What is offset printing?
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Ganging jobs on large offset presses
Standard paper stocks
Standard quantities
High press utilisation
The above is an image of an offset printing press.
TheOnlinePrinter offers three types printing:
This page, and the following pages, explain a bit about our offset printing service (also termed as a discount priced and cheap printing service).
Our discount printing service is cheap in price, but remains high quality.
We use the traditional types of commercial printing presses for our discount priced printing service. These presses are called ‘offset presses’, and they are large and heavy, make lots of noise, have drums with plates attached that spin around and around, run at a very fast speed, use traditional ‘wet’ inks, and can ‘pump out’ heaps of printed matter in a very short period of time. Have a look at the above image and you will see steps and a walkway — it is a big machine.
Our offset presses are A1 and A2 in size. This means the paper that is used is either four (4) times the size of a standard A4 letterhead, or eight (8) times the size of a standard A4 letterhead.
So, given the above very brief description, how does TheOnlinePrinter use those offset presses to create its discount priced and cheap printing products? The answer comes in four parts, and if you click on the relevant page, you can find our more about each part of our cheap and discount priced printing service:
