Mass printing was a pretty cool unit. We got to learn about the the different types of printing. Then we even got to come up with our own designs and print them onto a teacher.
Mass Printing: The process of creating multiple copies with speed and accuracyAdditive Color:
1.Cyan
2.Magenta Stencil: Printing from an open surface
3.Yellow
Stencil: Printing from an open surface
AKA:Screen printing, Silk writing, silk screening
Inventors: Chinese
Ink: Plastisol: Solvent based, Water based
Uses: Clothing, pencils, pens, productsLetterpress: Printing from a raised surface
AKA: Relief Printing
Inventor: Japanese used wood blocks-Johann Gutenburg invented the first movable metal type with a bible
Uses: less then 5% of market, invitations
Intalgio: Printing from a lower surface
AKA: Gravure
Inventor: Thomas Bell 1794
1. Impression Cylinder AKA: Offset Printing
2.Doctor blade Inventor: Alois Senefelder 1798
3. Ink fountain
Lithography:Printing from a flat surface
AKA: Offset Printing
Inventor: Alois Senefelder 1798
Main Cylinders:
1. Plate
2. Blanket
3. Impression
Uses: Books, magazines, 90% of market
Advantages: works on principle that oil and water don’t mix
1.Cyan
2.Magenta Stencil: Printing from an open surface
3.Yellow
Stencil: Printing from an open surface
AKA:Screen printing, Silk writing, silk screening
Inventors: Chinese
Ink: Plastisol: Solvent based, Water based
Uses: Clothing, pencils, pens, productsLetterpress: Printing from a raised surface
AKA: Relief Printing
Inventor: Japanese used wood blocks-Johann Gutenburg invented the first movable metal type with a bible
Uses: less then 5% of market, invitations
Intalgio: Printing from a lower surface
AKA: Gravure
Inventor: Thomas Bell 1794
1. Impression Cylinder AKA: Offset Printing
2.Doctor blade Inventor: Alois Senefelder 1798
3. Ink fountain
Lithography:Printing from a flat surface
AKA: Offset Printing
Inventor: Alois Senefelder 1798
Main Cylinders:
1. Plate
2. Blanket
3. Impression
Uses: Books, magazines, 90% of market
Advantages: works on principle that oil and water don’t mix