Detailed process flow of printing

Printing is divided into three stages:

Pre-press → pre-print work generally refers to photography, design, production, typesetting, and output film proofing.

Intermediate printing → refers to the work in the middle of printing, and the process of printing finished products by printing machine.

Post-press → refers to the post-printing work, which generally refers to the post-processing of printed matter, including gluing (laminating), UV, oiling, beer, bronzing, embossing, mounting, binding and cutting. , mainly used for publicity and packaging printed matter.

Extended data:

Graphic Arts (also known as graphic communication) is a technology to transfer ink to the surface of paper, textiles, plastics, leather and other materials by making plates, inking and pressing manuscripts such as words, pictures, photos and anti-counterfeiting, so as to copy the contents of manuscripts in batches. Printing is the process of transferring the approved printing plate to the substrate through printing machinery and special ink.

In the national standard GB 9851.1-1990, the definition of printing is: "Printing refers to the process of transferring graphic information from the manuscript to the substrate by printing plate or other means."

For this reason, the latest national standard GB/T985 1. 1-2008 defines printing as "the replication process of transferring colorants/pigments (such as ink) to the substrate by using analog or digital image carriers."

References:

Printing-Baidu Encyclopedia