Printing Knowledge

Name Thickness/mm Name Thickness/mm
80gsm art paper 0.065 105gsm matt coated paper 0.09
105gsm art paper 0.085 128gsm matt coated paper 0.12
128gsm art paper 0.105 157gsm matt coated paper 0.16
157gsm art paper 0.135 200gsm matt coated paper 0.19
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Self-adhesive labels are one of the fastest growing segments of the printing industry. Food, beverage, cosmetics, retail, and logistics businesses all depend on them, and demand keeps rising. At the same time, label work is technically demanding. A s…

In flexographic printing, the anilox roller plays two roles at once. It transfers ink to the printing plate, and it meters the exact amount of ink that reaches the plate. Printers often call it the heart of the flexo press, because the final result d…

You send a file to the printer expecting rich, saturated color, and the finished job comes back flat and washed out. The press usually takes the blame, but the real cause often sits one step earlier in prepress. Plate-making errors quietly change dot…

When you order offset printing, the ink on the press is the last and often most overlooked variable that determines how your finished piece looks. The same file can come off the press looking vivid and crisp, or dull, patchy, and prone to smudging, a…

From the day of the clearance of the payment and the confirmation of the proof of the artwork.
*Please note, it does not start from when you first contact us, we need a short amount of time to prepare your order before printing and we require your co…

For books, folds, paper handbags, posters, flyers, folders, and cards, a bleed of 3mm is recommended, whereas for boxes, a bleed of 5mm is advisable.…

If you are using Windows, just follow the following steps:
Select your artworks or folder and then right click. Highlight "Send To." Click on "Compressed (zipped) Folder." A compressed folder will be created containing the same name as the file you c…

Your artwork should be created at 300 dpi (dots per inch) or higher. If your artwork is at a lower resolution than this, the printing quality will be affected. Please note, your photo or design must meet the required file size, image dimensions, reso…

Vector artwork employs a series of 'points' to define a shape, akin to a graph in mathematics. This ensures that any vector shape, at any resolution, should always print sharply. On the other hand, bitmap artwork is composed of blocks (pixels) that r…

- The resolution of your artworks should at least be 300dpi (300 pixels per INCH or 118 pixels per CM) to create high quality printing matters. If your image contains texts, we suggest you use higher resolution artwork up to 600dpi. - Bleed: 3mm for …

The best file format to submit your artwork in is Adobe Acrobat - pdf Please ensure you have followed these steps prior to sending the artwork : 1). Convert all text to outlines / paths (the exact terminology depends on your software). Please include…

All products are printed by Heidelberg or Mitsubishi printing machines in full color. The full color process is an industry standard whose results can be seen at any news or magazine stand. The end result is high quality printing which can make your …

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Quality and rather heavy two-side coated printing paper with smooth surface. The reproduction of fine screen single- and multicolor pictures ("art on paper") requires a paper that has an even, well closed surface and a uniform ink absorption.…

Fold the impression (cut or uncut) into several folds according to page number and sequence. The fold with multi-pages is called a signature of book-block. After collocating the folded signatures into volumes by order and combine them, it is called s…

Perfect Binding Process Sewn Binding Process Perfect binding is often used, and gives a result similar to paperback books. National Geographic is one example of this type. Paperback or soft cover books are also normally bound using perfect binding. T…

Color printing typically uses ink of four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black). When CMY "primaries" are combined at full strength, the resulting "secondary" mixtures are red, green, and blue. Mixing all three theoretically results in black…

Hardcover Book is a is a book bound with rigid protective covers , such as cardboard covered with cloth, heavy paper, or leather,  Hardcover books are much more durable than paperbacks, which have flexible, easily damaged paper covers and glued spin…

a. Speedy development of digital processing and internet information exchange
All-digital workflows are on their way. They will soon replace the traditional analogue imaging and desktop processing system. With all-digital workflows, you would experie…