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Many important tasks in a business such as maintaining flow of information within the company and marketing the products of the company need printing service. Hence it is helpful to learn about the basic working of the commonly used printing process called offset printing.

Offset printing is so popular among printing service providers and clients because for large quantities, it is more economical than other options. The customers giving big printing orders are advised by the printers to opt for offset printing because of this reason.

The ink used during offset printing has oil as the medium and is insoluble in water. The offset printing is so called because the designs are transmitted in an indirect way from the plates to the paper by use of rubber blankets as the agents.

First step is to develop the images. Film negatives were employed in the earlier times for making images and then duplicating them to aluminum based printing plates. But, a modern printing company would now prepare the plates directly by making use of an image setting system. This plate is then put on a cylinder in the proper configuration. Water and ink, in that order, is spread on the image plates. The ink is poured over the image and to restrict it from overflowing, a thin layer of water is spread over the remaining part of the plate.

The image is then taken from the plates to the rubber blanket spun on another cylinder, so that it is inverted. Afterwards, sheets of paper of required dimensions are put together and the rubber blankets transfer the image to the sheets on a third cylinder, where it comes out as the correct side.

Last steps of the printing job involve things such as stapling, pasting or arranging the printed sheets according to the instructions of the customer, and any printing company should easily manage these.

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