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Let's face it by definition printers, print, and what they use to print are printing presses.  These machines are the core of any printing operation and if someone tells you they are not, they shouldn't call themselves printers.  Unlike computer printers and copying machines, presses are massive yet precision machines which are built to last. The typical life span of a press is hundreds of millions of impressions (copies) and if well maintained they can remain in service for a decade or more. 

Our pressroom is very well equipped with modern high quality presses in a wide variety of sizes and configurations.  Variety is an important benefit to our customers because it gives us versatility in choices of on what press to print a job.  Having the correct press allows us to pick the right press to print your job economically.  We have two color and four or more color presses in 2 up, 4 up and 8 up sizes. 

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Perfector

A press which is capable of printing both sides of the sheet in a single pass through the press.  This is accomplished in one of two ways.  The first method used in sheetfed presses is two print the sheet on one or more units then a perfecting unit tumbles the sheet over and the sheet is printed on the opposite side on the following unit(s). This technique is similar to those use by copiers and printers with duplexing capabilities.  The second method, most commonly used on web (roll fed) presses, is to print both sides of the sheet simultaneously with printing units above and below the paper as it passes through the press. This is commonly called blanket-to-blanket perfecting.

Heatset

A heatset web press is one that uses rapid heating and then cooling to dry the ink on the paper.  Because of the high speeds of web presses this forced drying is required to keep the ink from smearing and marking as it passes through the folder at the end of the press.  Heatset is required to print on coated paper and produces much cleaner product on uncoated papers.  The most common example of non-heatset printing are newspapers, this is why even days after a newspaper is printed it will leave ink on your fingers from handling.

Many sheetfed press are equipped with dryers usually infrared or UV.  These type of dryers simply heat the sheet in order to speed up the normal drying process of conventional offset inks and are not considered to be heatset.

Last modified: September 19, 2001