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2. Screen printing - Wikipedia

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   Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil.A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen in a "flood stroke" to fill the open mesh apertures with ink, and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact.

3. Prepress - Wikipedia

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   Prepress is the term used in the printing and publishing industries for the processes and procedures that occur between the creation of a print layout and the final printing. The prepress process includes the preparation of artwork for press, media selection, proofing, quality control checks and the production of printing plates if required.

4. Print Gocco - Wikipedia

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   The Print Gocco process was a variant of screen printing; Print Gocco housed both the screen-making and screen-printing elements within one compact footprint with a hinged plastic frame. The materials included proprietary blank screens, consisting of thin layer of thermoplastic bonded to a mesh, held in a cardboard frame and covered with ...

5. Prepress proofing - Wikipedia

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   Prepress proofing (also known as off-press proofing [4]) is a cost-effective way of providing a visual copy without the expense of creating a press proof. [5] If errors are found during the printing process on press, correcting them can prove very costly to one or both parties involved. Press time is the most expensive part of print media.

6. Lines per inch - Wikipedia

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   Lines per inch (LPI) is a measurement of printing resolution. A line consists of halftones that is built up by physical ink dots made by the printer device to create different tones. Specifically LPI is a measure of how close together the lines in a halftone grid are. The quality of printer device or screen determines how high the LPI will be.

7. Gang run printing - Wikipedia

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   It takes up to 250 sheets for a "make ready," which is the process of getting the plates inked up and the ink levels set correctly. Printers use the term "gang run" or "gang" to describe the practice of placing many print projects on the same sheet or piggybacking a project on a vacant, unused portion of a print sheet. Sheet-fed presses are ...