Water and waterless - offset printing
Offset printing is the most popular type of printing in today's printing industry. It is true that it has many varieties and uses different techniques and materials (paint, paper). The main division is cold printing, where the paint is fixed by soaking into paper. While the 'hot' offset where the printed paper web passes through the drying tunnel.
The classic offset (water) is associated with the use of water rollers and hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces, however, this method is already abandoned due to the difficulty in obtaining a good balance of water and oil paint.
The successor of this method is anhydrous offset printing where silicone molds are used instead of water.
Changing print needs
Printing is needed, no one has doubts about it, but are they just as necessary as 20 years ago? This is a debatable issue, but certainly the market needs and consumer demand have changed a bit.
The production of marketing materials increased significantly - leaflets, banners, promotional leaflets, and advertisements - and decreased the production of books and magazines, mainly due to the popularization of the Internet. Will we wait for the times when printers, DTP operators and printing house owners will have to look for a new job?
Colored marketing
Everyone likes colorful magazines or leaflets. But what would the world of marketing and advertising look like if it were not for printing and printing? Today, such things are produced on a mass scale, expenditures are increasing, because demand is growing all the time.
Nowadays, there is no company that at least once would not use the services of a printing company - leaflets, business cards or a small banner, it's almost a standard for every company. From small ones to big ones? it is known that on a different scale. However, you can still see badly marked or un-promoted brands, the reason for this may be the lack of investment in printing advertising materials.