Letterpress Printing Process
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.
It is additionally known as the “Typographic Printing Technique”. It is a commercial printing technique, that produces many copies of an image or text content by the repeated direct impression of an raised surface that has been inked, against a continuous roll of paper or set of sheets.
Letterpress Printing Process
The letterpress printing process prints images using the “relief”, which means raised surface, type printing plates. The printing areas of imagery or text is raised higher than the non-printing areas. Ink is applied to rollers, which applies it onto an ink-bed where fresh film is grabbed for the next sheet of paper. A sheet of paper is speedily pressed onto metal type which is swung back then removed. This is followed by the integration of a new sheet or roll of paper, and the process repeats itself.
The different kinds Letterpress Printing Machines
- Flat bed cylinder Machines
- Rotary letterpress printing machines
The different Applications of Letterpress Printing Technique
Letter Press printing is used in commercial printing operation including specialties such as die-cutting, stamping imprinting, numbering and more. It is commonly used to fabricate high-quality self adhesive labels in a short time. Other uses of this type of printing are:
- Business Cards and Corporate Letterheads
- Playbills and Posters
- Proofs
- Billheads
- Forms
- Embossing
- Hot-leaf Stamping
Four Color Printer
