Sheet-fed litho - Cost Effective upto 20,000 impressions
over this see heat
set web (becomes a lower costing option).
Offset litho printing on to single sheets of paper or board.
Commonly used for printing of short run magazines, brochures,
letter headings, general commercial (jobbing) printing.
Offset printing is the most common form of high-volume commercial
printing, due to advantages in quality and efficiency in
high-volume jobs. While modern digital presses (Indigo Digital
Press, for example) are getting closer to the cost/benefit
of offset for high-quality work, they have not yet been
able to compete with the sheer volume of product that an
offset press can produce. Furthermore, many modern offset
presses are using computer to plate systems as opposed to
the older computer to film workflows, which further increases
their quality.
In the last two decades, flexography has become the dominant
form of printing in packaging due to lower quality expectations
and the significantly lower costs in comparison to other
forms of printing. |
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