What is the process of making booklets and traycards?
In order to make your booklets and traycards, our printing press requires plates generated from your artwork. A special printer commonly referred to as an image setter (or plate setter) is used to create these plates, which are in turn used on the offset printing press to transfer ink to the paper at high speeds. To make color booklets, the printing press uses four ink colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and blacK. By varying the percentage of each of these four colors, you can achieve the effect of any color desired.
In order to make your booklets and traycards, an image setter is used to create aluminum printing plates that transfer ink to the paper at high speeds. To make color booklets, the printing press uses four ink colors: CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and blacK). By varying the percentage of each of these four colors, you can achieve any color desired. NOTE: Any color photographs or images within your layout must be converted to CMYK in order to create color booklets. Please make sure that you do this because a we see a common mistake where the files are saved in the computer’s default RGB (Red Green Blue) setting. Many professional graphic artists prefer some of their layouts to be printed with spot colors from the Pantone Matching System (PMS) to create a special look or effect they are trying to achieve, the most common being a metallic spot color (an effect that cannot be realized through traditional CMYK layering). Furnace can print any number of spot colors, but keep in mind that you w
