What Is Lithographic Printing

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In the modern age printing firms over their customers two main forms of printing, either digital or lithographic printing. Many of you will already have heard of digital printing, but lithographic printing is something that many people outside the printing industry know very little about.
The process of lithographic printing starts with images being put onto plates, plates that are generally either paper or aluminium. Paper is a much cheaper option, but the results are not so good, though still perfectly acceptable, whereas aluminium plates are more expensive, but they produce far better results and last for a longer period of time.

Also during the lithographic printing process only four colours are used and they are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black, or as they are more commonly known in the trade CMYK. All four of these colours are then mixed together to make virtually any other colour you can think.
Lithographic printing offers a far superior finish to digital printing and is used in producing newspapers, posters, books and maps for instance, in fact any printing that requires large volumes to be produced. ...
... Flyers, postcards, business cards, compliment slips and letterheads are also a few examples of where lithographic printing techniques and processes are used. Lithographic printing is also a very efficient process once it has been set up and that is why many printing companies choose to use this method these days rather than digital printing.

As well as producing a superior finish and being more efficient lithographic printing is extremely cost effective too, so again you can see why many companies are choosing to print their materials this way.

If your company is looking for cheaper methods of printing, but methods that produce better results it would pay you to contact your local lithographic printing company now. You can easily find your nearest supplier via the internet and once you do ask them to pay you a visit and show you examples of what they can do for you and your business. New posters and magazines could be just what your business needs to get noticed and it will all be down to a process known as lithographic printing.