Printing process

①Pre-press refers to the work before printing, generally refers to photography, design or production, typesetting, filming, printing, etc.

②Printing refers to the work in the middle of printing and the process of printing the finished product.

③Post-printing refers to the post-printing work, generally refers to the post-processing of printed matter including laminating, laminating, cutting or die cutting, window pasting, box pasting, quality inspection, etc.

Printing elements

①Paper, there are many types of paper, generally divided into coated paper and non-coated paper. Coated paper generally refers to coated paper (gloss copper) and matte paper (matte copper, mostly used for color printing; non-coated paper generally refers to offset paper, newsprint, and mostly used for printing on letter paper, envelopes and newspapers.

②Color, general printed matter is embossed in four colors of yellow, magenta, cyan, and black. In addition, there are printing grades, methods to improve the grade of printed products, such as bronzing, embossing, sub-glue or photo-glue, spot color, partial UV Wait.

Print classification

①Classify by ultimate product

Office category refers to office-related printed materials such as letter paper, envelopes, and office forms.

Publicity category refers to a series of printed materials related to corporate publicity, such as posters, leaflets, product catalogs, etc.

Production category refers to large quantities of printed matter directly related to production products such as packaging boxes and self-adhesive labels.

② Classified by printing machine

Offset printing refers to the use of offset brushes (PS plates), which are mostly used for printing on four-color paper.

Gravure printing refers to the use of gravure (generally refers to copper plates, etc.), and is mostly used for plastic printing.

Flexographic printing refers to the use of flexible material plates (generally refers to resin-based plates, etc.), and is mostly used for self-adhesive printing.

Screen printing refers to screen printing, which can be printed on various materials.

③ Classified by material

Paper printing, the most commonly used printing.

Plastic printing is mostly used for packaging printing.

Special materials, printing refers to the printing of glass, metal, wood, etc.

Industry term:

P number refers to one side of 16-knot paper.

On-site, refers to full-page printing, 100% color filling

The number of grams is a measure of paper thickness.

Proofing, the process of making printed samples.

The process of producing film and outputting film films with electronic files.

Ream, a unit for measuring the quantity of paper (1 ream is equal to 500 sheets).

Color sample, the standard of the color to be printed.

Grip, the position reserved for cutting printed matter.

Spot colors refer to special colors other than the four colors (yellow, magenta, cyan, and black):

①Except for the seven colors of C, M, Y, K, C+M, C+Y, M+Y, there will be no dots when each of them is 100%. If there are no dots in other colors, spot colors will be used.

②When you see only one color among the dot colors, and it is not the color of C, M, Y, K itself, then it is the dot of the spot color band.

①Spot colors are generally used when there are few colors, and four primary colors are generally used for more than four colors to save costs.

②The advantage of spot color is that it does not need to be registered, which effectively prevents color difference and anti-printing.

③Spot colors can make printed matter appear more high-end.

④Promotional products usually use four primary colors and sometimes add a spot color, and the product colors will have a combination of 4+1 or 4+2.

⑤Some signs, large color blocks and background colors sometimes use spot colors.

⑥Spot colors are usually used for stickers and wrapping paper.

⑦The printing effect of spot color is usually flat, and the printing effect of four primary colors is often uneven, with rich color variations.