PRINTING SYSTEMS
The main systems are characterised and identified by their particular printing plates.
Debossing
The process of creating recessed relief images and designs in paper and other materials. A debossed pattern is sunken into the surface of the material.
Blind Spot UV Coating
When the UV coating is applied directly to the paper without a printed color underneath.
Embossing
The processes of creating raised relief images and designs in paper and other materials.
Spot UV Coating
One of the most popular printing techniques. Environmentally friendly. Fast drying speed.
Hot Foil Stamping
The process of using heat and pressure to apply metallic foil or holograms to materials such as light papers, carton board, laminated board, plastics and corrugated board.
Die-Cut
The process of using a die to shear webs of low-strength materials, such as rubber, fiber, foil, cloth, paper, corrugated fiberboard, paperboard, plastics, pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes, foam and sheet metal.
Lithography
It is an old process used today only for printing artwork. The image is directly transferred from the plate to the paper.
Screen Printing
The process where ink is transferred through a surface.
Tampography
The process allows printing on objects with various forms and with rigid surfaces and not completely flat.
Offset Printing
The impression is made indirectly with a cylinder cover with soft rubber to receive and impress the image from the plate onto the paper.
Flexography
This process uses a relief plate made of a soft material allowing direct impression on a wide range of paper.