Questions and Answers of Printing

Q: What is printing process step?

A: Pre-press printing is including 3 steps in general, prepare work before printing , printing step and some other works after printing. The pre-printed pre-press work means, generally refers to photography, design, production, publishing, the film, proofing, etc.; In printing work in the medium term, through the printing press, not bound by the process of seized products; The latter refers to the work of printing, generally refers to the post-print processing, including cutting, coating, cutting machines, pasting bags, framed, UV coating and so on.

Q: How to print the planning, what information should be prepared?

A: The printed materials for the design of the planning is the theme of the way for printing, page size, print the contents of the subject matter, the color printing paper or a few, such as after the process should be careful, specific discussion of the production process to make the successful completion of Finally finished fine print.

General planning should be a clear target audience, and the preparation of targeted fax. Related industries can rival the collection of publicity materials, websites, magazines or abroad, as well as their own film companies or products of the factory or office, such as photos, gift boxes, printable scrapbook paper , etc.

Q: What is the production of finished (e-finished)?

A: The basis for planning the layout of the first draft of the Record, photos and illustrations, the correct position marked with the correct color and so on, followed by electronic means to deal with the full text of articles, and clear instructions to the special requirements of plate-making and make-up.

Q: What is the output made film?

A: e-ready output processing center should be the output film (film), clear instructions a few lines of output, and color, monochrome number of P, whether or not the number of characters and specifications for such projects, to avoid communication errors, resulting in non - necessary loss.

Q: What is pre-press proofing? Why should pre-press proofing?

A: This is a pre-final step is to output film made after the pre-press proofer used mainly to check whether the finished color proofing requirements, there is color calibration and other amendments must be especially careful to write red understand the specific location of the text description or outline of the right staff to convey to the plate in order to avoid unnecessary loss.

Q: how to coordinate design itinerary?

Answer: According to the printed copy writer planning, design, space planning, as well as arrangements for the drawing photography and illustrations, with the printing or design company to coordinate the production of his schedule to make the various elements of concrete.

Q: What are the after the refer print processing technology?

A: The post-print processing, including cutting, coating, cutting, pasting bags, framed, UV glazing, playing tearing line, stamping (gold, silver), embossing, etc. hit.

Q: What is the international standard on paper?

A: The international standard A4 size of 210x297, unless the client in the design of a specific request from National Cheng Kung University as far as possible the design of 16K that is 210x285, because the generous 16K of paper up to 210x285, to 210x297 only opened out 12K, caused by open waste paper, increased the cost of . Unconventional design of the print size, we must take into account the paper size and open method, in order to avoid wastage.

Q: What are the commonly used paper?

A: 1, paper: The most common paper, glossy surface, and suitable for a variety of color effects. 2. Matte copper: common paper, matte finish, more suitable for text or print more blank, visual soft. Should avoid large background, otherwise the effect of loss of light perception, but not easy to dry after printing. 3.Single copper: card paper, coated paper with a positive quality for the performance of color, the back of the same offset paper, suitable for spot color or text. Suitable for printing the packaging, paper bags, gift boxes, POP and a variety of cards. 4. Offset Paper: Matte, suitable for printing text, monochrome or spot-color map, unless special needs, not suitable for printing color photos, color and because of different levels related to the paper, color dark, dull.  5. Paper: Art paper, also known as a great variety of different designs to meet the requirements, but should be noted that in the specialty paper to print four-color maps, color and level should be affected, the best selection of brightly colored, crisp color images Another thing to note is to avoid large background on the one hand, the texture loss of the effect of specialty paper, on the other hand, difficult to dry.

Q: What is Spot? Why post-secondary-color printing more expensive than usual?

A: Spot-color ink refers to a good pre-mixed specific color ink, such as fluorescent yellow, pearl blue, metallic silver ink, such as gold, it does not depend on mixing up four-color CMYK and color means the color accuracy.

Spot Color printing generally used in the following three-color printing, if you need more than four-color printing, the selection of appropriate CMYK four-color printing.

Because the four-color CMYK printing color overprint basically is based on dots, and the use of spot-color printing are basic to the field, although usually only in the spot-color image of the local use, but the valuation, it is generally customary to double the price of ink to estimate; In addition, if the layout has the same four-color printing, the printing is concerned is equivalent to more than a color, if there is no extra printing press unit (for example, of less than four-color or four-color printing presses ), it also doubled the time it takes to print, the cost will be higher. There are some printing machines.

In short, the use of spot color should be particularly cautious, otherwise not only will cause color distortion, spoil your creativity and design, but also increase the economic costs and unnecessary waste of time.