| Together with the advancement of technology, new | | | | through in offset printing. |
| ways of printing have also come up. The digital | | | | 1. You would first have to find the website of your |
| technology has been presenting innovative ways to go | | | | desired printing company and once you have found |
| around printing just about any print job you could | | | | one, you would upload your print job there. |
| possibly think of. However, amidst these developments, | | | | 2. The prepress or graphic designers of the companies |
| a lot of printing companies still choose to work with the | | | | would then check and make necessary adjustments |
| conventional way of offset printing. | | | | to your work and send it back to you for your |
| Compared to digital printing, offset printers consume | | | | approval. |
| more time but this is justified with the quality of the | | | | 3. After you have approved the final work, you would |
| prints you would get from it. This process of printing is | | | | then be asked to upload your print job through the |
| usually used in high volume print jobs as its quality of | | | | website wherein the prepress would then pass your |
| printing is known to be unquestionable even though it | | | | print jobs to the gang file. This is the process wherein |
| prints thousands of print jobs already. | | | | the print jobs are managed. |
| Offset Printing | | | | 4. Right after this, your print orders would then go |
| The two most common offset printer machines that | | | | through the image setter which transfers the image of |
| companies use today is the Komori Printer and the | | | | your prints to the plate setter. |
| Mitsubishi Printer. This process of printing could also be | | | | 5. Once the plates are produced, they will them be |
| called 4 color press with coating wherein you could | | | | loaded to the offset printer which does all the printing |
| choose your protective coating to be gloss or matte | | | | work. |
| finish. Coating is default when it comes to this printing | | | | 6. As soon as your prints are done, they would then |
| technique however, you could ask your prints to be | | | | go to the cutting and folding machine which obviously |
| customized and not to be applied with the coating. The | | | | cuts and folds your prints the way you want it to be. |
| only print jobs does not get coated usually are your | | | | 7. Lastly, after all the printing, folding and cutting is done, |
| envelopes and letterheads because these are prints | | | | the printing company could then ship or mail your print |
| you are supposed to write on and having the coating | | | | jobs to you. |
| would not allow you to do that. | | | | Advantages |
| It is called offset printing because basically, what | | | | One of the most popular advantages offset printing |
| happens is that the plates never touch your printing | | | | gives you is its affordability. This is basically because |
| surface. | | | | offset printers are capable of gang running. When you |
| Order Flow | | | | say gang run, it would mean being able to do several |
| You must know how the flow of your prints would go | | | | print jobs all in just one go. Through this, the printing |
| if ever you would ask your print jobs to be done | | | | company could maximize the materials they use to |
| through offset printing because through this, you could | | | | minimize the print costs which they in turn pass to their |
| closely guide how the printing goes. The following | | | | customers by giving them cheaper printing prices. |
| would be the flow your print jobs would have to go | | | | |