Handbook of print media technologies and production methods free download

Integration of New Media. Layout, Typography, Graphic Design. Graphic Design. Digital Production Equipment in the Workflow. Overview of Printing Technologies.

Printing Technologies with a Printing Master. Gravure Printing. Screen Printing. Ink Jet. Color Image Composition. Printing Inks. Structure and Requirements. Offset Printing Inks. Gravure Printing Inks. Flexographic Printing Inks. Letterpress Printing Inks. Screen Printing Inks. Pad Printing Inks. Inks for Non-Impact Printing Technologies.

General Structure. Designs for Multicolor Printing. Sheet-fed Printing Presses. Web-fed Printing Presses. Packaging Printing Presses. Physical Drying Absorption. Infrared IR Drying.

Evaporative Drying. Problems in Practical Operation. Auxiliary Drying Techniques. Silicone Application. Measuring Techniques. Basic Principles. Print Quality. Sheet-fed Offset Printing. Paper Travel. Printing Units. Print Enhancement and In-line Finishing. Press Architecture Special Designs. Web-fed Offset Printing. Press and System Concepts Components. Web Travel Infeed and Further Processing.

Printing Unit. Folders and Print Product Variations. Newspaper Printing. Press Remote Control Systems. Color Measurement and Control Systems. Register Measurement and Control. Inspection of the Printed Image. Gravure Cylinder Manufacture. Gravure Cylinder Imaging. Storage and Changing of Gravure Cylinders.

Impression Roller. Inking Unit and Doctor Blade. Circumferential and Lateral Register. Magazine Turner Bars Superstructure. Gravure Printing Folders. Reel Stand. Examples of Gravure Printing Systems. Gravure Printing in the Packaging Industry. Potential for Further Development.

Equipment and Machinery for Flat-bed Screen Printing. Word Processing, Typesetting. Typesetting Procedure. Text Input. Word Processing and Typesetting. Designs of Output Devices. Requirements on Films.

Use and Importance of Analog Reproduction. Principles, Tasks of Photomechanical Reproduction. Machines and Devices used in Reproduction Technology. Production of Film Copies for Multicolor Printing. Electronic Reproduction Technology Repro Scanner. Page Make-up. Sheet Assembly. Platemaking and Quality Control. General Information. Offset Printing. Structure of Digital Printed Products.

Technological Capabilities and Workflows. Digital Description of the Printed Page. Digital Screening Processes. Quality Requirements. Input and Output Resolution. Transferable Tonal Range. Dot Shape. Tone Value Influences in Printing. Color Management Profiles.

Image-dependent Effects and Corrections. Digital Photography. Origins of Digital Photography. Image Scanning with Digital Cameras. Demands on the Resolution. Special Features of Digital Cameras. Digital Photography and Color Management. Digitizing Originals Scanner. Scanner Designs and Models. Drum Scanners. Flat-bed Scanners. Digitizing and Redigitizing. Sheet Assembly and Imposition. Page Make-up and Sheet Assembly. Full-Sheet Output.

Imposition through Software. Imposition Workflows. Storage Media. Network Concepts and Components. Working with Networks. Data Formats. Color Management. Production of Color Profiles. Structure of Color Profiles. Connection of Color Profiles. Rendering Intent. Color Management and the Production of Proofs.

Color Management for Images on the Internet. Color Management and Standardization. Digital Proof. Soft Proof. Hard Proof. Color Management Concepts.

Preflight Check. Film Production and Platemaking. Computer to Film Systems. Computer to Plate Systems. Computer to Film. Computer to Plate. The Use of Computer to Technologies and Networking for the Production of Print Media. Principles and Equipment. Film Material. Non-Impact Printing Technologies Overview.

Inks for Non-Impact Printing Processes. Components for Computer to Print Systems. Imaging System and the Principle of Ionography. Overview of Ink Jet Technologies and Processes. Drop on Demand Ink Jet Technologies. Structure of Ink Jet Arrays. Overview of Thermography Technologies.

Thermal Transfer Printing Systems. Thermal Sublimation Printing Systems. TonerJet Printing Technology. Direct Imaging Printing Technology. Basic Principles of Process Structuring. Production Flow in Print Finishing. Interlinking Modules in Print Finishing. Temporary Storage of Folded Sheets. Production Lines in Print Finishing Examples. Cutting Lines for Labels. Production Lines for Mailings and Folded Products. Newspaper Mailroom. Mailroom for Magazines.

Binding Lines for Multi-layer Brochures. Production Lines for Hardcovers. Finishing Short Print Runs. Network Concepts and Interfaces. Digital Workflow. Digital Workflow in Prepress. Production Costs per Printed Page. Trends in Print Media Production. Screen Output. Projection Equipment. Stereo Output. Projection Directly to the Eyes. History of Technology Press and Prepress. Offset Printing and Offset Printing Presses. Gravure Printing and Gravure Printing Presses. Letterpress Printing and Letterpress Printing Presses.

Education and Qualifications Career Profiles, Courses. The Printing Industry as an Employer. Educational Requirements and Options. Vocational Training. Course of Study. Scholarships for International Study Programs. Heidelberg Print Media Academy. Science and Research selected Examples. Subjects, Methods, and Cooperations.

Inking Units. Sheet Transfer. Industrial Joint Research. Environmental Protection in the Printing Industry. Environmental Protection in Offset Printing. Environmental Protection in Gravure Printing. Environmental Protection in Letterpress and Flexographic Printing. Environmental Protection in Screen Printing. Environment-oriented Business Management.

Legal Foundations. Support and Advice for Environmentrelevant Measures. Safety Resources. Health and Safety. International and European Directives Laws and Standards. Safety-conscious Design. Requirements for Separating Protective Devices. Hazard Analysis, Risk Assessment.

Intended Use. Newspaper Market. Magazine Market. Book Market. Catalog Market. Advertising Printing Market. Packaging Market. SOHO Market. Materials Printing Plates, Blankets. Printing Technologies and Printing Presses. Quality, Quality Specifications, and Measurement Techniques. Safety of Machinery. Environmental Management. Research Institutes and Research Centers. Powder Spraying. Production Options and Business Models.

It is true that the age of electronic media has started; however printed information is and remains omnipresent.

The market for print products offers more variety than ever before. Usually, printed products are categorized into commercial printing and periodicals. This classification differentiates printed matter with regard to its frequency of publication. Since the production process also depends largely on these basic conditions, printshops usually specialize in one or the other market segment. Commercial printing refers to print products that are produced occasionally e. Periodicals are printed matter that appears periodically e.

Publishing houses and companies are the typical clients for periodicals printing. The variety of print media is illustrated in figures 1. Another way of categorizing printed Fig. These individual groups are described briefly in the following. A much greater proportion of the population had the chance to acquire education, culture, and information than had ever been possible with hand-written books.

Consequently, illiteracy decreased in the following centuries. For over years letterpress was the dominant printing technology for books. It was not only more efficient production processes but also the availability of inexpensive paper that were decisive reasons for the breakthrough of books as mass media.

The printed book developed its independent appearance over time. The form of the type used moved away from imitated script types to its own type forms. Even today, in the age of electronic media, annual growth rates in book production are still recorded. With close to eighty thousand titles produced annually, Germany is one of the biggest markets for books in the world today. Only China and Great Britain produced more titles in cf.

In more than million books worth over 3. Books are offered both in one color book printing as well as in top-quality multicolor art publications. The range of books available today in Germany has risen to over titles. The same applies to other printed products such as magazines, periodicals, newspapers, and brochures. Trade magazines cover a limited field, thus attracting a limited specialist readership.

Unlike books, production costs for magazines are not paid for exclusively by the final consumer. Often more than half of the costs are financed by advertising.

Magazines are usually published by publishing houses just like books. Unlike books, magazines usually have a shorter lifespan. This is due to the content and it is a major characteristic of the periodical. Since magazines have a limited length of use and differ from books greatly in terms of content, their external form also differs from that of books.

Magazine production differs considerably from book production. Magazines are generally multicolored booklets with a flexible cover. They often have a high circulation and are bound using simple binding processes e. Depending on the circulation, magazines are printed with sheet-fed offset or web offset presses, but 5 6 1 Fundamentals rotogravure presses are also used for magazines with a very high circulation.

The first newspapers appeared at the start of the seventeenth century. Pamphlets in the sixteenth century were the precursor of the newspaper. Most newspapers are produced daily and have a high circulation. Some daily papers even appear a few times per day, to ensure that their content is very up-to-date. The two most important categories of newspapers are daily papers dailies and weekly papers.

The external appearance of newspapers differs considerably from that of magazines. Newspapers normally consist of large-size loose sheets. Several of these loose sheets are combined during production and form an individual section of the paper. These presses are highly productive web presses, which can print on uncoated paper, at low cost. The traditional newspaper used to be black and white.

Modern printing presses are able to print in color economically. The production of a newspaper is mainly financed by advertising inserts and advertisements. For this reason the ultimate consumer price for a newspaper is relatively low.

Such printed matter is referred to as brochures. Unlike magazines and newspapers, they are not published periodically. Brochures are commercial print work. Another significant difference from newspapers or magazines is the usually low print volume of brochures. Today, brochures are generally printed in color and are available either as folded individual sheets or bound copies.

They are of better quality than newspapers. Brochures are mainly used to describe something particular e. Brochures are mostly used for advertising; therefore production costs are normally borne by the advertiser and not by the reader.

It can be made of very different materials such as paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, glass, and so on. In the first place, packaging is used to protect the actual goods inside, but it also makes for an attractive presentation. At the same time packaging is also printed on to provide information about the package content. All the major printing technologies are used for printing packaging — often in a combination of several technologies.

This trend continues today and is characterized particularly by the use of computers and the Internet. In addition to the latest developments in the Internet and World Wide Web, electronic media also include the more conventional radio and television along with the corresponding forms of storage such as video and audio recordings on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM as well as animations. Electronic media, as is the case with print media, also involve a chain of creation and transmission which depends on the specific form of the media.

As a rule, the first stage in this process consists in generating the contents, for instance, for recordings onto audio or video tape. In some cases, information is converted from one medium to another, such as from conventional film to video.

In the case of web pages though, content can also be computer-generated, thus allowing for the use of content from both the real and the virtual worlds. The description of an animation can be considerably more compact and efficient than the transmission of the video sequence.

Therefore, the actual animation may only be executed on a final output device such as a powerful presentation computer. In the case of electronic media products, the specific demands on the presentation must already be taken into account in the design stage.

The reasons for this include the low local resolution in comparison to print products and the restriction of the output format e. In both cases, an attempt is made to restrict the volume of data because of the limited capacity of the storage media or because of the limited bandwidth of communication channels.

Compression techniques play an important role here. They permit the reduction of data without a noticeable loss of quality. The underlying transmission technologies may be varied, ranging from Internet connections via dedicated switched connections, such as satellite routes, or high-speed links via cable or glass fiber, to private or company networks, also with various technology company television, Intranets.

The presentation systems, for instance, computer monitors, television screens, projector devices, audio reproduction systems loudspeakers, headphones are generally at the end of the transmission chain.

Before these systems can respond though, codings and compression processes might have to be reversed with corresponding components software and hardware to represent the transmitted data.

In the place of presentation systems, memory can also be found there that records the data transmitted, for instance, to reproduce it at another time. The use and dissemination of electronic media can be regulated with protection rights which are, however, relatively easily infringed; this applies particularly to digital data where the copy is just as good as the original. K i p p h a n I S B N 3 - 5 4 0 - 6 7 3 2 6 - 1 be detected in order to determine the location at which the data was made available.

In a broader sense, electronic media also include in particular interactive applications: media which appear differently depending on user intervention. These include computer games, interactive simulations, or virtual reality applications.

This leads directly on to multimedia concepts which are described in the following section. Please refer to chapter 11 for more details.

Multimedia systems do not just output these different types of information; these systems make it possible to simultaneously create multimedia information and interact with other multimedia documents data files on data storage units, such as a server and CD-ROM. Multimedia means nothing more than making use of several types of information text, images, graphics, animation, video and audio sequences in one publication. As illustrated in figure 1. Human communication is multimedial as humans transmit information, for instance in a conversation, by talking and gesticulating simultaneously.

The technical application of using several media simultaneously to reproduce content is not new either. Thus, for example, television can simultaneously transmit information using text, image, and sound. The addressing of several sensory organs combined with the advantages of using individual media has synergetic effects making the multimedia product an attractive option.

CD-ROM publications are not multimedia documents as such. CD-ROM, etc. The same applies to Internet publications; here too, different types of information have to be linked with one another before you have a multimedia presentation. Hypertext as an additional type of information is in itself not a multimedia document; only when hyperlinks point to multimedial contents does a hypertext become a multimedial hyperlink document.

The play-back devices computer, television, etc. A medium which can be used to pass on a fragrance to consumers, or to call on the sense of touch by certain surface properties in addition to transmitting text and visual information is, for example, paper.

One might therefore say that paper is a multimedial product. However, printed information lacks dynamism and interaction. With play-back devices for electronically stored information there is also a potential for appealing to the senses of touch and smell in the future e.

The growth of the printing industry is influenced essentially by macroeconomic factors such as economic development and consumer demand. In the industrial countries the production volume of the printing industry has a share of 0. In the USA the printing industry is the sixth largest industrial sector and has therefore a clear economic significance for the country. In the printing companies worldwide will achieve a turnover in the range of — billion US dollars.

Figure 1. Catalogs are the least important in terms of sales. North America has the greatest per capita consumption of print products per year.

This is six times greater than the worldwide average consumption of 58 US dollars fig. An analysis of individual countries shows a more differentiated picture. In comparison the volume of print products is predicted to rise by 2. As far as printed matter world-wide is concerned, packaging and label printing shows strong growth while the other product segments such as advertising and commercial printing, newspapers, catalogues, magazines, and books show a moderate increase fig.

There is an enormous variation in growth between individual regions or countries. Hence the greatest future growth rates are expected in China and other emerging markets, whereas the highly developed economies will show only slight increases. The printing industry as a whole has generally been undergoing enormous structural and technological change for several years. Apart from the changes affecting the traditional printing sector, the integration of new media e.

The best example of this is in the area of prepress, where technological developments mean that the average expected product life cycle of the equipment is only eighteen months.

Printing processes are being increasingly controlled and adjusted electronically, which leads to consistent high quality and greater productivity. Digital workflow also means that productions are completed more rapidly. Hence more than half of the orders for commercial printers arrive in digital form. This is the only way of shortening delivery times for print products and meeting the high customer demand for quality. All printing companies are expected to offer greater flexibility in the processing of a large variety of substrates, inks, and methods of print finishing.

This means that there is a visible trend for all print products to employ multicolor as well as decorative and special colors. In addition, run lengths are getting shorter since experts believe that the greatest chance of growth lies in the market for small, color work with a fast turnaround time. The information and communication sector is expected to provide a positive impulse for the whole printing industry. Recently, electronic publishing has revolutionized the world of prepress.

View 5 excerpts, cites background. The printability tester is defined as a device for uniformly applying a reproducible amount of ink to a substrate under specified conditions using a motorized control of the ink transfer process … Expand. View 1 excerpt, cites background. In digital printing, an image is sent directly to the printer using digital files such as PDFs from graphic software such as Illustrator and In Design. This eliminates the need for a printing plate, … Expand.

Nowadays, flexographic printing process is the most cost-effective printing technique. Due to its capacity to produce very good print quality it is predominantly used for labelling and packaging … Expand. View 2 excerpts, cites background and methods. Screen Printing and Rheology of Pastes. Screen printing is one of the most prominent printing processes with its wellknown application in classical fields, e.

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Written by an expert in the field, the Handbook is unique in covering the entire spectrum of modern print media production. Technologies and Production Methods. With 1, pages, containing 1, illustrations — over half in colour — the Handbook conveys the current state of technology together with its specific terminology. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website.

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