summary of print presentation

• Choose a colour mode for your design, full colour or spot colour and weather it will be mono tone ,duo tone etc.
• Now this has been chosen you can choose which method you will print your work. eg offset lithograph, flexograph, silk screen or thermograph.
• now you can choose the stock you would like to print on as some printing methods are better for some stocks than others. eg if you were printing onto sand paper you would have to silk screen as running sand paper through a lithograph may cause damage to the machine. If you were printing a detailed full colour print on to newsprint a lithogrpah machine would be better than flexograph machine as more detail is kept in the aluminum paltes compared to the rubber plates.
• Each design needs to be considered differently when sent to print. And you can also keep control over your work if you know how the final outcome will be printed.

Im quite interested into the finishing stage of print where varnish's and coating's can be applied as well as embossing, engraving and di cutting. Some thing i want to find more about is thermography where a powder is mixed in with the ink and when the ink dries it creates a raised surface effects. I would also like to look into di cutting and foil covering.