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OK, so now you know how the market and organization
works but how does it all come together? There
are three main processes to occur to get the idea
to print to the customer:
- Pre-press - From design to production of the
image carrier
- Press - The process for transferring image
to substrate. electronic or conventional
- Post Press - fi nal manufacturing processes;
folding, conversion, binding, die-cutting, etc.
As printing is changing today, the following
diagrams depict the fl ow of a job from various
plants; conventional, digital and a combination.
It takes a lot of work to get the idea a customer
has through the printing pro-cess and to them
in the way they envisioned!
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