What is digital printing?

What is digital printing? Digital printing is the process of printing digital-based images directly onto a variety of media substrates. There is no need for a printing plate, unlike with offset printing. Digital files such as PDFs or desktop publishing files can be sent directly to the digital printing press to...

What does perforation mean in printing?

What does perforation mean in printing? Perforation refers to a print finishing process during which tiny holes are punched into a printed item such as a ticket or voucher. Adding this line of tiny holes is often done to achieve one of two things: It makes it easy to tear along the line and remove part of the prin...

All about book paper

Paper gives print books their unique character. It may be so subtle, we don’t even give it thought, but with every turn of the page, paper influences what a book feels like in our hands. The feel of it under our fingers. Its weight, its color, and contrast against the ink. Even the sound it makes as we rush to th...

WHAT IS FSC® CERTIFIED PAPER?

FSC® certified paper is paper that has been harvested in a responsible manner. Although FSC certified paper often contains recycled paper, it does not have to contain it to be certified. The primary requirement for certification is being harvested and produced in a responsible manner. FSC is an acronym for...

What is a board book?

What Is a Vector Image?

A vector image is a scalable image made up of values rather than pixels. Most images found online are raster images. Raster images use square pixels (bits of color) to convey an image. Vector graphics convey color using scalable color polygons. Since vector images use dynamic color sections instead of static squa...

What are the differences between offset printing and digital printing?

What is Offset Printing? Offset printing technology uses plates, usually made from aluminum, which are used to transfer an image onto a rubber “blanket”, and then rolling that image onto a sheet of paper. It’s called offset because the ink is not transferred directly onto the paper. Because offset presses run ...

Book Printing: What are the Advantages of Spiral Binding?

Book Printing: What are the Advantages of Spiral Binding? Spiral Binding, also known as Coil Binding, is a common method for joining the pages and cover of a bound document. It utilizes a durable plastic or metal coil that is inserted and twisted through small holes punched along the spinal edge of the book...

Coil binding

Coil binding, also known as spiral binding, is a commonly used book binding style for documents. This binding style is known by a number of names including spiral coil, color coil, colorcoil, ez-coil, plastic coil, spiral binding, plastikoil and coilbind. Usage: Documents bound with helical coil (usually called sp...

What is UV Coating (and Why Do You Need It)?

What is UV Coating (and Why Do You Need It)? UV coating is an excellent way to make your print marketing materials stand out: UV coating provides a brilliant glossy sheen to your business cards, postcards, flyers and other materials. Having your print marketing materials UV coated also provides a thick...

Prepress Training: A Check List for Preparing Press-Ready Images

Use this page as a prepress training tool to keep on your desk if you want to be confident that the images you place in a Quark XPress or InDesign document are high resolution and press-ready. All these checklists are based on best practice. Opinion is divided over what file types to use, so I just list the ty...

What‘s the Difference Between 4 Color Process Printing and Spot Color Printing?

There are two main printing processes you will need to know about: 4 color process (CMYK) printing and spot color printing printing. 4 Color Process Best practice: check, double check, triple check. Happy? Check again. Many mistakes are made when spot colors are mixed in with 4 color process (CMYK) color...

Press-Ready Image Tutorial: How and Why to Create High Resolution Images

When creating press-ready images and artwork, it‘s just as important to know why you are doing it as it is to know how. Understanding the reason for a doing something helps you understand how to do it better. This is very true for graphic design, and especially for image preparation. Most of the work laid out in ...

Which Color Mode Should Press-Ready Images be Converted to?

ll images created in Photoshop are saved in a color mode. There are different types of image that are used for different types of job, and each needs to be prepared correctly for its output in print. Here we‘ll focus on the Photoshop modes used for press purposes. They are, in order of appearance in the Photosho...

Paper Dimensions Used in Graphic Design

Official International ISO 216 (A) Paper Sizes (excluding USA and Canada) Most documents created in a graphic design environment conform to standard paper dimensions. It‘s handy to have these measurements to hand, so below are some of the commonest paper sizes used in the design and print industry, inclu...

How to Convert Text to Outlines

When using Adobe Illustrator how to (and when to) convert text to outlines for press-ready vector artwork is essential knowledge. Fonts can cause problems when sending artwork to press. If you‘ve used a typeface that your printing house doesn‘t have, the document will print incorrectly. This is why you‘ll find...

What‘s the offset printing?

Pre-press The design files received from clients is reviewed by our pre-press team within our in-house design studio to ensure that all jobs are delivered error-free and of a very high quality. The files are checked for any issues related to fonts, images, bleed, etc and corrections, if required are carried out. Th...

China color books printing manufacturer

Shenzhen Gold Sun Color Printing Factory is a China based book manufacturer, established in 2005. Being established for 15 years, it acquires 5,000 square meters garden workshop in Shenzhen with more than 250 professional employees. As one of the leading printing supplier in China, we offer a wide range of c...

TYPES OF PAPER

Writing Papers Typically, Writing papers are offered in a variety of whites and off-whites, with textures ranging from smooth to embossed. Our papers are made from high-grade bleached wood pulp for sulphite sheets or high-grade cotton fibers for the cotton sheets. Recycled sheets include high quality post consume...

Offset Printing-Book printing

Definition - What does Offset Printing mean? Offset printing is a printing technique that involves the transferring of an image from a metal plate to a rubber blanket or rollers before being printed on the receiving media, usually paper. In this method, the paper does not come in direct contact with the metal pla...