Digital Prepress and Industry Commonalities, Understanding + Design
In this lecture I cover the key differences as well as pros and cons for the primary methods of printing today. In addition, this lecture covers what commonalities there are across the different printing methods, and how those commonalities play out between both digital and traditional imaging.
00:00 Introduction
01:28 Common Printing Terms
05:14 Types Of Printing Overview
07:23 Letterpress Printing Overview
11:04 Flexographic Printing Overview
15:04 Gravure Printing Overview
18:28 Digital Printing Overview
20:21 Screen Printing Overview
26:27 Offset Lithographic Printing
29:45 Commonalities Between Project Specs
34:42 What Are Separations?
36:04 Difference Between Color Modes (CMYK/RGB)
42:38 Zoom In On Dot Pattern of CMYK Lithographic Print
44:38 How Pixels Work To Produce An Image
46:30 Digital and Traditional Imaging Commonalities
47:20 DPI Explanation, Resolution Demystified
52:35 DPI Adjustment Example
56:42 DPI Clues
59:18 Key Takeaways (Commonality)
Key Takeaways
• DIGITAL ISSUES: A lot of the issues with modern technology/screens are just different versions of older issues with printing/paper.
• 2 W's: Much of printing today is about knowing when/why to ask for something, less about who/when/where it was invented, made, or utilized.
• IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK: Determine where and how a design will be used to figure out much of the setup requirements.
Links and references for additional research:
Glossary of Printing and Substrate Terms:
https://mgxdigital.com/glossary-of-pr...
Letterpress Printing:
• An Introduction to Letterpress Printi...
Flexography Printing:
• What is Flexographic Printing?
• Flexographic Printing Basics
Gravure / Rotogravure:
• Rotogravure Printing Machine
Digital Printing:
• How does a large format digital print...
Screen Printing:
• Screen Print Your Own T-shirts // How...
Offset Lithographic Printing:
• How Offset Printing Works
Additive Color Process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additiv...
Subtractive Color Process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtrac...
What Is The Pantone Color System:
https://www.pantone.com/color-systems...
Color Separations:
https://www.mmprint.com/full-color-pr...
Different Screen Resolutions:
https://david-smith.org/displays/
Images, Pixels, and RGB:
• Images, Pixels and RGB
