What is printing? What are the equipment used for printing? How many printing methods are there?

1. Printing: refers to the use of printing plates or other means of transferring the graphic information on the original (analog or digital information) to the substrate process technology, is a form of color or pigment in the substrate to record information on the original process technology.

2. Classification: different classification criteria can be divided into different categories, the more popular is according to the "characteristics of the printing plate classification"

Lithographic printing

Letterpress (flexographic)

Intaglio

Perforated (screen printing)

Transparencies of the printing process are also used in the printing process. p>3. Equipment: pre-press equipment, printing equipment, post-press processing equipment

Pre-press equipment: laser phototypesetting machine, electric separator, color desktop publishing system, scanner, etc.

Printing equipment: lithographic press, letterpress, gravure, perforation printing machine,

Post-printing processing equipment: foil stamping machine, die-cutting machine, laminating machine, bindery linkage, etc.

Post-printing equipment: stamping machine, die-cutting machine, laminating machine, bindery linkage, etc.