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PM2 PRINTING
Thermal lamination Films bond two sides or more with heat sensitive film, using heat and pressure alongside the adhesive film will combine the layers. This is a versatile process that can be used on a combination of materials, subsequently leaving a product with a high quality fini...
Friday, April 16, 2021
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Lamination
Lamination is the post press process which gives gloss or matte finish to the end product, the best for book covers, brochures, catalogues etc. It not only adds elegance to look and feel of product, but also protects it from dust, scratches, and moisture. The lamination is a must on Table Menu Cards to protect it from spillage of water etc. Increase its strength and durability, and to add sheen and vibrancy to its ink colors. Lamination makes printed documents look more finished and professiona...
Monday, April 7, 2014
IPS vs. LPS Screen
IPS ((In-Plane Switching technology): was originally developed by Hitachi and had been in use from the mind nineties. Earlier to this twisted nematic (TN) technology was used to make panels for monitors. Hitachi introduced the IPS technology for liquid crystal display (LCD) panels. This technology was used to overcome limitations faced by TN matrices, which included slow response, small viewing angles and low quality colour reproduction. The new technology of In-Plane Switching (IPS) introduced arrangement and switching of the molecules of the liquid crystal (LC) layer between the glass substrates in a plane parallel to these glass plates. This technology made a lot improvement in the colours schemes and the resolution in the technology used in twisted nematic (TN) monitors. It provided a...
Sunday, March 9, 2014
CONVENTIONAL PRINTING vs. STOCHASTIC PRINTING
Advantages of stochastic printing versus conventional printing:
Continuous tone photographic reproduction
Produces a larger CMYK color gamut on press
Renders greater detail
Eliminates moire patterns
Reduces ink consumption by as much as 10% – notice the ‘pooling’ of ink in conventional dot
Produces smoother gradients
More consistency in color throughout pressrun
Faster ink drying
Conventional screening (150 lpi, 175 lpi, 200 lpi) refers to AM screens, or amplitude modulation. This refers to halftone dots that are fixed on a grid, angled in 30 degree increments (except yellow: 15 degrees) and grow in size based on tonal value.
LPI = lines...
Stochastic Printing
Stochastic printing, also called frequency modulation (FM) screening, uses small (10, 20 or 25 Micron), same size dots in a random pattern and varies the density of the dot to create an image that is closer to continuous tone. In the reproduction of an image, we scan a continuous tone original photograph. The scan results in light striking a photosensitive device which issues a number that digitally represents the tonality of the original image. Printing a halftone image on paper requires that this number be passed to a computer, which stores a grid of numbers in a rectangular matrix representing the original image in digital form. To convert...
