samedi 20 août 2016

Digital Printing Has Started Taking The World By Storm

By Timothy Walker


Whether you're in a panic because you need thirty-two copies of your presentation for tomorrow's board meeting (and your awesome personal assistant is off sick and naturally, she's the only one in the building that knows how to work the printer) or whether you need your fifteen company vehicles wrapped for the new re-branding function next month, never fear because your digital printing in Syracuse, NY specialists are near!

The technology is a new-ish process. It is where an image is printed directly from digital media onto a variety of surfaces like paper, metal or glass. In many instances, it has replaced the traditional method of offset prints.

One of the important checks that they will make will be the resulting color compared to the requested color (remember that digital doesn't have the same variety as a screen job would). Once everything has been checked and finalized, the file is sent through to the garment printer. In the meantime, the clothing itself needs to be prepared.

If you're working to a budget, doing it digitally is your best option. The offset procedure needs to use plates and is therefore more expensive than the toner or liquid ink versions of the very same process. Additionally, if you need individualized jobs done (like codes or names and addresses) it would cost less to have these printed digitally as offsetting would need multiple plates to achieve the same effect.

Thermal wax is another print process, but it is mainly used on transparencies. It utilizes a wax-coated ribbon in four colors. The ribbons pass the printhead and heated pins will melt this wax onto the surface. Once the wax hardens, the colors are quite vibrant.

The design of the vehicle wrap should be handled by the professionals, with some input from you, of course. The files are created in specialized software, are usually very large and take longer to create than those required for normal digital printed media. Once you've approved the design and artwork, these files are printed on vinyl and laminated.

Before making your final decision about digital prints, please keep in mind that there are down sides to this sort of job. As the user can't use Pantone colors, the color accuracy and vibrancy is less than that of going with the offset model. The amount of printed material should also bear weight on your decision: typically, going with the offset option will be faster and cheaper per unit if you need huge volumes of over 500 units.

When you're submitting your material for processing, you'll need to provide the image in a common file format: usually Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop (. Ai, . Eps, . Pdf or . Psd, . Eps, . Tiff and . Jpeg). Now, with the wealth of information you've just managed to acquire, it should be a walk in the park to find an expert at doing prints digitally in Syracuse, NY.




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