As we have been talking about the base or our basics, the 3 cylinders system is called OFFSET print, and yesterday we spoke on the WEB and why the web verses a sheetfed press.
Quanity is really the only difference, as the equipment can run the same look, it is just the quanity which diktakes the equipment.
On a sheetfed press we still have the 3 cylinders, but the basic rule here is STRAIGHT, FLAT, and ONE at a Time. Meaning the sheet goes down a table, the sheet stops so briefly, before the press grabs the sheets and puts the ink on paper. Where the Web is the roll and it prints both sides at one time, and then folds the sheet.
You will use a sheetfed press for a million items, but ussally you are going to do something with that item, like fold it, die cut it, punch it stable it, hang it or just use it!
But each piece of equipment is used for a different purpose.
The one question which keeps coming up over and over again is WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THIS PIECE OF MATERIAL?, and the awnser to this question will allow us to know what piece of equipment to use.
Till then
Alan
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