Printing Knowledge

You judge a printed book by its cover, but you feel its quality when you run a finger down the trimmed edges. A clean, square trim makes a paperback feel professional. A rough one, with chipped corners or fibers sticking out, cheapens the whole job. Most of these defects start at one machine: the...…

Ink fill-in, also called plugging or tinting, is a print defect that appears as blocked letters, merged halftone dots, and dirty-looking blank areas. Small type becomes hard to read, fine lines lose their shape, and images look muddy. For print buyers and designers, the result is a job that fails...…

When you order printing, the paper is usually quoted in grams per square meter (gsm), which describes the basis weight of a single sheet. Freight and cost, however, depend on how much an actual stack weighs. Ream weight, the weight of 500 sheets in a given size, is the figure that connects the tw...…

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 small prepress error, a wrong spot color, or a f...…

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 depends heavily on its condition. For buyers of...…

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 size and image density before a single sheet i...…

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, and much of that difference comes down to the pr...…

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 confirmation and payment before we commence.…

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 compressed. It will be represented by a zipper icon. If you are using other operation systems, please…

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, resolution, and file format before uploading it to our website.…

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 represent a shape. Consequently, when you zoom in, you begin to perceive blocks of colors, and the ar…

- 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 books, folds, paper handbags, posters, flyers, folders and cards, 5mm for boxes. - Before creating P…

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 the fonts when you submit the artwork if you haven't managed to convert the text. 2). Ensure all im…

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 images happen.…

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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 saddle stitching.
Impression→folding→collating→wrappering→saddle stitching→cutting Saddle stitch…

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. They usually consist of various sections with a cover made from heavier paper, glued together at the …

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, but imperfect ink formulations do not give true black, which is why the additional K component is …