Print Reprographics

Chemistry Free Printing at Printhouse

4 January 2011

For Christmas, we thought it only fair to treat the Repro department here at Printhouse to a whole new chemistry free plate making system. Making our previous processor redundant was an absolute joy. Gone are the days of dirty plates, chemistry fumes and high maintenance machinery. We are happy to introduce the new Presstek plates [...]

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A Few Things to Consider or Avoid When Designing for Print

2 November 2010

The next company publication is coming out and you have the final say on what goes to print. You may be a designer who has full creative reign over the project or you may, by your own admission, be as clueless as they come when it comes to making creative decisions. Either way, how do [...]

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The Lost People of Repro…

21 September 2010

So, first of all, what exactly is Repro… and who are these people? Well, I work in the Repro department here at Printhouse and felt it about time introduce myself and give a quick explanation of what Reprographics actually is, what we do and of course, why we are such an important part of the [...]

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Section Printing

26 March 2010

You may often hear your printer talking about “sections” – but what does this actually mean? Simply, all printing presses run sheets of paper that are larger than the finished items you are printing, and onto this single sheet (1x section) he will fit up 2, 4, 6, 8 etc pages of your finished brochure. [...]

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What Is Trapping And How Is It Used In Print?

11 January 2010

What is trapping? Trapping is a pre-press technique used to compensate for registration errors in lithographic printing and is the process of adding a slight overlap between adjacent areas of color to avoid gaps caused by misalignent. A litho press requires each colour separation to be laid down one at a time over the next [...]

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What is bleed and how is it used in print?

13 November 2009

This is one of the most common questions we answer at Printhouse.  Bleed is a specific area (usually 3mm) added to each outside edge of a page as an aid for the finisher to be able to trim the final document correctly. For example, a document at A4 size, being 210mm x 297mm will measure [...]

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Coated and uncoated papers – what exactly is the difference?

28 September 2009

People often ask us about how coated and uncoated material each affect the look and feel of a finished document. I thought I’d try and explain some of the differences. In the initial stages, most paper is made in a similar way, through drying, compressing and separating a dilute mixture of wood pulp, textile fibre, [...]

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How do I make a press ready PDF using InDesign CS2?

8 September 2009

Understanding the Export to PDF settings InDesign CS2 In this blog, I will assume that it is already understood what a press ready PDF is and what it should contain. If not, please see my previous post here: http://printquote.printhouse.co.uk/2009/08/what-is-a-press-ready-pdf/. When you are happy that your design document meets press ready standards, including all fonts, images [...]

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What is a Press Ready PDF?

3 August 2009

What is a press ready PDF? PDF stands for Portable Document Format and was created by Adobe Systems primarily for document exchange. Most people will be familiar with the 2D fixed layout when exchanging files over email or downloading information from the web. PDFs are used to encapsulate the complete description of a file by [...]

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What size is B1 paper? And exactly how big is A2 paper?

11 June 2009

Actually, for that matter what size is A1, B2 and any other shape or size sheet of paper. Paper sizes can be confusing because there are no obvious round numbers involved. So whereas some people will know that an A4 sheet of paper is 210mm x 297mm and that when you move onto the A3 [...]

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