by Ira Blacker | Jul 12, 2013 | WEB PRINTING
In a tight economy when you print as part of your marketing strategy the issue of controlling costs can be paramount. While there are many things you can do in order to keep costs down, such as reducing paper weight, less pages, etc. there is one item that can greatly...
by Ira Blacker | Mar 4, 2013 | WEB PRINTING
Believe it or not it is newsprint as newspaper printing uses a stock that is one of the few that is 100% recycled from paper that previously was printed on. Yes there are other papers available but they are either suitable for sheet fed printing and not web or come...
by Ira Blacker | Jun 15, 2012 | WEB PRINTING
The sheer majority of commercial printing for catalogs, magazines or books is on an offset printing press. Therefore for the purpose of this article, I will exclude any reference to digital printing in its pure form, which is solely utilized for small runs and in...
by Ira Blacker | Jun 1, 2012 | COMMERCIAL PRINTING TIPS, PRINTING COMPANY, WEB PRINTING
Let’s spend some time talking about the images required for the commercial printing of magazines, catalogs, posters, books and other items produced by commercial printing companies. More to the point let’s discuss what is required vs. some of the horrific images that...
by Ira Blacker | May 11, 2012 | WEB PRINTING
Web printing is an amazing technology. It is fast, given the right parameters it is cheap and with today’s modern high speed web presses, you cannot tell the difference in quality between web printing and sheet fed printing, except maybe for the glossier sheet from...
by Ira Blacker | May 2, 2012 | WEB PRINTING
Web offset printing differs from commercial sheet fed printing primarily in three ways: 1- It prints on continuous feeding roll paper and 2- It prints at extremely high speeds, much faster than a sheet fed press. 3- Web printing presses in most cases fold the...