The history of Offset printing goes back to the late 1970s. It was in Munich when a man named Alois Senefelder rubbed two stones together.
While the polishing slabs with the greasy substance on stones, an image formation took place. A clear image was then reproduced using fountain ink.
It was the accidental experiment of Alois that let to a revolution in the field of printing. The traditional name given to this method was Offset printing.
With the development of technology and sciences, several ways were then introduced to start offset printing.
Engineers started using Lithographic stones into action at first while printing and with the further developments aluminum plates replaced lithographic stones.
There are two different types of offset printing.
In this type of printing, individual sheets are fed into the machine. This type of printing is often used in commercial printing and packaging printing.
Larger rolls are printed using this particular type of offset printing. Web printing is largely used in printing newspapers.
Offset printing when compared to digital printing, has its benefits.
In traditional Offset printing, transferring of the image takes place through aluminum plates. The aluminum plates have a thick coating of photosensitive layers done on them.
Hence the result printed on the product is crisp and the exact implementation of the given original image is the exact result.
The right shade of color on the product is also delivered only with the Offset printing.
Offset printers consist of more than four units in a single series. It also consists of varnishing units, which makes color delivery according to the client’s needs possible.
On the other hand Digital printing does not deliver the right color because printing takes place through computerization.
Unlike the manual efforts used in offset printing.
The cost-effectiveness of Offset printing is also better than digital printing. Thus Printing in bulk using the offset printing technique is cheaper.
As the amount assigned to a single piece of the product decreases when the number of total printed products increases.
Also, the durability of offset printing is better than digital printing as it is because of the larger lifetime of the printing plates.
All Tech Printpack is an offset printing and packaging company, providing solutions to clients from various industries.
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