Conventional printing technology
All printing process are concerned with two kinds of areas on the final output:
- Image of printing areas
- Non-image or non-printing areas
After the information has been prepared for production (the prepress step), each printing process has definitive means of separating the image from the non-image areas.
Conventional printing has four types of process:
- Planographics, in which the printing and non-printing areas are on the same plane surface and the difference between them is maintained chemically or by physical properties, the examples are: offset lithography, collotype, and screenless printing.
- Relief, in which the printing areas are on a plane surface and the non printing areas are below the surface, examples: flexography and letterpress.
- Intaglio, in which the non-printing areas are on a plane surface and the printing area are etched or engraved below the surface, examples: steel die engraving, gravure
- Porous, in which the printing areas are on fine mesh screens through which ink can penetrate, and the non-printing areas are a stencil over the screen to block the flow of ink in those areas, examples: screen printing, stencil duplicator.
3D Printing
3D printing is a form of manufacturing technology where objects are created using three-dimensional files and 3D printers. Objects are created by laying down or building up layers of material. Today, digital technology has brought significant changes in its speed, accuracy and quality. 3D printing is establishing a prototype of the design or developing 3D object of the design. The 3D technology follows an additive process in which the design of object to be developed is sliced horizontally and 3D printers produce thin layer using this horizontal slice of the design. 3Digi Prints provides high quality 3D printers and related services in the 3D printing niche.
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