GPS 1500: Final Exam Review

Relief, Intaglio, Screen, Lithography, Electrostatic

5 Print Processes

Letterpress

Relief Nickname

Gravure

Intaglio Nickname

Seriography

Screen Nickname

Offset

Lithography Nickname

Digital

Electrostatic Nickname

Flexo - wood, rubber

Relief Image Carrier/Process

Engraved Cylinder

Intaglio Image Carrier/Process

Stencil

Screen Image Carrier/Process

Flat H2O - Ink, Paper, Metal

Lithography Image Carrier/Process

Positively Charged

Electrostatic Image Carrier/Process

Gutenburg

Relief Origin

Karl Klif

Intaglio Origin

The Orient

Screen Origin

Alois Senefelder

Lithography Origin

Chester Carlson

Electrostatic Origin

Food Packaging

Relief Uses

Over A Million Copies

Intaglio Uses

T-shirts, books, Menus

Screen Uses

Fine Art

Lithography Uses

Just in Time, Printing Copies

Electrostatic Uses

12 Points

1 Pica =

1 Inch

6 Picas =

1 Inch

12 Points =

Page

Inches are for _____ dimensions.

Line

Picas are for _____ length.

Font

Points are for _____ size.

Emulsion, Base, Anti-Halation Dye

FILM 3 parts

Silver Halides

Emulsion

Paper, Plastic, Glass

Base

Variable Data Printing

VDP

Line Copy

lines or dots

Continuous Tone Copy

variety of tones (no dots)

Halftone Screen

LPI 60-72, LPI-newspaper 100-375, IPI mags

Tint Screen

Denoted by percentages 101-501 / 90%

Computer to Plate

Plates in lab are CTP =

Gripper Margin

XXX

Plate Cylinder, Blanket Cylinder, Impression Cylinder

3 Cylinders on Offset

Plate Cylinder

right reading

Blanket Cylinder

wrong reading

Impression Cylinder

back of paper - steel

Water and Ink Don't Mix

Principle of Offset

Acid

0

Neutral

7

Base

14

0, 7, 14

pH Scale

Duplicators, Presses

2 kinds of offset presses

Duplicators

Machines (3x5 up to 11x17)

Presses

(11x17 or larger)

Feeding, Registration, Printing, Delivery

System approach to all Presses

Successive Gap, Stream Fed (Overlap)

2 kinds of Offset

Substrate

any base material that receives an image.

Pigments, Vehicle, Additives

Ink = _____ dispersed in a _____ with _____.