Digital printing can be done in various ways. Two technologies dominate the industry: Inkjet – In an inkjet printer the image that needs to be printed is created by small droplets of ink that are propelled from the nozzles of [...] Read More

In flexography the content that needs to be printed is on a relief of a printing plate, which is made from rubber. This plate is inked and that inked image is subsequently transferred to the printing surface.  The process can [...] Read More

Also known as rotogravure, this is a technique in which an image is engraved into a printing cylinder. That cylinder is inked and this ink subsequently transfers to the paper.  Gravure is used for high volume work such as newspapers,  [...] Read More

In offset lithography a printing plate, which is most often made from aluminum, contains an image of the content that needs to be printed. When the plate is inked, only this image part holds ink. That inked image is subsequently [...] Read More

There are a wide variety of technologies that are used to print stuff. The main industrial printing processes are: Offset lithography Flexography Digital printing (inkjet & xerography) Gravure Screen printing Additional printing techniques were developed for very specific applications. These [...] Read More

As its name implies, this printing technique relies on a screen, which is a woven piece of fabric. Certain areas of this mesh are coated with a non-permeable material. In the remaining open spaces ink can be pushed through the [...] Read More