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Technical Tuesday No. 3: Offset Printing
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
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11th Nov 2014