The Frog Blog

How do you send my leaflets out so quickly? Don't they need time to dry?!Seal is especially important to our print due to our fast turnaround times...Our presses are sheet fed presses, meaning our paper is supplied as single sheets in large stacks. There are other similar machines which are web-fed, rather than sheet-fed, which have their paper supplied on large rolls.As the paper feeds through each unit of the press, the ink for each of the 4 CMYK colours is applied to form the c …

What is offset printing and how does the ink get on the paper?Once the printing plates have been processed (Technical Tuesday No.2), they are attached to the plate cylinders on the printing press. There is one of these in each single unit of the press as shown in the photograph below. Each of our Heidelberg printing presses has 10 units.8 plates are required for double sided printing and it is essential that they are correctly positioned on the cylinder so that …