Working with print - Visiting professional: Evolution print

Visiting professional: Evolution print

Jason

Printing company in Sheffield

Commercial litho-printers

Ink on paper

Pagination/Paper/Stock

Lito - Higher volumes of print. Plate system. Aluminium plates. 4 Different plates. CPT (computer to plate). Laser burns the coating and leaves the design.

B1/B2/5 colour. Sheet fed. vegetable based inks.

B1- 720x1020. 20mm grip

SRO1 640x900

60gsm - 450gsm

Litho is better than digital for printing

Gloss, silk uncoated

Use uncoated generally

Paper affects the art work

Bright colours + Sharp = silk

If dots spread into paper, duller image

gains weight with the addition of ink

Sealer dries the ink but doesn't smudge

Litho

'Little bit of print knowledge can go a long way'

£100 for full set of plates (4)

500 means  litho takes over becomes cheaper than digital

Pagination 

Cheapest way of doing a book, using 'self cover' - same weight cover as the pages.

extra cost for a heavier cover

28 pages are always expensive. work in multiples 8 and 16 pages

Fedrigoni - Paper stockist 

Tumble stroke work & turn machine

Cant get a sharp looking image on uncoated

Digital print

Smaller paper size than lito

4 folded A4s cant fit on a digi print sheet

320x450mm

350gsm

Full colour, no metallics or fluorescents

Ink is powdered

 B1 is best for large quantities

Things designers get wrong when printing:

• Bleed images, 3mm bleed around art work. Strokes, crop marks.
• Spot colours in artwork needed convert to cmyk
• business cards - dont put 8 cards onto A4 spread. Keep pages as singles not spreads.
• Send as PDF and original format 
• don't use spot colours as transparency
• don't use a 60mb A3 image
• Keep sizes the size they're used
• artwork at 300dpi