Output Printing Techniques Practice

This is a technique based on ink powder and is used in laser printers, photocopiers, and digital printing presses.

• Offset

• Xerography

• Onset

• Flexography

• Gravure

This technique uses a rubber or plastic printing surface and a direct printing technique, in which the printing

surface transfers the ink directly to the print surface.

• Offset

• Xerography

• Onset

• Flexography

• Gravure

The basic principle of this technique is that there are printing and nonprinting surfaces on a printing plate. The plate cylinder does not receive ink and does not touch the substrate directly.

• Offset

• Xerography

• Onset

• Flexography

• Gravure

With this technique the printing areas are engraved or etched on the cylinder.

• Offset

• Xerography

• Onset

• Flexography

• Gravure

This technique is when ink is pressed through the cloth with a doctor blade and transferred to the material that is

being printed.

• Inkjet

• Letterpress

• Sublimation

• Screen Printing

This is based on a technique that changes a solid to a gas to transfer from a plastic film or metal foil to the substrate.

• Inkjet

• Letterpress

• Sublimation

• Screen Printing

This technique involves small drops of ink sprayed onto a paper surface.

• Inkjet

• Letterpress

• Sublimation

• Screen Printing

This technique is based on the image carrier having printing areas separated from nonprinting areas by a difference

in elevation, just like a stamp.

• Inkjet

• Letterpress

• Sublimation

• Screen Printing

Describes a printing system that includes desktop publishing software, electronic prepress workstations and a new type of press without the use of removable plates.

• Substrate

• Onset

• Computer-to-plate

• Computer-to-press

Describes a system in which the use of desktop publishing software, electronic prepress workstations and platesetters allows the imaging of metal plates for any format of press.

• Substrate

• Onset

• Computer-to-plate

• Computer-to-press