Types of Printing in Mumbai

Printing services in Mumbai are considered one of the best as it provides variety and advanced state of art printing technology for all commercial and individual needs. The city is pioneer in innovation and is known for delivering out of box printing solutions. Below are the types of printing techniques that one can avail in Mumbai

Digital Printing

In digital printing, the digital images are printed on physical surfaces like clothes, plastics, magnets, cardboards, labels, synthetic materials, etc. This type of printing is done by desktop sized and industrial printers. It is not essential to keep it limited to single or two colours. By using a web-to-print software technique, one can also create a blending different colours to match with the desired design. Digital printers in Mumbai prefer a minimum image resolution of 300dpi for better quality and if it’s lower than that it may result in poor quality of printing.

Screen Printing

Screen printing uses various types of colored inks and is generally used for printing t-shirts, posters, and other promotional materials. Earlier, screen printing was confined to printing on silk materials. Today, several various kinds of materials are used. The process screen printing is done by laying the design on the top of the screen, There after, it is covered with photo coating and exposed to light. Due its exposure to heat, the coating hardens up and the rest of it is cleared away by leaving one kind of a print.

Flexography printing

This types of printing is generally operated using web presses (no relation with website) which prints on long and stretched rolls of paper. Standard plates aren’t used like in offset lithography. It uses of water based inks and rubber plates which dry quickly and enables a quicker production cycles. Due to quick drying time, it’s highly effective on materials like plastic.

Litho Printing

Pretty similar to Digital Printing, Litho Printing enables the printing of all colour prints on various types of physical surfaces. It also helps one to personalize and customize promotional products that requires multiple printing cycles. It requires High resolution artwork (minimum 300dpi) for this type of printing to get the highest quality of print

Transfer Printing

Transfer printing is used when a creative image has to be applied and printed on a curved or uneven surface. Mostly, it is used to print on materials like Clay, porcelain and cloth like surfaces. Transfer printing requires designs that have full digital images with vector and high quality resolution bitmap images which can be applied and printed on array of products.

Engraving

Engraving is said to be one of the most expensive out of all the printing methods. It also has the longest printing time among other types of printing. Engraving is one of the most commonly used printing method when it comes to royal invitation cards or business cards of top officials. The creative image is first engraved by hand or machine on a metallic plate. Then, the engraved design is filled with ink and a paper is hard pressed on it. Which results in a three-dimensional kind of crisp image. Such complicated designs and results are difficult to be produced by using other techniques.

Embossing

In this procedure, an impression of the creative design is created on a surface of the material and then a fixed amount of pressure is given on the materials and marks are left after the pressure has been released.

There are two types of embossing:

Blind embossing: The embossed mark is same as the colour of the product itself

Foil block: After the creative design is embossed, it is usually filled with metallic paints like silver and gold.

Embroider Printing

Artworks can be recreated by decorating the fabric with embroidery designs that are stitched in strands of thread with a needle. A particular printing machine is used in case of large scale  production. It can provide colour references for this type of printing. Embroiders try to match the colour which are closest to the sample provided by the client.

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