Litho Printers
Charterprint are experienced Litho printers based in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Our lithographic equipment is ideally suited to medium and longer print runs where you need a high quality finish.
Customers use our litho printing services for letterheads, marketing materials, corporate brochures and leaflets. But we can use our litho printing presses for a wide variety of different jobs.
Lithographic Printing Explained
Litho is the process taking an image from a flat surface called a plate. This image is put on a cylinder which rotates then is made contact to number of ink rollers (Form Rollers) where upon a small layer ink is transferred on to the plate. The Plate is then made contact to a rubber compound called a blanket; this blanket is then put on to a cylinder. The blanket is what carries the image that is the transferred to the paper. This term is called offset litho.
Four colour process would need four printing heads each plate carrying images in a dot format, these dots are in four colours CYMK, cyan, yellow, magenta and Black.
If you look very closely to a colour photograph printed in a magazine you will be able to see the four dots of CYMK that join up to make that image.
Spot colours are block colours taken from a Pantone Reference Book, which is the printing standard colour matching system. Block colours are mixed by the printers and matched against the book. The block colours can be made darker and lighter by adding a screen percentage on the block colour .For example a 100% is a total solid colour.
Litho printers can choose various percentages of screens to produce images lighter and darker of the same colour to give the effect of more than one colour. Here are more details about how litho printing works.
Advantages of Lithographic Printing
The advantages of this method means that you can print on a wide variety of paper with different surfaces and thicknesses. The printing process gives this a smooth print with no serrated edges. Unlike letterpress or gravure printing which would leave a serrated edge.
Litho Printers Quote
Contact us for a quote and we can start getting to work on your next printing project. The easiest way is to use our online quote form that will send us an email. If you would prefer to talk to somebody, you can phone us on 01527 575 166.
You will not find a more competitive Litho printers in the UK – we will match any like-for-like quote that you receive.
