A really interesting approach to printing, designed and printed to be folded into a design, 4 colour printing.

Benwells

Some samples that I received in the post yesterday from Benwells printers. Some great examples of embossing, foil blocking and die cutting.

Mexian screen printing

Screen printing and hand-rendered typography on a mass scale

a great video about typesetting, really eye opening.

A really nice publication, great typefaces for each city, Lithograph printed.

Ougd201 - Design for print

An exhibition programme for the crafts council. They applied a blind - deboss and a blind emboss on the one - sided high gloss stock to compliment the dot - matrix typeface

Ougd201 - Design for print

Found these beautiful foil blocked invitations from We Made this Ltd, a really nice combination of a strong pink n a metallic red.

Paradise tropicals

If i do choose to design bags to package my foods there is still the packaging that displays them that needs to be thought about. Usually fruits and vegetable are packaged in open topped boxes, very plain and bland. However this design by Edminson Martin shows that these boxes can be vibrant and exciting.

The crate itself is printed through a 'flexo folder gluer' which is a flexographic process that both prints, creases and glues the box into its final form.

how printing works?

These are some videos that I found and some that were suggested by Lorenzo.

gravure

Gravure image areas consist of cells or wells engraved into a copper cylinder and the unetched surface of the cylinder represents the non-printing areas. The image cylinder rotates in a bath of ink. The excess is wiped off the surface by a flexible steel doctor blade. The ink remaining in the thousands of recessed cells forms the image by direct transfer to the paper as it passes between the plate cylinder and the impression cylinder. Gravure printing produces excellent reproductions of pictures, but slightly scruffy type.

Lithography

Modern offset lithography relies on supple aluminium, polyester, mylar or paper plates to work with the photographic process. The imaging process begins when the rough surfaced plate is covered in a photosensitive emulsion, a negative image is then placed in contact with the plate and exposed to ultra-violet light which develops so that the emulsion reveals the postive of the negative image. Another technique includes the use of a platesetter which uses lasers to transfer the image directly from a computer.

Offset

Offset printing is a technique where a plate transfers an inked image to a rubber sheet then to the printing surface. This method is most commonly used to print books and and newspapers.

Pantone Plus series

A really insightful video into the new pantone plus series, I especially like the 28 colour printer that they use to print the pantone chip books, the only one of its kind in the world.