The Complete Book on Printing Technology with Process Flow Diagrams, Plant Layouts and Machinery Details (Offset, Gravure, Flexographic, Security, Web Offset and Pad Printing) 3rd Revised Edition

Author	NIIR Board of Consultants & Engineers	ISBN	9788194099512
Code	ENI111	Format	Paperback
Price: Rs	1895	US$	58
Pages:	512	Published	2024
Publisher	Asia Pacific Business Press Inc.
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Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing. Printing technology market is growing, due to technological proliferation along with increasing applications of commercial printing across end users. In India, the market for printing technology is at its nascent stage; however offers huge growth opportunities in the coming years. The major factors boosting the growth of offset printing press market are the growth of packaging industry across the globe, increasing demand in graphic applications, the wide range of application in various industry, and industrialization. The offset printing press market is projected to register healthy growth due to new and advanced technologies are driving the introduction of new product lined of offset printing press from large and medium manufacturers which responsible to register high productivity of offset printing press, and offers better user experience to the end-users and also reduce operational costs. This book is dedicated to the Printing Industry. In this book, the details of printing methods and applications are given. The book throws light on the materials required for the same and the various processes involved. This popular book has been organized to provide readers with a firmer grasp of how printing technologies are revolutionizing the industry. The major content of the book are the beginning of printing, the printing industry, sheet-fed offset printing, printing processing, offset press, modern printing process, pad printing application, gravure printing, web offset printing, the flexographic printing, security printing, process flow diagrams, layouts and photographs of machinery with supplier’s contact details. A total guide to manufacturing and entrepreneurial success in one of today's most printing industry. This book is one-stop guide to one of the fastest growing sectors of the printing industry, where opportunities abound for manufacturers, retailers, and entrepreneurs. This is the only complete handbook on the commercial production of printing products. It serves up a feast of how-to information, from concept to purchasing equipment.

Contents

1. Introduction

1.1 History of Printing

1.1.1 Invention of Movable Type

1.1.2 Lithography

1.1.3 Offset Printing

1.1.4 Intaglio

1.1.5 Gravure

1.1.6 Flexography

1.1.7 Screen Printing

1.1.8 Digital Printing

1.1.9 Hybrid Printing

1.2 Uses and Applications of Printing

1.3 Types of Printing

1.3.1 Offset Lithography

1.3.2 Digital Printing

1.3.3 Flexography

1.3.4 Gravure Printing

1.3.5 Screen Printing

1.3.6 Letterpress Printing

1.3.7 Thermal Printing

1.3.8 3D Printing

1.4 Structure of the Printing Industry

1.4.1 Pre-Media

1.4.2 Prepress

1.4.3 Press (Printing)

1.4.4 Postpress/Finishing

2. How to Start Printing Business

3. Plant Layout Description of Printing Business

4. Gravure Printing

4.1 History of Gravure Printing

4.2 Principles of Gravure Printing Process

4.2.1 Intaglio/Gravure Method

4.3 Advantages of Gravure

4.4 Limitations of Gravure

4.5 Characteristics

4.6 Main Sections of Gravure Printing Machine

4.6.1 Unwind Section

4.6.2 Printing Section

4.6.3 Drying Section

4.6.4 Rewind Section

4.7 Gravure Image Carrier Preparation

4.7.1 Hand Engraving and Printing

4.7.2 Gravure Image Carriers

4.7.3 Manufacturer of Gravure Cylinders

4.7.4 Gravure Cylinder Imaging

4.7.5 Gravure Engraving

4.8 Gravure Cylinder Preparation Methods

4.8.1 Preparing of Gravure Cylinder by Conventional
Method or Carbon Tissue Method

4.8.2 Electronic/Electromechanical Engraving of Gravure Cylinders

4.8.3 Laser Engraving/Laser Cutting Process

4.9 Structure of Gravure Cylinder

4.9.1 Gravure Cylinder

4.9.2 Gravure Cylinder Components

4.9.3 Copper Plating and Polishing

4.9.4 Reusing the Cylinders

4.9.5 Ballard Shell Cylinders

4.10 Gravure Drying System

4.10.1 Gravure Drying Chamber

4.10.2 Gravure Solvent Recovery System

4.10.3 Higher LELs due to Solvent Recovery

4.10.4 Other Environmental-Friendly Solvent Removal/Reduction Systems Incineration (Thermal
Oxidation)

4.11 Doctor Blade – Structure, Types, Mechanism

4.11.1 Doctor Blade

4.11.2 Structure and Mechanism of Gravure Doctor Blade

4.11.3 Types of Doctor Blade

4.12 Impression Roller - Structure, Types, Mechanisms

4.12.1 Structure and Mechanism of Gravure Impression
Roller

4.12.2 Types of Gravure Impression Roller

4.13 Gravure Presses

4.13.1 Press Configurations for Packaging

4.13.2 Gravure Label Presses

4.13.3 Gravure Publication Presses

4.14 Solvent Based Inks, Water Based Inks, Uv and Eb Inks

4.14.1 Gravure Solvent Based Inks

4.14.2 Gravure Water-Based Inks

4.14.3 Gravure Uv Curing Inks

4.14.4 Eb-Curing Inks and Coatings

5. Screen Printing

5.1 History of Screen-Printing

5.2 Principles of Screen Printing Process

5.3 Procedure for Screen Printing

5.4 The Screen Printing Process Offers Several Advantages

5.5 Applications of Screen Printing

5.5.1 Screen Printing on Flat Surfaces

5.5.2 Screen Printing on Curved Surfaces

5.6 Main Sections of a Flatbed Screen Printing Machine

5.6.1 Frame

5.6.2 Base

5.6.3 Screen Fabric

5.6.4 Squeegee

5.7 Image Carriers Used for Screen Printing

5.7.1 Negative and Constructive Creation

5.7.2 Making a Screen Frame

5.8 Various Methods of Preparing Image Carriers for Screen Printing

5.8.1 Preparing the Screen by Knife-Cut Stencil Method

5.9 Photographic Methods of Making Screen Image Carriers

5.9.1 Preparing the Screen by Gelatine Process (“Direct” Method)

5.9.2 Screen Making By Photo Sensitive Films (5-Star
Film) Method (Indirect or Transfer Method)

5.9.3 Chromaline Film Method of Screen Making (Direct/Indirect Method)

5.10 Mesh Selection

5.10.1 Mesh (Woven Screen Printing Fabric)

5.10.2 Materials Used for Screen Printing Fabrics

5.11 The Squeegee

5.12 Squeegee Selection

5.12.1 Shapes of Squeegee Blades

5.12.2 Squeegee Hardness

5.12.3 Squeegee Materials

5.13 Screen Pretreatment

5.14 Screen Stretching/Tensioning

5.14.1 Basic Steps in Screen Stretching/Tensioning

5.15 Stretching the Screen Printing Fabric

5.15.1 Manual Stretching

5.15.2 Machine Stretching

5.16 Types of Screen Printing Machines

5.16.1 Container Printing Machines

5.16.2 The Flatbed Hinged Frame Press

5.16.3 Automatic Flatbed Hinged Frame Screen Presses

5.16.4 The Rotary Screen Press

5.16.5 Carousel Machines

5.17 Screen Printing Inks

5.17.1 Components of Inks and Ink Systems

5.18 Screen Printing Ink Types

5.18.1 Decalcomanias Inks

5.18.2 Circuit Board Inks

5.18.3 Inks for Posters

5.18.4 Metallic Enamel Inks

5.18.5 Paints for Polymers

5.18.6 Glass Inks

5.18.7 Textiles and Garments: Plastisols and Emulsions

5.19 Control of Screen Printing Ink Quality

5.19.1 Appropriate Quality Control Tests for Screen Printing Inks

5.20 Typical Screen Printing Equipment

5.20.1 Printer and Films

5.20.2 Mesh Screen

5.20.3 The Inks

5.20.4 Squeegees

5.20.5 Printing Press

5.20.6 Belt Dryer

5.21 Silk Screen Printing Process

5.21.1 Design Drafting

5.21.2 Choose and Prepare the Mesh Screen

5.21.3 Expose the Emulsion Paint to Light Source

5.21.4 Prepare the Stencil

5.21.5 Prepare for Screen Printing

5.21.6 Print the Design

5.21.7 Heat-Cure and Finish the Print

5.22 Types of Screen Printing Process

5.22.1 Grayscale Printing

5.22.2 Spot-Color Printing

5.22.3 CMYK (4-Color Printing)

5.22.4 Duotone Printing

5.22.5 Half-Tone Printing

5.22.6 Simulated Process Printing

6. Flexographic Printing

6.1 History

6.2 Benefits and Drawbacks of Flexographic Printing

6.2.1 Benefits of Printing in Flexographic Form

6.2.2 The Drawbacks of Printing Flexographically

6.3 Various Substrates That Flexography Can Print On

6.3.1 Plastic Film

6.3.2 Foil

6.3.3 Corrugated Board

6.4 A Vast Variety of Inks for Flexography Use

6.4.1 Water-Based

6.4.2 Solvent-Based

6.4.3 Energy-Curable (UV & EB-Based)

6.5 Mainstream Types of Flexographic Printing Press

6.5.1 Stack Press

6.5.2 Central Impression (CI) Press

6.5.3 In-Line Pres

6.5.4 Wide-Web Press (Substrates of 21-80 Inches)

6.5.5 Narrow-Web Press (Substrates’ Length d” 20 Inches)

6.6 The Fundamentals of Flexography the Process of
Printing

6.6.1 Flexographic Printing Process

6.6.2 Main Sections of Flexography Printing Machines (Presses)

6.7 All Flexographic Presses are made up of Four Basic Sections Typically Mounted in Succession Between
Sturdy side Frames

6.7.1 Unwind Section

6.7.2 Printing Section

6.7.3 Drying Section

6.7.4 Rewind Section

6.8 Flexographic Image Carrier Preparation

6.8.1 Flexographic Plate

6.8.2 Structure of Flexographic Plate

6.9 Plate Preparation Methods

6.9.1 Rubber Plates Preparation

6.9.2 Photopolymer Flexographic Plates

6.9.3 Laser Engraving

6.10 Types of Flexo Inking Systems

6.10.1 Two-Roll Ink Metering System

6.10.2 Modified Two-Roll with a Doctor Blade Ink Metering System

6.10.3 Reverse Angle Doctor Blade Ink Metering System

6.10.4 Chambered Doctor Blade Ink Metering System

6.11 Types of Anilox Cells and Cleaning Systems

6.11.1 The Anilox Roll

6.11.2 Anilox Roll Specifications

6.12 Types of Anilox Roll Based on Cell Shapes

6.12.1 Inverted Pyramid

6.12.2 Quadrangular Cell

6.12.3 Trihelical Cell

6.13 Types of Anilox Rolls Based on Roller Surfaces

6.13.1 Laser-Engraved Ceramic Anilox Rolls

6.13.2 Conventional (Or) Mechanically Engraved Chrome
Anilox Rolls

6.14 Types of Anilox Roll Cleaning Systems

6.14.1 Roll Cleaning System

6.14.2 Jet Wash Type System

6.14.3 Powder Blasting System

6.14.4 Polymer Bead Blasting System

6.14.5 Dry Ice System

6.14.6 Laser Cleaning System

6.14.7 Ultrasonics

6.14.8 Alpha Sound

6.15 Types of Flexo Plate Cylinders

7. 3D Printing

7.1 Types of 3D Printing

7.1.1 Binder Jetting

7.1.2 Direct Energy Deposition

7.1.3 Material Extrusion

7.1.4 Material Jetting

7.1.5 Powder Bed Fusion

7.1.6 Sheet Lamination

7.1.7 VAT Photopolymerization

7.2 Different Types of 3D Printing Technologies and Their Applications

7.3 An STL File: What is it?

7.4 3D Printing Process

7.4.1 3D Modelling

7.4.2 Saving the 3D Model

7.4.3 Preparing the 3D Model for Printing

7.4.4 Checking and Saving the Print File

7.4.5 3D Printing

7.4.6 Post-Processing

7.5 How 3D Printing Works?

7.6 Key Industries Leveraging 3D Printing

7.6.1 Applications in Medicine and Dentistry

7.6.2 Defense and Aerospace

7.6.3 The Automobile Industry

7.6.4 Personal and Consumer Products

7.6.5 Aeronautics and Space Travel

7.6.6 Customized Apparel and Style

7.6.7 Culinary Arts and Food

8. Digital Printing

8.1 Types of Digital Printing

8.2 Digital Print Media and Products

8.3 Benefits of Digital Printing

8.4 Digital Printing Process

8.5 Which Type of Machinery is used in Digital Printing?

8.5.1 Prepress Stage Machinery

8.5.2 Essential Machinery for the Printing Stage

8.6 The Role of Pile Turners in Digital Printing

8.7 Digital Printing in Packaging and Labels

8.7.1 Label Presses and Corrugated Packaging Printers

8.7.2 Colour Label Presses

8.7.3 Corrugated Printers

9. Ultra Violet (UV) Printing

9.1 Benefits of UV Printing

9.2 History of UV Printing Process

9.3 Which Materials are Suitable for UV Printing?

9.4 Which Parts Make up a UV Printing Machine’s Core?

9.4.1 Printheads

9.4.2 PCB (Printed Circuit Board)

9.4.3 Curing Light

9.4.4 Machine Body

9.4.5 Guide Rail

9.4.6 The Process of Printing in Ultra-Violet (UV)

9.4.7 LED UV Printing

9.5 The UV Printing Process

10. Offset Printing Technology

10.1 The Offset Lithographic Process’s Past

10.2 Lithography and Offset Printing Fundamentals

10.3 The Offset Printing Principle

10.4 Configuration and Structure of Sheetfed Offset Press

10.4.1 Single Color Offset Press

10.4.2 Multi-Color Sheet-Fed Presses

10.4.3 Convertible Press

10.5 Types of Sheetfed Offset Press

10.5.1 Inline Press

10.5.2 Stack Type Press

10.5.3 Blanket to Blanket Press

10.5.4 Common Impression Cylinder Presses

10.6 Sheet Control and Delivery in Offset Press

10.7 Types of Automatic Feeder

10.7.1 Single Sheet Feeder or Successive Sheet Feeder

10.7.2 Stream Feeder

10.8 Feeder Head Components

10.9 Sheet Registering Devices

10.10 Early Sheet Detectors (or) Electromechanical Type
Sheet Detectors

10.11 Sheet Insertion Devices

10.12 Delivery Section

10.13 Offset Press Printing Unit

10.13.1 Establishing a Sheetfed Printing Press

10.14 Types of Blankets

10.14.1 Conventional Blanket (or) Non-Compressible Blankets

10.14.2 Compressible Blankets

10.15 Construction of Inking System

10.15.1 Roller Setting

10.15.2 Roller the Distance Between the Plate and the form Roller

10.15.3 Setting Form Roller to Oscillator

10.16 Ink System Issues

10.17 Dampening System

10.17.1 Construction of Dampening System

10.17.2 Composition of Dampening Solution

10.17.3 Dampening Solution pH

10.17.4 Conductivity of the Dampening Solution

10.17.5 Dampening System Roller Setting

10.17.6 Conventional Dampening System

10.17.7 Continuous Dampening System

10.17.8 Dahlgren Dampening System

11. Textile Printing

11.1 Textile Printing’s Historical Background

11.2 Printing Method

11.2.1 Block Printing

11.2.2 Screen Printing

11.2.3 Engaved Roller Printing

11.2.4 Transfer Printing

11.2.5 Stencilling

11.2.6 Digital Printing

11.2.7 Rotary Screen Printing

11.2.8 Direct Printing

11.2.9 Discharge Printing

11.2.10 Resist Printing

11.2.11 Ink-Jet Printing

11.2.12 Heat-Transfer Printing

11.3 Early Textile Printing Methods

11.4 Comparison Between Dyeing and Printing

11.5 Enter Digital Direct Reactive Textile Printing

11.6 Wet Printing Techniques

11.6.1 Preparation of the Print Paste

11.6.2 Printing the Fabric

11.6.3 Drying the Printed Fabric

11.6.4 Fixation of the Printed Dye or Pigment

11.6.5 Afterwashing

11.7 Printing Methods

11.7.1 Flat-Bed Screen Printing

11.7.2 Rotary Screen Printing

11.7.3 Screen Engraving

11.7.4 Laser Engraving

11.7.5 Engraved Roller Printing

11.7.6 Heat Transfer Printing

11.7.7 Digital Ink-Jet Printing

12. CTP (Computer to Plate)

12.1 What is a CTP Machine?

12.2 Technology

12.3 Computer-to-Plate Advantage

12.4 Computer to Plate versus Computer to Film

12.5 CTP Method

12.5.1 Internal Drum Imagesetters

12.5.2 External Drum Imagesetters

12.5.3 Flat-Bed Imagesetters

12.6 Types of CTP-Plates (Computer-to-Plate)

12.6.1 Photopolymer Plates

12.6.2 Silverhalogen Plates

12.6.3 Thermal Plates

12.7 Advantages of CTP vs. CTF

12.8 Disadvantages of CTP vs. CTF

12.9 CTP Process

12.9.1 Digital File Preparation

12.9.2 Computer-to-Plate Imaging

12.9.3 Plate Development

12.9.4 Mounting on the Printing Press

12.9.5 Printing

12.10 What Types Of CTP Plates

12.10.1 Silver Salt Diffusion Transfer Type

12.10.2 The Polymer Compound Type

12.10.3 Silver Salt Emulsion and Polymer Compound Composite Type

12.10.4 Spray Mask Type

12.10.5 Thermal Type

12.11 The Definition of Thermal CTP Technology

12.11.1 Classification of Thermal CTP technology

13. Pad Printing

13.1 Description of Parts

13.2 The History of Pad Printing

13.3 Pros and Cons of Pad Printing

13.4 Limitations of Pad Printing

13.5 How to Pad Print?

13.6 Basic Components of Pad Printers

13.6.1 Pad Printer

13.6.2 Pad Print Ink Cup

13.6.3 Pad Print Ink

13.6.4 Printing Pad

13.6.5 Pad Printing Plate

13.7 Pad Printing Vs. Screen Printing: What’re The Differences?

13.8 Which Industry Applications Print With Pad Printing?

13.9 Factors to Consider During Pad Printing

14. Web Offset Printing

14.1 Design of Web Machines

14.2 Reel Stand Unit

14.3 Web Control Unit

14.4 Printing Units

14.5 Main Parts of Printing Unit

14.6 Delivery Operations

14.7 Ancillary Operations by Delivery Unit

14.8 Colour and Its Reproduction

14.9 Classification of Colours

14.9.1 Primary Colours

14.9.2 Secondary Colours

14.9.3 Tertiary Colours

14.9.4 Influence of Colours

14.10 Terminology Related to Colour

14.11 Quality Control in Printing

14.12 During Printing

14.13 After Printing

15. Security Printing

15.1 Credit Cards

15.2 Caliper and Dimensions

15.3 Hologram

15.4 Hologram Types

15.5 Uses

15.6 Numbering with Micr Ink on Rotary Presses

15.6.1 Ink Agitation

15.6.2 Heat Fountains

15.6.3 Distribution of Ink

15.6.4 Form Rollers and Impression Cylinders

15.6.5 Cam Setting

15.6.6 Setting form Rollers

15.6.7 Impression Cylinders

15.6.8 Setting Impression

15.6.9 Speeds

15.7 Methods in Security Printing

15.7.1 Substrates in Security Printing

15.7.2 Security Inks

15.7.3 RFID Hidden Security Features

15.7.4 RFID Tag Categories

15.7.5 RFID Tag Shapes and Sizes

15.7.6 Printing

15.8 Prospective Developments in Rfid Tags and Security Printing

16. High Security Printing for Banknote

16.1 Specialized Substrates

16.2 Intaglio Printing

16.3 Watermarks

16.4 Security Inks

16.5 Holograms and Kinegrams

16.6 Microprinting

16.7 See-through Registers

16.8 Serial Numbers

16.9 UV Features

16.10 Digital Authentication

17. Security Printing for Tax Labels, and Other Securities

17.1 Specialized Inks and Dyes

17.2 Substrate Security

17.3 Intaglio Printing

17.4 Microprinting

17.5 Holograms and Foils

17.6 Guilloche Patterns

17.7 Serial Numbers and Barcodes

17.8 Digital Authentication

17.9 Implementation Considerations

18. BIS Standards

19. Plant Layout, Process Flow Chart & Diagram

20. Photographs of Plant and Machinery with Suppliers Contact Details

• Rotary Screen Printing Machine

• Flexographic Roll to Roll Printing Machine

• High Speed Flexo Printing Machine

• 3 Color Satellite Unit RottaSpeed Web Offset Machine

• Offset Printing Machine

• Pad Printing Machine

• Automatic Heat Press

• Black and White Digital Print Production System

• Flexographic Printing Machine

• Fully Automatic Printing Head

• Single Colour Electro Pneumatic Pad Printing Machine

• Manual Pad Printing Machines

• Label Printing Press

• Offset Machines

• Automatic Heat Transfer Machine

• Semi-Automatic Screen Printing Machine

• Flatbed Screen Printing Machine

• Multi Cage Screen Stretching Machine

• Digital LED UV Flatbed Printing Machine

• Mini Offset Printing Machine

• Rotogravure Printing Machine

• CTP Offset Printing Computer to Plate Machine

• Four Color Offset Machine

• 5 Color B1 Offset Lithographic Printing Machine with Spot Coating

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