.
All this happens really fast and many impressions can be made from one set of plates. It is a very efficient process
and lends itself very well to long runs over a long period of time

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