There may be times when a constant thought came in to your mind while reading magazines:
"What makes these magazines look so perfect without any traces of printing on them?"
Well, this is not the only thought that you have in your mind. Many people who are regular with magazines and brochures tend to get this feeling. This is because each time you try printing something from your small home printer; you can easily feel the ink. However, this is just not the case with magazine prints. This is what makes you wonder about the technology behind the orienting that makes magazines look so perfect. When you print from your small printer, you can feel the printer ink, but not in the magazines. The secret to versatility of the printing is offset printers. Yes! It is offset printer that makes magazine and brochure printing eye catching and impressive.
What are Offset Printers?
These are big printing machines. The machines require huge space, premium quality ink and electricity to work in a better way. This is also the reason that these printers are affordable only to those who have huge printing houses and deal in quality printing services such as catalogues and magazines.
Offset printing is a kind of printing technique that is widely utilized for printing technique. In this process, the inked image coming from a plate is offset to a rubber blanket. Thereafter, it is transferred to a desired printing surface. The process is also defined as "Lithography" or "flat" printing. Ink and a rubber cylinder are used for the purpose. The concept of offset printing is usually used for colored brochures and invitations.
How Offset Printing Works?
The basic process of printing initiates via preparing a pre-copy. This can be anything from a paste up to internally produced documents. These are thereafter designed on the document. Thereafter, a picture is scanned from it. This is usually crafted by the customer as well as the supplier to the printer.
The printer works towards producing film positives and positives of the specific scanned data file and pre-copy image. Offset printing is known to be the most effective for affordable production of huge volumes of state-of-the-art quality prints. The best part is that these printers do not require a lot of maintenance.