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Final Exam Flashcards

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Relief Printing

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  • Flexographic or letterpress
  • raised rubber, plastic, wood or metal
  • Plastic Bags and six uses (separate card)
  • Johann Guttenberg, 1450
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Intaglio Printing

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  • Roto Gravure
  • Sunken Cylinder
  • More than one million impressions, high quality magazines, packaging, fake wood
  • Karl Kleach, 1875
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Screen Printing

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  • Silk Screen/Seriography
  • Stencil
  • T-shirts, irregularly shaped objects
  • Created in the orient, 1300’s
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Lithographic Printing

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  • Offset/”Stone writing”
  • Uses a flat plate that one part like H2O and ink
  • Business cards, memo pads, textbooks
  • Alois Senefelder, 1798
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Electrostatic

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  • Digital/non-impact
  • Drum that is positively charged, negatively charged ink
  • Xerox, quick copy
  • Chester Carlson, 1937
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Printer’s Measurements

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72 Point = 1 Inch
6 Picas = 1 Inch
12 points = 1 Pica

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Uses for Printer’s Measurements

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Inches are for page dimensions
Picas are for line length
Points are for type size

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8
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Film Structure

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1) Anti-halationon Backing
2) Base + order of chemical development
3) Emulsion Silver Halides

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Emulsion + Order of Chemical Development

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  1. Developer (Base)
  2. Step Bath (Acid)
  3. Fix (Hardens)
  4. Wash at 68F or 20C
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VDP

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Variable Data Printing

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Line Copy

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Composed entirely of lines

ex. sketches

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Continuous Tone Copy

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Consists of images in a variety of tones

ex. photograph

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Halftone Copy

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A reproduction of continuous tone color in magazine or book

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Halftone Screen

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Uses dpi, lpi, ppi. For continuous color

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Tint Screen

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A tint that breaks solid areas into uniform series of dots. % of dotes for line copy.

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Lithographic Plates

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Consist of hydrophilic (accepts water) and hydrophobic areas (Repels water and accepts ink)

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CTP plates

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Computer to Plate (used in lab for notepads)

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18
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XXX

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Gripper Margin

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Press Overview

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1) Feed
2) Registration
3) Print Unit
4) Delivery

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Types of Cylinders of Offset Presses

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1) Plate: Right reading
2) Blanket: soft rubber, wrong reading
3) Impression: Metal

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Principle of Offset

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Water and ink don’t mix

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Duplicators

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Any offset lithographic machine that can feed a maximum of 11x17 inches and minimum of 3x5. They can print 5,000 to 10,000 impressions per hour.

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True Press

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Is an 4-unit press and can feed a sheet size of 54x77 and a minimum sheet size of 11x17. Much larger unit

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pH Scale

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Metric scale that shows how acidic (14) or alkaline (0, vinegar) )substance are. It stand for the potential of hydrogen.

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Successive Feeder (Gap)

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Mechanical fingers pick up one sheet from the top of the pile and direct it into the registration unit

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Stream Feeder (Overlap)

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Overlaps sheets on the registration board and slows the rate of sheet movement significantly

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Delivery Units

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Gravity delivery: is the simpler or less dependable of the two designs

Chan Gripper Delivery: the most popular delivery unit; the press sheet is pulled through the printing and delivery unit to a different set of grippers on the chain of the delivery unit.

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Substrate

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Any base material that receives an image

29
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Ink

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Is pigments dispersed in a vehicle with additives

30
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Basic Ink Properties

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1) Viscosity: Body of ink
2) Tack: Stickiness
3) Drying Quality

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Viscosity

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High: Thick and Heavy, screen and offset

Low: light and fluid, flexographic and gravure

32
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Drying Quality

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Hardens by:

1) Oxidation: combine with oxygen
2) Penetration: absorbed into the substrate
3) Evaporation: Most of the ink evaporates leaving emulsions onto the paper

33
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Rheology

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Science of Flow

34
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Three Main Ingredients

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1) Pigments: Black or White
2) Vehicles: Grouped by how they dry
3) Additives: Characteristics-wax, scuffing, dry
i. e: reducers, driers, binding varnish, waxes, cornstarch, anti-skinning agents

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Thixotropic Inks

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Rubber based ink, heavy and stiff in can, fluid on press

36
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Trapping Inks

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refers to the degree of ink transfer onto wet and dry ink films already on the substrate

37
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Transparent

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Pigments that allow light to pass through, four process colors

38
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Opaque

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Light can’t pass through

39
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PMS

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Pantone Matching System: a universal method for specifying and mixing colors.

40
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Two Major Processes in Making Paper

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Pulp Manufacturing, Mate paper

41
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Slurry

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Cellulose fibers suspended in water

42
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Types of woods used to make paper

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Softwoods: Coniferous

Hardwoods: Deciduous

43
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Fourdrinier Machine

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1) Head box: Slurry is prepared in large mixing vat
2) Mix is poured onto a moving mesh screen
3) Drying End

44
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Grain

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Cellulose fibers align in direction of screen movement

- Always fold with the grain if possible

45
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How to Weigh Paper

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Substance weight and basic weight = weight of 500 sheets of paper in the parent size.

500 sheets=1 ream
M Weight = 1,000 sheets
C Weight=100 sheets

46
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Basic Size

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Coarse paper: Industrial (corrugated)

Fine paper: Printing

Largest in the family of fine papers: book or offset

Writing/Cover/Bristol/Other: ???????????

47
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C1S

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coated one side

48
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C2S

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coated two side

49
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coated vs. uncoated paper

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claylike material fills porous surface vs. open porus newsprint

50
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Ts’ai Lun

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hand made modern made paper in AD 105 until 1798 automated Fourdrinier

51
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Uncoated paper

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newsprint, ground wood

52
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Screen Printing

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oldest form of printing originated in the orient

53
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Stencil

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1) Hand-cut
2) Tush and glue
3) photographic

A- indirect: expose emulsion then put on mesh
B- direct: emulsion put directly on screen then exposed

54
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Screen Fabric

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mono filment or multi filment

55
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How to squeegee

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45 degree slant or angle drag

56
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2 color screen printing

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Light color first

57
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Dimensionally Stable Screens

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wood or metal

58
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Most Dangerous Area

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Bindery

59
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Folding

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  • Can be done parallel or right angle
  • Can be done by:
    1. Hand: bone
    2. Machine: knife
    3. Buckle: our lab
60
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Signature

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a large single press sheet folded and trimmed to form a book.

61
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Bindings

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1) Adhesive: (a. Padding b. Perfect c. Patent)
2) Side: (a. Staple/stitch/looseleaf b. comb: mechanical/wire c. side sewn
3) Saddle: (a. Wire stitch, b. self cover, c. case bound)

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Gravure Printing

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jagged saw tooth edge to it

63
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Flexo Printing

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halo edge

64
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Offset Printing

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even edge

65
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Screen Printing

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thick or varying ink deposit

66
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Digital Printing

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splatter/spatter, even edge

GPS 1500 (3 decks)

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