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 _____.