What is the detailed process flow of printing?

The printing process is divided into three stages:

Prepress: refers to prepress work, generally referring to photography, design, production, typesetting, output film proofing, etc.

Intermediate printing: refers to the work in the middle of printing and the process of printing finished products with a printing machine;

Post-press: generally refers to the post-treatment of printed matter, including gluing (laminating), UV, oiling, beer, bronzing, embossing, mounting, binding and cutting. , mostly used for publicity and packaging printed matter.

Printing refers to the technology of transferring ink to the surface of paper, fabric, leather and other materials through the processes of plate making, ink application and pressure, and copying the original content in batches. There are many forms of printing, the most common of which are traditional offset printing, screen printing and digital printing.

Printing is a kind of reproduction technology for the graphic information of the manuscript. Its biggest feature is that it can copy the graphic information on the manuscript in large quantities and economically on various substrates. It can be said that its finished products can be widely circulated and preserved forever, which is incomparable to other reproduction technologies such as film, television and photography. The production of printed matter generally goes through five technological processes: the selection or design of manuscript, the production of manuscript, the drying of printing plate, printing and post-press processing.