Every kind of print pieces that your business organization may require have a corresponding Toronto printing and finishing services that you can take good advantage of. You may have a need for an oversized billboard signage and frame or you may be needing a handful of pamphlets and leaflets. Your project may need them to have vibrant and dynamic colors or it may need only black and white prints. Regardless of nature or the purpose that you have for your printing project, if they are for marketing your brand or promoting your new services, your best line of action is to take advantage of working it out with a reputable commercial printing company. Commercial printing firms are known to utilize digital printing technology which helping them produce sharp documents with great looking images but at the same comes with a reasonable price, too.
If you are not too familiar with the on-goings of the printing industry, the process of performing value-added operations after an image/document has been printed or after the ink has been applied on a printing paper is called or known as the “finishing” phase. As the word itself denotes, it is all about the refining of the final product so that the final printed image will be blemish or smudge free and immaculately clean. Aside from this, there are several finishing operations that can be performed right after the printing phase comes off (offline).
The majority of printing firms in Canada have their own dedicated internal post-print finishing teams. The main function of these internal groups is to help out on enhancing the visuals and improving the aesthetic value of their printed pieces. Since bindery operations comprise a greater subset of finishing work, these printing firms would use a convenient catch-all term “Finishing and Binding” or Finishing and Bindery” to refer to all sorts of post-printing activities that they do.
Here are some of the common printing services that can be classified under the Finishing category:
Scoring - This process involves making a crease on the paper, to make it easily foldable and without much effort to make in doing so. It is helpful if you want to improve how the fold will look like since there is going to be a consistent guideline that you can follow. This technique is mostly used on cardstock and heavyweight papers.
Laminating - This process has something to do with bonding a clear, transparent film of plastic over a printed material so that it can be protected against smudges, scratches, moisture, wrinkles, or stains. This technique is useful in the sense that it improves the durability of your printed pieces. Aside from which, it also enhances the vibrancy of colors of your prints. Lamination technique is widely accepted for use in printed materials and they must be durable enough against heavy use like flip charts, educational materials, bar and restaurant menus, book covers, maps, or consumer displays.
Perforating - With this procedure, you will need to make very fine holes on cardstock or paper, and usually done in a straight line. This will help allow a part of the printed piece to be detached easily by the hand. There are many purposes for this technique such as ID cards, coupons, remittance slips, and response cards.
Die-cutting - This technique is making use of a thin sharp blade pre-formed into a particular size and shape or outline so that it can be used to cut cardstock, paper, label stock, or any other substrates you use to make different kinds of shapes.
Cutting and Trimming - With this technique, you will make use of a sharp shear or blade to deliberately reduce a printed piece to a desired size and shape. Typical examples of which is removing the excessive amount of paper along crop marks, segregating printed pieces as multiple images with every sheet. This is also a practical technique you can use if you have a book and want to trim its open edges so that its pages can be properly aligned.
Aqueous Coating - This is a clear, water-based coat that you can apply to your printed pieces. The main purpose of this technique is to help protect the paper and the printed ink on it against abrasions and scuffs.
Binding - This is a very broad term to use if you want to describe the gathering and later on fastening together of segregated sheets. Binding is not a complicated process and can be as simple as putting a single staple through one of the corners of a piled set of documents. Binding is usually involved in the production or creation of durable booklets and books. Well, known techniques in binding includes saddle-stitching, perfect binding, coil/spiral binding, and wire-o binding.
All of the above mentioned Toronto printing and finishing services have a purpose to deliver on their own. Getting yourself acquainted with what they are and how they are made can help you decide which among them would be suitable for your printing and finishing needs.