What's the difference between offset printing, gravure printing, pad printing and silk printing?

Offset Print

The vast majority of books and periodicals, picture albums and packaging color boxes are offset printing products. Offset printing is a kind of lithography printing, very simple is offset printing with the help of rubber (rubber) to the plate on the substrate on the printing method, that is, there are three rollers (printing, blanket, press) lithography printing method.

Soft Printing

The most common logistics packaging corrugated cartons are flexo printing products. Fleo printing is the evolution of convex printing, flexo printing is a direct printing method, because of the use of elastic, raised graphic printing and called flexo printing. The soft plate of the plate is stuck on the drum, and the plate is ink by a carved metal mesh roller.

Pad Printing

Plate printing ink plump has three-dimensional sense, text and text with convex sense, and rich layers, clear lines, high quality printing plate long life, suitable for a large number of printing. The gravure print can print extremely thin materials, such as plastic film.

Screen Printing

The screen printing process is the ink through part of the mesh after the leakage printing on the substrate, the rest of the mesh is blocked, the ink can not pass. When printing, the ink is poured on the web plate, and under the action of external force, the ink will not leak through the mesh to the substrate. When the scraper scratches the ink with a certain pressure and tilt Angle, it is transferred to the substrate below through the net plate to realize the reproduction of the image.