presswork
一.Regular paper and its feature:
1. Copperplate printing paper: It is the most common-used paper. Having very good surface luster, it is suitable for all kinds of color effect.
2. Non-luminous copperplate printing paper: It is a kind of usual paper. Having no luster on its surface, it is suitable for presswork of many characters or much blankness with a soft visual effect. Large block of grounding shall be avoided. Otherwise it will lose it nonluminous effect. Moreover, it will not easy to dry when printed.
3. One-sided copperplate printing paper: It is a kind of paperboard. One side of the paper has the quality of copperplate printing paper and is fit to display color. The other side is like offset printing paper, which is good for special color and character printing. The paper is suitable to print packing box, POP and all sorts of card.
4. Offset printing paper: As it is nonluminous it is fit to print characters, pictures of one color or special color. Except for special need, it is not suitable for color photo printing. Because the color and layer differ from copperplate printing paper, the color will be gloomy without luster.
5. Special paper: It can also be called as art paper, having various kinds to meet different design requirement. But we must notice that color and layer will be affected when printing 4-color picture on special paper. It would be better to choose pictures with vivid colors of a lively tone. Nevertheless, large block of grounding shall be avoided for this will not only lose the texture effect of special paper but also be difficult to dry.

二.Usual specification and size of printing:

  Standard-sized sheet Finished Product of folio Finished Product of quarto Finished Product of octavo Finished Product of 16-mo sheet Finished Product of 32-mo sheet
Large width 889x1194 860x580 420x580 420x285 210x285 210x140
Standard width 787x1092 760x520 370x520 370x260 185x260 185x130
1. Although the size of international standard A4 paper is 210x297, we usually will design it to be 210x285 except that client has special requirement. This is because If one wants to cut sheets of 210x297, that will only be 12K. And this will be a waste and add more cost.
2. When we design presswork of irregular size, we will surely take the size of sheet and way of cutting into consideration to avoid wasting.
3. Since specifications of all kinds of special paper are different, we will surely take the size of sheet and way of cutting into consideration when using. Because improper way of cutting will result in wasting. The best method is to contact the sheet dealer in advance to confirm the specifications.

三.Black imprinting:

Black imprinting on any color will still be black. In the making process, it is not necessary for us to reverse grounding into white if there is grounding color under the black character or line. The grounding will not affect blackness. On the contrary, if we reverse, there will be possible registering errors in printing pressing. Once such error happens, it will affect the effect.

四.Standard color:

Presently, a lot of large enterprises have their standardized CI with their own standard color. We often meet with such requirement of standard color in designing presswork. If client have very exigent requirement on standard color and it is difficult to realize accurately by 4-color color match, we will mostly consider printing by special color. Though this may add some cost, the final effect is unparalleled compared with that of 4-color printing.
五.Format making when reprinting:
In the process of making and designing, sometime the situation of the presswork is to reprint. It would be better that if client could do the format making according to their reprinting requirements. In this way, printing plant will not have to reformat it. It may take some time of client. However, one the one hand, the presswork can be put on printing equipment to work earlier as there is no need to reformat it. On the other hand, this can also avoid possible registering errors coursed by reformatting.
Please do not hesitate to consult with us … if you have other technical questions concerning printing.,E-mail:JinLongHua@Bsbsc.Com

 



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