understanding print PROCESSES 2

GRAVURE PRINTING

• used for high volume prints

• image is engraved into a printing cylinder

• prints newspapers & publications

• prints candy wrappers

Flexography

• Digitally prints low quantities

• Relief Printing

• Much like a rubber stamp

• Prints candy wrappers and labels.

WHICH 2 PROCESSES IS FOR VERY HIGH PRINT QUANTITIES?

• Digital

• Wide Format

• Gravure / Intaglio

• Flexography

Offset Lithography uses the principle of...?

• oil and water do not mix

• ink and oil do not mix

• oil and paper do not mix

• water and chemistry do not mix

Offset printing press are typically....

• old

• electronic

• sheet fed systems

• web fed systems

Offset printing transfers ink to a plate and then to a ........?

• Rubber blanket

• impression cylinder

• paper

• substrate

What are the four ink UNITS on a sheetfed 4 color offset press?

• Red, Green, Blue

• Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Blue

• Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black

• Primary colors

Offset Printing is best for printing high volume print runs of what products?

• Newspapers

• Business Cards

• Brochures

• Postcards

Digital Color Copiers are best used for printing low run quantities of what products?

• Packaging

• Business Cards

• Brochures

• Post cards

Dry Based TONERS colors in a digital color copier

• Red, green, blue

• primary colors

• black and blue

• CMYK, Process colors