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Offset Lithography – Printing to you and me! – Part 6 – 20th April 2009

Experienced single colour litho machine minders from the 70s will also remember those stressful days when it was paramount to get all four process colours down in one day to avoid dreaded paper stretch problems, a common happening in litho printing due to the use of water. These jobs were often produced on a press that would run at a maximum 6000 sheets an hour to maintain good register. In the late 70s, two hour long press make readies were commonplace, without densitometers for a colour guide, or automated plate skewing and using manual ink duct settings. All that was needed in those days was study spanner, a set of progressives and a good eye for colour guidance, a fair wind and a lot of luck if you were to get all four sides of a 10,000 run brochure off in one day.

To be continued…

See parts one, two, three, four and five of this blog – Offset Lithography - Printing to you and me!

See our recent Design of the Times Blog Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5

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