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You’ve finally bought that art print you’ve been eyeing and are looking forward to showing it off to your visitors and friends, but before you start hanging it on the wall, you might want to spend a minute or two to consider how these prints were made. That piece of art that you bought is certainly not the original. It is a reproduced print made from the original art work. Art prints are created using different printing processes, and you may have come across these different terms as you were making enquiries and shopping for your print. Before making your purchase, it would be helpful to know the printing process by which your art print was made. Below is a brief description of some of the more common printing methods for art prints:

Giclee Print

pronounced as zhee-klay, it is a French word which means a spray or spurt of liquid. The name is descriptive of the way in which the print is created. A giclee is basically a digital printout of the original art work, created from digital scans of the original.

Once the scan is made and the image digitally archived, a sophisticated printer then makes a high resolution printout with high quality inks. The printer does this using a fine stream of ink, resulting in vivid, pure color with exceptional detail. A giclee can be printed in various sizes and onto various mediums like canvas and photo paper.

An advantage of giclee printing is the high level of accuracy and richness in color. Another advantage is that it enables artists to make easy reprints of their work to be sold, as and when required, or in bulk. It also avoids the heartache of selling off the original painting.

Lithograph

A lithograph works on the principle that water and oil do not mix. A hand-made lithograph is a print made by drawing with an oily substance such as crayons and pencils on porous stone or metal plates. An Oil-based ink is then applied to the moistened stone that adheres only to the lines drawn. The plates are then pressed onto a sheet of paper to produce the final print.

Serigraph

Serigraphy, or screenprinting, is a stencil printmaking process in which high quality paper is placed beneath a screen (or stencil). Ink is then applied over the screen using a squeegee. The screen has certain portions cut out so that the ink can be transferred onto the paper below. This process is then repeated for different screens and color until the final picture is complete. Screenprinting can be used on a variety of surfaces such as textiles, ceramics, metal, wood and paper and is commonly used in industries from clothing to product labeling.

Monoprint

A monoprint or monotype is a printing process whereby the artist paints a design onto a plate using a low drying ink. The image is then printed before the ink dries. One characteristic of monoprints, as the term “mono” implies, is that only one unique impression can be made using this process. That is, no two prints will ever be alike.

Canvas Transfer

A canvas transfer is a process of transferring an art work from a print onto a canvas. A special chemical is applied onto the art print, which when dried, can be separated from the paper and transferred onto a canvas. The canvas is then stretched across a frame and an artist will then apply brushstrokes to create the texture found on the original art work. The end result is artwork on the canvas that looks very much like the original.

Enjoy the art!

Copyright 2007 Edwin Mah



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Once your project is done with the content, you would like it to be printed well so that the matter would be conveyed well. There are many ways through which you can get your project’s hard copy printed in the most idealistic way. This article would help you to discover the different types of the printing methods like the digital printing, flexography, letter press, rotogravure, offset printing and screen printing. However I would be dealing with the most popular methods of digital printing and the flexography.

Digital printing: Transfer of a document through a device accepting text and graphic output is referred to as digital printing. With its growing popularity, this method of printing has almost replaced flexography. There has been a great change in the quality of the printing output and thus the printing industry has achieved higher standards in a much lesser time with the advent of digital printing.

Some of the merits derived from the usage of digital printing are as follows:

• When you are printing with other methods and incase you are intending to print the several impressions of the same thing on the paper, then the same impressions would be available on the paper. But with the digital printing each impression appearing on the paper is different from the other impression.

• There is not much absorption of the printing ink in the paper, thus facilitating good quality production of output.

• The setting up of the paper in the printer takes much lesser time and even in the set up of the chemicals.

Some of the widely used printing technologies used in digital printing are:

• Line printing: In this form of printing the preformatted characters are printed on to the paper in lines

• Daisy wheel: In this form each letter is endorsed independently.

• Dot matrix: A highly economical method that print the characters with the help of closely embedded dots

• Heat transfer: In this method, the printing fibers are printed with dyes, the design are embedded to the fabric by means of pre printed fabric paper through heat contact. This embedding through heat contact produces results of best quality and the images in particular produced through this method are crystal clear.

• Laser: This method produces the output by way of a toner which has polymer containing the pigments of different colors, hence deriving the printed result of great quality.

FLEXOGRAPHY

Flexography, another widely used method also known as Flexo, Flexo graphic printing and surface printing. Flexographic printing is widely used for the printing on packaging materials. A Flexographic print is derived from the creation of an image in a 3D model made out of rubber or polymer material. A substantial amount of ink is added to the printing plate. The printing surface revolves around the print substrate thus transferring the ink. This is a more preferable method than lithography as it offers better varieties in the colors of inks as well as the substrates on which it can be used. The flexography inks dry quickly because of their low viscosity. Quick production ensures cheaper cost of printing.



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There are various promotional tools that businesses use in order to advertise their product or services and even the business itself, such as, informative leaflets, newspaper ads, brochures, TV and radio commercials etc. Depending on the size of the business and its marketing budget, some companies use one advertising method, whereas some use more than one at a time.

Brochures are one of the most commonly used promotional tools by all sizes of businesses in the UK. This is due to the fact that brochures convey a visual message without putting a strain on your pocket. The effectiveness of a brochure is only limited by its design and quality of prints. Therefore, brochure printing is a sensitive task that requires attention to produce quality work. Brochures are usually printed to be distributed to existing or potential customers of a company. Since it’s a matter of the image of the company in front of its customers, therefore producing good quality brochures and keeping the quality consistent should be of top priority.

 

Most UK companies decide to get professional brochure printing services when they require to design and print brochures for their products or services in bulk quantity. It is a recommended approach because printing companies know the latest trends and designs that produce best results. However, there are a huge number of printing companies in the UK to choose from, so how can you know who is right one for you? A hassle free approach to selecting the right brochure printing company in the UK is to use a UK based facilitating agency, such as Quote Bean, that specializes in hooking up clients with the right supplier according to the requirements of the clients. You should make sure that you get at least five brochure printing quotes from different online brochure printing companies in the UK.

 

When deciding to choose an online brochure printing company in the UK for your brochure printing job, you need to be careful. Some companies have expertise in particular printing techniques that might not be suitable for your type of printing job or it may cost you unnecessarily higher. Therefore, you should choose a company that has the capability to produce your desired quality of brochure printing at the lowest cost. There are various printing techniques used by the printing companies, such as, gravure printing, screen printing, lithography printing and flexography printing techniques. Therefore it will be wise to do your homework first as to what printing technique would be most useful and cost-effective for your particular printing job.

 





 



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