Letterpress machines were used to print each and every item like, business cards, office stationery, invitation cards, poster and so many items during nineteenth century, this machines are no more in use these days.
Of course, some printers are using these machines for multiple numbering and creasing also. Some printers are using for embossing process, because the machine’s technology is as per its name ‘letterpress’, the embossing/debossing process requires to press the paper/card.
To print on the letterpress machine, printer has to purchase so many TYPE/FONTS of metal cast in variouse sizes also. And, the printing press owner has to investment continuously and also prepare a special space for the safe storage.
From the invention of the printing technology by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid of 15th century, letterpress was using for normal text printing and it was widely using for books and other poducts since the second half of the 20th century. Invention of offset printing machines with the high quality and speed, becoming a choice of the 21st century.
This technique used a mesh to transfer ink onto a substrate. Screen Printing invented in China during AD 221 and used to transferring designs onto fabrics. Japanese began using simple stenciling techniques as a way to create imagery. As per the durable, cost-efficient, versatile and high quality, the screen printing was become popular those days.
In 1907, by Samuel Simon an Englishman, was patented the screen printing process. And the Europe was introduced this process in 18th century. Availability and affordability of silk mesh was converting the commercial use of this process to make it easier.
As per the manual and low speed of the printing, America and Europe countries were not interested in commercial use of this process. However Indians are interested in this method, because of easy and in big number of availability of man-power and low-investment, Indians are adopt this process as a small-home-based business to print the small size paper and other materials.
Day-by-day, as per the growing the demand by the small printers for the machines with high-speed in this process, so many companies are being interested to develop and started manufacturing of the screen printing machines.
One type of computer peripheral, it is mostly used in the home / small offices as a table-top printer. However some commercial printing companies use industrial inkjet printers to produce high-quality brochures, flyers and other required stationeries. Inkjet printers are print the copy with resolution of 300 DPI (Dots Per Inch). The printer’s head has several tiny nozzles which are identify as jets.
As per the name, inkjet printer, uses ink to print text, graphics and images onto various types of papers. Canon, Hewlett-Packard (HP), and Lexmark are the well-known manufacturers of the durable Inkjet Printers. The tiny holes of the printer’s head drop the microscopic droplets of ink onto the paper in the printer with a regular speed. Inkjet machines use a liquid ink produced either by either a coloured dye or a liquid that contains solid pigments in suspension.
The inkjet printers are mostly available in the range of Rs 4,500 to 7,500 as per the cost and it’s features. Some models of inkjet printers are available with the scanner itself, that’s why it will be a cost around Rs 12,000 at present.
Laser Printer first inventor was Xerox PARC by Gary Starkweather and released in 1971 which utilize laser technology to print images on the paper.
An electrostatic digital printing process using laser technology is called Laser Printing. Laser printers produces high-quality text and graphics and everag quality of photographs by repeatedly passing a laser beam back and forth over a negatively charged cylender called a ‘drum’ to define a differentially-charged image.
Despite higher expense of the toner and basic costs, laser printers are more economical, producing printed at a significantly lower cost per copy. Laser printers are more efficient, printing pages more quickly than comparable inkjet printers perform.
The important features of laser printers are their speed, resolution, printer language, and paper handling. Laser printers are very quiet; so many users regard the lack of noise as important buying criteria for office use.
Higher buying cost, Costly color cartridges, Expensive maintenance and Toner is dangerous to human are the disadvantages of the laser printer.
Digital based images, in the file formats like JPG, PDF, TIFF, and others can be printed on variety of media substrates. Above type of files or desk top publishing files can be sent directly to the digital printing press to print on paper, canvas, synthetics, cards, fabric, photo paper and other substrates.
The file formats and images are captured from pixels and digitalized image is used to control the deposition of ink, toner and exposure, to replicate the image, which we have to print.
Digital printing uses electronic files in print production directly, Flyers and brochures can be digitally printed en masse and in some special case digital printing is used to make copies of photographs also.
Simple process, low cost, less time to matching the color, advisable for small volume production, high added value and environment friendly are the valuable benefits of the digital printing.
KONIKA, XEROX and CANON are the well-known manufacturers for the professional digital printers world wide.
Offset printing is a widely used printing technique in the commercial printing. It is also known as an offset lithography, or litho-offset. In this technique the inked image on a printing plate is printed on a rubber blanket (cylinder) and the transferred (offset) to paper or other material.
The process was discovered by an American printer, Ira W. Rubel, accidentally in the year 1904. And then prepared a press to exploit it.The great flexibility of the rubber cylinder, permitting to print on wood, metal, cloth, and paper.
HEIDELBERG, AutoPrint, Komori, HMT, Multilith, AB Dick, Dominant are the well-known printing machinery brands.
Leading Offset machine manufacturers :
International Indian
Heidelberg (Germany) HMT
Komori (Japan) Manugraph
Mitsubishi (Japan) Orient
Ryobi (Japan) Optima
Fuji (Japan) Autoprint
AB Dick (US)
A rotary relief printing method using rubber or plastic plates (stereo) and fluid inks and dyes for printing on fabric and impervious materials such as plastics, as well as on paper. To print using the flexographic machine, printer has to create a mirror positive of required graphic/image as a 3D relief in a rubber polymer material. Process to preparing plates can be analog or digital platemaking. The image areas are raised above the non image areas on the rubber or polymer plate.
In the packaging industry, to print the simple design the flexography is only a fast and economic process. Both water and oil based inks can be used in this process. However, the water base inks are most preferably as its non-toxicity.
Commonly, we can understand the flexography process in a manner of modern version of letterpress method. It can be used to printing almost any type of substrate like corrugated sheets/rolls, cellophane, plastic, label stock, metallic film, fabrics and etc.
As per the name one can easily understand, this is the method to create an object into three dimensions.Preparing a computer created design with layer-by-layer is necessary to create a three-dimensional object. It is also known as additive manufacturing.
This process turns a solid object into thousands of tiny little slices, then makes it from the bottom-up, slice by slice. Those tiny layers stick together to form a solid object. Each layer of the solid object can be very complex, meaning 3D printers can create moving parts like wheels or any other mechanical/automobile part as a primary sample.3D printing is also used to produced architectural scale models.
Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM), sometimes called Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) is a 3D printing technology that uses a process called Material Extrusion. Material Extrusion devices are widely available and inexpensive, it is the type of 3D printing technology in the world.
In short, in the future, 3D printing machines could make their way into homes, businesses, disaster sites, and even outer space.
3D printing creates a lot less waste material for a single part plus materials used in 3D printing generally are recyclable. The main advantages of 3D printing are realized in its Speed, Flexibility, and Cost benefits.
Monoprice Voxel, Formlabs Form, Monoprice, Photon Mono X, FlashForge, LulzBolt, 3Doodler Create Plus, Toybox are the well-known 3D Printing machine manufacturers.
Foil printing is a technique which is an application of metallic paper (foil) on to a solid surface by applying a heated die on to the foil. Process makes it permanently stick to the surface on which the design required. Foil printing is being used for the invitations, packaging, custom business stationery, and promotional materials etc., and other plastic house-hold and office use items also. So, foil printing is the preferred method of printing in many industries.
Foil printing is being a choice of customers because of availability of its colour range. Although the most popular colours are clearly gold and silver foils, printer can give you many options of other colour and effects to choose from its range.
Foil printing converts your print projects into something more luxurious and prestigious. The technique is being associated with a superior quality that’s why majority of famous companies using foil printing.
Foil printing method creating something better to attract the reader’s attention. In the printing, there aren’t limitations when it comes to foil printing, so must consider adding foil printing to your make your print job more attractive.
Started our journey in 1986 with Screen Printing, and continue developing with innovations like four color CMYK Printing in this type of manual/hand print process. Also print on any material and surface like Metal, Plastic, Acrylic, Glass and much more. We were also famous for the stickers gumming those decades.
