What is the Printing Industry?

Companies in this industry primarily print on paper, textile products, metal, glass, plastic and other materials, excluding fabric. Industry operators engage a variety of printing processes including lithographic平版印刷, gravure凹(版)印刷,影印, screen絲(網(wǎng))印刷, flexographic柔印, digital數(shù)字印刷 and letterpress凸版(活版)印刷. This industry does not include publishers that also perform printing, nor does it comprise companies that perform prepress or postpress services without traditional printing.

Industry Products

Commercial lithographic printing

Commercial flexographic printing

Commercial screen printing

Digital printing

Other printing (報(bào)紙,雜志,特種印刷,非紙類(lèi)印刷)

Book printing

Commercial gravure printing

Industry Activities

Commercial lithographic printing

Commercial gravure printing

Commercial flexographic printing

Commercial screen printing

Quick printing

Digital printing

Manifold business forms printing (商業(yè)表單印刷,復(fù)寫(xiě)用紙)

Book printing

Blank book, loose-leaf binders and devices (活頁(yè)夾書(shū)籍本子)

 Offset vs Digital?

When it comes to printing on paper, we offer two print methods to choose from, Digital toner based printing and Offset soy based ink printing. Each technology offers amazing quality, advantages and disadvantages.

Digital print technologies allows for short-run printing of many products, which prior to this technology, were not available in such low quantities. Print products such as booklets and perfect bound books. Digital pritning is also great for same day or next day printing. Another advantage of digital pritning is the ability to print on a wide range of paper stocks. This flexibility is also an advantage for many designers that are always challenging their creativity. Textured papers, uncoated finishes and colored card stocks are some of the design elements that digital printing offer graphic designers. Typically, digital flat pieces max out at 2500 quantities depending on size and paper, before it makes more sense economically to print offset.

Offset, soy based ink printing, is also commonly known as lithography which is the term most utlized in commercial printing. Offset printing is the highest print quality available and its the prefered print method for large print runs of most jobs. Magazines, booklets, books, posters, fliers and brochures that print in quanties of 2500 or greater usually print on our offset machines. Offset printing limits our paper stock options that are available. Paper stocks tend to be mostly coated paper stocks ranging from 70lb gloss book to 16pt gloss coated cardstock.

If in doubt which option is the best for you, please ask any of our customer services representatives for advice. We also, alsways invite you to visit our shop and our showroom is full of various print options