Printing Techniques

From yesterday to today, we have seen many printing techniques. Each of them has many unique features. Printing techniques are always named according to the type of mold they are printed on. The most commonly used printing techniques; Typography (high printing), offset (flat printing), intaglio (pit printing) and screen printing (screen printing). This article contains information about each printing technique.

What are the Printing Techniques?

We can explain the printing techniques in more detail as follows:

Typography; It is a higher printing type than the plain parts that are on the high pressure system, which are used to print on the paper and do not print on the mold surface. It is the system that performs the printing of hand and machine typesetting, photopolymer and zinc clichés, which offer the possibility of use in the form of molds within the high printing system.
Letterset; In the printing system, photopolymer or metal clichés are used as the mold shape. This stands out as a high pressure system. In this system, the cliché is printed on rubber, and on rubber, paper is printed.
Flexo; In this type of printing, printing can be performed with many photopolymer flexo plates such as cyrel or rubber, APR.
Offset; In this type of printing, water works by pushing the ink all at once. The direct image of the film being shot from the original part is transmitted to a precision offset plate on the light and the printing plate is prepared in this way.
Intaglio; in this print, the mold is completely hollow. Paint always gets into the pits. Excess paint is peeled off with the squeegee. This is how printing is done.

What Advantages Do Printing Techniques Provide?

Printing techniques offer numerous advantages to many individuals and businesses. We can list them as follows:

Thanks to printing techniques, every job is completed in a much shorter time.
Things become more lively and higher quality.
Since there are different printing techniques, people can always get the type of printing they want. In this way, every job done is internalized.
Thanks to printing techniques, ink and many other tools are used much more actively. Thus, no material is wasted, no unnecessary wastage.

Printing Techniques