A printing machine is any machinery which includes printing ink on a cloth or a paper. On the basis of scope of work, various machines are used for carrying out the process of printing.

Here, Vendaxo introduce the different types of printing machines in India

1. Offset Printing Machines

2. Flexographic Printing Machines

3. Screen Printing Machines

4. Digital Printers

5. Thermal Printers

6. Rotogravure

1. Offset Printing Machines

Offset printer is the most commonly used technique of printing through which an inked image transfers from the plate to rubber blanket and then to the surface of offset printing machine.

Benefits:

· The modern offset press is quick with the printers reaching to about 18000 sheets every hour

· They also produce good quality prints and the images are quite sharp

· Printing plates experience a longer life as there is no contact between the surface and the plate

· When the printing needs to be done in commercial quantity, this technique of printing is cheap

2. Flexography

Flexography is the modern day version for letter press printing. This technique of printing employs a flexible photopolymer plates for printing which is wrapped around the rotating cylinders on the web press. These inked plates have raised pictures and rotate at a very high speed for transferring the images to substrate.

Benefits:

· It permits for a huge variety of shades

· It supports oil as well as water based ink. The water based inks are non-toxic

3. Screen printing

In this technique of printing, a mesh is mainly used for transferring on the substrate, except on some of the areas which are made impermeable to ink by the blocking stencil. Only one single color is used for printing. Thus, different screens may be used for producing multicolored images or designs.

Benefits:

· Good quality output can be expected as compared to the digital printers

· Considered durable for the long terms output

4. Digital printing

Digital printer is the machine which prints the digital based image directly on different media substrates. No printing plate is required unlike the offset printing. The digital files like desktop publishing data or PDFs could be directly sent to digital printing platforms for printing on the photo paper, paper, fabric, canvas cardstock, synthetics, etc.

Benefits

· Easy and cheap to maintain

· Different types of colours could be printed

· Clean transfer of the images

· It is designed mainly for flat surface and it also doesn’t protrude

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