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51 Cards in this Set
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What is the largest sector by volume? |
Offset Lithography |
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this is not the fastest growing |
Offshoot lithographiy |
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this have biggest revenue, no long term future is not improving |
oFFSET litho |
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what is new growth and marketing |
digitial and flexo |
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this is qualities of _________ versatile, growth and more colors |
injet |
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what toner is good for short runs |
Xergraphy ( Laser toner ) |
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True or false: inkjets come in consumer form and what is it |
true home printer |
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True or false: inkjet has color proofing |
true |
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True or false: inkjets come in a large format |
true banner sinage |
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True or false: inkjects are a flat bed |
true |
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this has a raised surface |
Flexo Printing Applications |
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What type of printiing uses a raised image blanket/surface |
Flexographic |
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This has a huge range of substrtes we can print on
List the surfaces |
Flexo
Corrugated Flexible Materials Plastic Wrapping |
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What does each anilox roll do? |
Picks up diff amount of ink |
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how can u change the amount of ink on Flexo unit |
with ink keys n anilox roll |
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what are some factors that can cause ink not to transfer properly on a flexo unit |
too fast too viscous ink from plate to anilox |
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what does BCM |
Billion Cupic Micron
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What is CPI |
Cell per inch |
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what doe the line screens in flexo refer to |
per square inch |
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what do u need for flexo in order to have the back of the plate to harder |
Lamps
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If to place the plates under the lamps for too long on flexo what will happen to the image area |
too long = too hard and effect the image area |
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what is the standard height from the top to the bottom for flexo |
67 thousandths |
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what are the 3 main measures for flexo |
Caliper floor releif |
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the plates for flexo can either be |
Photopolymer or rubber |
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photopoly PLATES are exposed by |
UV LIGHT |
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For photopoly PLATES what does the chemical cause |
polymer to ink and haren |
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photopoly PLATES what are top and bottom exposures for |
bottom for support top for image |
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Press and prepress: how much more can the anilox be than the halftone LPI |
4 X EG 480 CPI FOR 120 LPI
LPI X 4 = CPI |
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Press and prepress: When making PDF to plate what must you choose properly |
Screen ruling |
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Press and prepress: what is the anilox roll relationship to screen ruling |
4 tiny cells to one raised image dot
4 anilox cell = 1 image cell |
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Press and prepress: what does gravure have similar and what does it not have |
has the same engraved cylinder but no printing plate |
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Press and prepress: for gravure what would the cylinder have in the image area |
image area that is engraved |
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Press and prepress: for gravure what does ink in the cylinder act as |
image plate |
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what does lPI stand for |
LINES PER INCH OF THE HALF TONE SCREEN
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Press and prepress: Higher lpi= |
smaller print dots with better visual quality |
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Plate making Technology: what does CDI FOR |
cyrel digital imager |
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Photopolymer Plate Making: what does LAMS stand for and do we have it in lab |
Laser Ablated MASK yes we do have it |
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Photopolymer Plate Making: For Lams what should you start with |
New plates Clean and has uniform black sheen |
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Photopolymer Plate Making: for LAM what where does the light hit |
Light hits the bottom to harden and fill the base |
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Photopolymer Plate Making: where does LAM turn over too |
turns over to CDI |
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Photopolymer Plate Making: For LAM what does the laser do |
burns away and vaporizes the black carbon mask to create the counter image |
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Photopolymer Plate Making: for LAM what happens to image areas that are not lasered, where does the laser go |
stay raised not lasered turns off in that area |
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Photopolymer Plate Making: how long does plate making process take |
1.5 |
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Photopolymer Plate Making: for laser engraved what happens |
strong laser does all the steps of a lam |
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Photopolymer Plate Making: explain film exposed |
photographic film makes a mask with film and exposes thru them |
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Prepress and press- Bar Codes what are the 3 components |
orientation size magnification |
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Prepress and press- Bar Codes what are bar codes printed with |
bars running with the paper |
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Prepress and press- Bar Codes will the barcode always print perfectly |
no |
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Prepress and press- Bar Codes if the barcode is printed properly what will happen |
even if bars are stretched it will show the same product |
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Prepress and press- Bar Codes how may the bar distort |
if the bar is sideways |
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Prepress and press- Bar Codes what is the min size of a barcode |
use of program because they are legal require |