How It's Printed: Business Cards | Online Printing by PrintPlace.com !!!

English English
PrintPlace specializes in high-quality,
quick turn,
From the moment your order How It's Printed: Business Cards | Online Printing by PrintPlace.com !!! is sent to press, a team
of qualified printing experts
begin producing your order.
First, our art technicians review your
job for several aspects such
as size, embedded fonts, resolution
and bleeds.
printed cards online Once your artwork passes this review, your job is passed on to pre-press.
The pre-press technician's job is
to assemble orders for maximum printing efficiency.
Yours as well as multiple customer's
jobs are grouped together for
properties such as paper stock,
size, quantity and processing options.
Several customers orders are placed
into a single group for greatest efficiency.
Once assembled, the jobs are sent to plating.
Here, the plate maker sends
each job to a thermal infrared imaging machine.
Aluminum plates containing an
infrared-sensitive emulsion load into
the plate setter where it wraps around the imaging drum.
The drum spins at a dizzying

RPM's, as an infrared
laser exposes an image onto the plate.
From there the now exposed
aluminum plate moves to the processor,
a four step treatment
is applied, developer chemical, water,
buffing, and gumming for further scratch protection.
A plate for each
color in the CNYP profile
are printed for transfer to
the press.
PrintPlace utilizes three
Komori offset printing presses for all of our printing.
Maxed out, the Komori press
can print a stunning
sheets per hour.
The pressman takes the aluminum
plates and hangs them
on ink units of each corresponding color.
Blank sheets are fed from the back of the machine.
A series of conveyers and
rollers rapidly shoot each
sheet under cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink units.
The rollers evenly distribute ink
to the plates, which offsets the
ink to a blanket roller,
that in turn, applies ink to the paper.
Coated sheets are then fed
through our aqueous coating unit
and run across heating elements for drying.
Every few hundred sheets, the pressman pulls a sheet for analysis.
He scans a color bar along the bottom edge edge for color accuracy.
Visual inspection is also needed to check for highest quality.
After printing, the sheets moved to the cutter.
A large industrial cutting machine slices up to
sheets.
Each job is then separated
for transfer to their particular finishing processes.
Your business card's once sliced
are still attached in columns that are four high.
As a finishing step, the cards
are loaded into a slitter, where
sets of rotary knives separate them.
The result, a
high quality, quick-turn business card ready to ship to your door.
Log on to PrintPlace.com today
to get your project started
or call us at

3949. *** ***