Today we took a little trip down to Duffield Printers. We had a great afternoon and learnt a lot. These are a few snaps I took of the hustle and bustle involved in printing....
8 Plate double side printer...
Exemplar print from this machine...
Rollers which get inked up...
Cyan rollers in operation...
Yellow inking up roller...
Magenta inking up roller...
Aluminium printing plate...
Font of machine where the paper is fed in...
Suckers used to feed in paper..
Palettes of paper waiting to be fed into machine...
5 printing plates...
Folding machine...
Publications waiting to be folded...
Being fed into the machine...
Folded publications leaving machine, ready for packaging...
16400 publications/hour...
Machine for staple binding...
Machine for cutting publication to size...
Die cutting machine...
Typical board used to die cut; crease and cut...
£3000/year spent on recycling cut-offs...
Front of die cutting machine...
Rolls of laminate, gloss coatings...
Laminating machine...
Laminating in the process...
Digital print...
Inks...
Single plate printer...
..these are the notes I took on file prep for providing your work to a printers whilst sat in 'Alan Sugar's board room!'
All in all, I found this visit greatly beneficial and truly deepened my understanding of the process involved in printing.
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