Four Color Printer

Four color printing on a budget: get value when choosing a four color printer

Posted in Four Color Printer, Four Color Printing, Printing Techniques on May 4th, 2009 by Ken – Be the first to comment

Value when choosing a four color printer for four color printing

As printing technology advances at warp speed, the cost of high-quality solid ink, inkjet, laser, and LED 4 color printers is rapidly declining. Now is the right time to seek out a printer that has the color quality, paper handling capabilities, speed, and ease of use four your print project needs. If you haven’t looked in awhile, you will be shocked to find that high-quality printers are not only affordable, but that buying a new printer will actually save you money in the short run, help you to grow your business and improve your bottom line. read more »

When picking a four color printer solution for four color printing, ease of use is paramount

Posted in Four Color Printer, Printing Techniques on May 1st, 2009 by Ken – Be the first to comment

Four color printing, four color printer, computers, and new technology are generally quite complicated. The average graphic artist or designers shouldn’t have to be an expert with learning technology to complete a project! It takes talent and dedication on the vendor’s part to create products that are simple to use and to set up. When deciding on printers, you should find vendors that make your life easier by helping you install and manage the 4 color printer and keep you focused and working on your projects. By incorporating powerful software with the printers, a vendor can achieve this directive and deliver useful printing solutions to their clients. read more »

Four color printing from your home studio - paper handling

Posted in Four Color Printer, Printing Techniques on April 26th, 2009 by Ken – Be the first to comment

When developing a four color printing project, it helps to have what is known as a “proof” - an example of the final product with which to make decisions and gauge how to proceed.

Graphic design studios are always looking for a way to create proofs that are representative of the final product, to assist graphic design studios and their clients envision the final project, it’s pretty important to print samples on the same size and type of paper that the final project will be printed on.

The correct four color printer should have the capability to read more »

Single pass four color printing

Posted in Four Color Printer, Printing Techniques on April 26th, 2009 by Ken – Be the first to comment

Four Color Printer Speed
In the current fast-paced graphic printing situations, quick printing turnaround and high quality accurate color reproduction are mandatory. making the investment in the right network four color printer is a necessary method to ensure that technology does not hinder your process. Network four color printers that are currently on the market are capable of printing up to an very impressive 30 pages per minute in color. Four color print speed has increased in recent years because of the introduction of single-pass printing technologies. read more »

Why you need a good four color printer in your design studio

Posted in Four Color Printer, Printing Techniques on April 25th, 2009 by Ken – Be the first to comment

You need a good four color printer four your studio if you are a design professional. Four Color printing capability is an obvious need for a professional designer. Determining what printer to buy is a complicated thing to do. To make things less difficult, make certain you consider this when investing in a network color printer: print quality, speed, paper handling, ease of use, and value. This post will focus on print quality. read more »

Thermography Printing Process

Posted in Four Color Printer, Printing Techniques on April 16th, 2009 by Ken – Be the first to comment

The Thermographic Printing process is a technique that relies on high heat to print letters or images on a sheet of specially treated paper. It is additionally a post print process that is done inline with the printing. read more »

Engraving Printing Process

Posted in Four Color Printer, Printing Techniques on April 16th, 2009 by Ken – Be the first to comment

Engraving is one of the oldest printing techniques known to man. Engraving produces among the sharpest, sweetest, fine, and crisp imagery compared to other types of gravure printing. Basically a substrate is pushed against a recessed plate. The substrate or paper is moistened. Then the pressure of the cylinder pushes the ink from an indented area onto the paper’s surface. Because of the application of pressure, the area being imprinted on is raised which gives it an engraved appearance. read more »

Letterpress Printing Process

Posted in Four Color Printer, Printing Techniques on April 3rd, 2009 by Ken – Be the first to comment

Letterpress Printing technique is among the oldest printing techniques known to man, having been used since the thirteenth century. It was introduced by Johann Guttenberg. Letterpress is created from individually-cast, movable type letters that are reusable. read more »

Flexography Printing Process

Posted in Four Color Printer, Printing Techniques on April 3rd, 2009 by Ken – Be the first to comment

Flexography printing is a widely-used printing technique. One of Flexography’s major uses is to print packaging materials. The flexography printing technique is used to print on a variety of materials used for packaging including corrugated cardboard boxes, folding cartons, multi-wall sacks, paper bags, plastic bags and more. read more »

Embossing Printing Process

Posted in Four Color Printer, Printing Techniques on April 3rd, 2009 by Ken – Be the first to comment

The “Embossed Printing Process” is also known as “Embossing”, “Blind Printing” or as “Relief Printing”. Embossing printing technique transfers text and images as a “relief” perhaps better described as an “impression” onto various substrates. A “substrate” is a fancy term for any material that is acted upon. In this case substrates include paper, cardboard, or types of metal foils. The front of the print displays the image as a relief. The embossing itself is on the back side. read more »