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Calcium carbonate is used as a filler in the basesheet and in the paper coating as a pigment. It provides brightness and a more blue-white shade than clay does. Calcium carbonate is used in neutral or alkaline paper making, which results in a more permanent sheet than acid paper making by...

Might be a good thing if he did. 🤣

No manufacturing process can be absolutely 100% perfect - so every manufacturing process allows for some degree of variation from specifications. For practical and economic reasons, they all have a certain "tolerance for variation." So, what if car manufacturing was toleranced the same way as...

Is it correct that offset printers are doing very short run jobs - perhaps in competition with digital? An example: 300 copies of a 450 page book (black only) on, for example, a ManRolland sheetfed press.

Is it correct that offset printers are doing very short run jobs - perhaps in competition with digital? An example: 300 copies of a 450 page book (black only) on, for example, a ManRolland sheetfed press.

Printers and their customers are always looking for new ways to add value and a creative spin to print. When conventional CMYK, Hi-Fi, and Pantone spot colors just don't have the impact - it's time to look at the options available with effects pigments. Here is a run down of the most popular...

FTA, the Flexographic Technical Association, in their FIRST (Flexographic Image Reproduction Specifications and Tolerances) manual recommends the Round dot. And I agree for the reasons I originally gave. Of course, that's if you use an AM/XM screen. My personal preference of course is an FM type...

The choice of halftone dot shape is important because it has an impact on the aesthetics of the final presswork as well as on the lithographic performance of the press. This post describes the basic dot shape options available with conventional "AM" halftone screening. The descriptions apply to...

On a side bar... The first graphic design studio that I worked at was "Etienne Creative" in 1969. Errol H. R. Etienne was a profound influence in my attitude towards the graphic arts as he epitomized the complete commercial artist excelling at design, illustration, photography, and typography...

I can smell it from here.

I agree. Unfortunately There were no sources where I live. Can you provide samples? If so I could PM you my address. BTW, I also didn't include collotype which is my favorite print method - primarily because I don't believe there are any printers still using it. Sad.

The proliferation of new printing technologies like commercial production toner and ink jet presses as well as the rapid increase in quality of some traditional systems like flexography, has made it a bit difficult to determine exactly which printing method was used for a given sample. Was it...

Continuing the guide to help you identify which printing method has been used. Of course print technology is constantly improving so these samples may not precisely reflect your experience. Engraving Engraving is typically used for currency/bank note printing, stamps, and sometimes very...