Color digital offset printing technology

Indigo's color digital offset presses provide a unique combination of features based on its color digital offset press technology and operation. Features include high-quality screen printing, high-speed printing, generalized color printing, and the ability to print and process a wide variety of prints on a wide-area photographic plate.
What is color digital offset printing

1. Digital Printing and Offset Printing

Digital printing refers to the production of pages directly from digitized data. Text and pictures are produced by electronic layout or desktop publishing programs. Unlike traditional printing programs, digital printing eliminates prepress operations from digital files to the final printing process, eliminating the need for films, imagesetters, plateetters, or chemical imaging. It is not necessary to check the electronic documents and typesetting the final product before printing. No need for overprinting, no overprint adjustment and ink transfer. Offset uses a transfer roller to transfer the ink image from the plate to the final substrate.

A significant difference between traditional offset printing technology and Indigo offset printing technology is that Indigo's electronic ink can be completely transferred during the transfer of ink from the blanket to the substrate, thus solving the problem of ink splash in traditional offset printing. This means that every turn of the machine will produce a new color.

2. color

Indigo's digital printing technology supports full-color printing and can print multi-color prints at once.

Indigo's core technology

Indigo's three core technologies are electronic inks, thermal offset printing and rapid color conversion.

1. Electronic ink

Indigo presses use electronic inks - Indigo's unique liquid inks. Electronic inks contain charged liquid ink particles that make it possible to electronically control the position of printed particles in digital printing. Electronic inks can reach very small particles (1 to 2 microns), so that small particles allow printing to achieve higher resolution and smoothness, sharpening the edges of the image, and forming a very thin image layer.

(1) Standard basic color CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black);

(2) The wide color gamut six-color setting increases orange red and purple, so that the color reproduction capability is much higher than the color reproduction ability on the basis of the original four colors;

(3) PINDONE compatible INDIGO spot color system;

(4) The opaque white coating of the colorless printing material;

(5) Fluorescent ink.

2. Hot offset

Hot offset printing refers to the use of a blanket heated to 100°C to melt the colored particles in Indigo electronic ink into a smooth liquid product. The heat of the blanket and the time it takes to stay are not enough to heat the paper or substrate. The ink will dry out quickly after leaving the printer, eliminating the possibility of smudging other prints. This is one of the main advantages of Indigo offset printing compared to traditional offset printing.

In summary, Indigo's offset printing technology has the traditional offset printing effect, the ability to print on various substrates and the ability to dry at high speed, so that we do not have to wait in the process of double-sided printing.

3. Color transformation

Indigo's digital color offset technology can print all colors on a set of rollers. After one color is printed, the other color is printed on the same roller. Indigo's blanket has a 100% secondary transfer capability so no image remains on the blanket. Monochrome roller printing has many advantages: compact structure, low hardware consumption and high mechanical accuracy.

Indigo's color digital offset presses provide a unique combination of features based on its color digital offset press technology and operation. Features include high-quality screen printing, high-speed printing, generalized color printing, and the ability to print and process a wide variety of prints on a wide-area photographic plate.

What is color digital offset printing

1. Digital Printing and Offset Printing

Digital printing refers to the production of pages directly from digitized data. Text and pictures are produced by electronic layout or desktop publishing programs. Unlike traditional printing programs, digital printing eliminates prepress operations from digital files to the final printing process, eliminating the need for films, imagesetters, plateetters, or chemical imaging. It is not necessary to check the electronic documents and typesetting the final product before printing. No need for overprinting, no overprint adjustment and ink transfer. Offset uses a transfer roller to transfer the ink image from the plate to the final substrate.

A significant difference between traditional offset printing technology and Indigo offset printing technology is that Indigo's electronic ink can be completely transferred during the transfer of ink from the blanket to the substrate, thus solving the problem of ink splash in traditional offset printing. This means that every turn of the machine will produce a new color.

2. color

Indigo's digital printing technology supports full-color printing and can print multi-color prints at once.

Indigo's core technology

Indigo's three core technologies are electronic inks, thermal offset printing and rapid color conversion.

1. Electronic ink

Indigo presses use electronic inks - Indigo's unique liquid inks. Electronic inks contain charged liquid ink particles that make it possible to electronically control the position of printed particles in digital printing. Electronic inks can reach very small particles (1 to 2 microns), so that small particles allow printing to achieve higher resolution and smoothness, sharpening the edges of the image, and forming a very thin image layer.

(1) Standard basic color CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black);

(2) The wide color gamut six-color setting increases orange red and purple, so that the color reproduction capability is much higher than the color reproduction ability on the basis of the original four colors;

(3) PINDONE compatible INDIGO spot color system;

(4) The opaque white coating of the colorless printing material;

(5) Fluorescent ink.

2. Hot offset

Hot offset printing refers to the use of a blanket heated to 100°C to melt the colored particles in Indigo electronic ink into a smooth liquid product. The heat of the blanket and the time it takes to stay are not enough to heat the paper or substrate. The ink will dry out quickly after leaving the printer, eliminating the possibility of smudging other prints. This is one of the main advantages of Indigo offset printing compared to traditional offset printing.

In summary, Indigo's offset printing technology has the traditional offset printing effect, the ability to print on various substrates and the ability to dry at high speed, so that we do not have to wait in the process of double-sided printing.

3. Color transformation

Indigo's digital color offset technology can print all colors on a set of rollers. After one color is printed, the other color is printed on the same roller. Indigo's blanket has a 100% secondary transfer capability so no image remains on the blanket. Monochrome roller printing has many advantages: compact structure, low hardware consumption and high mechanical accuracy.

Indigo's color digital offset presses provide a unique combination of features based on its color digital offset press technology and operation. Features include high-quality screen printing, high-speed printing, generalized color printing, and the ability to print and process a wide variety of prints on a wide-area photographic plate.

What is color digital offset printing

1. Digital Printing and Offset Printing

Digital printing refers to the production of pages directly from digitized data. Text and pictures are produced by electronic layout or desktop publishing programs. Unlike traditional printing programs, digital printing eliminates prepress operations from digital files to the final printing process, eliminating the need for films, imagesetters, plateetters, or chemical imaging. It is not necessary to check the electronic documents and typesetting the final product before printing. No need for overprinting, no overprint adjustment and ink transfer. Offset uses a transfer roller to transfer the ink image from the plate to the final substrate.

A significant difference between traditional offset printing technology and Indigo offset printing technology is that Indigo's electronic ink can be completely transferred during the transfer of ink from the blanket to the substrate, thus solving the problem of ink splash in traditional offset printing. This means that every turn of the machine will produce a new color.

2. color

Indigo's digital printing technology supports full-color printing and can print multi-color prints at once.

Indigo's core technology

Indigo's three core technologies are electronic inks, thermal offset printing and rapid color conversion.

1. Electronic ink

Indigo presses use electronic inks - Indigo's unique liquid inks. Electronic inks contain charged liquid ink particles that make it possible to electronically control the position of printed particles in digital printing. Electronic inks can reach very small particles (1 to 2 microns), so that small particles allow printing to achieve higher resolution and smoothness, sharpening the edges of the image, and forming a very thin image layer.

(1) Standard basic color CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black);

(2) The wide color gamut six-color setting increases orange red and purple, so that the color reproduction capability is much higher than the color reproduction ability on the basis of the original four colors;

(3) PINDONE compatible INDIGO spot color system;

(4) The opaque white coating of the colorless printing material;

(5) Fluorescent ink.

2. Hot offset

Hot offset printing refers to the use of a blanket heated to 100°C to melt the colored particles in Indigo electronic ink into a smooth liquid product. The heat of the blanket and the time it takes to stay are not enough to heat the paper or substrate. The ink will dry out quickly after leaving the printer, eliminating the possibility of smudging other prints. This is one of the main advantages of Indigo offset printing compared to traditional offset printing.

In summary, Indigo's offset printing technology has the traditional offset printing effect, the ability to print on various substrates and the ability to dry at high speed, so that we do not have to wait in the process of double-sided printing.

3. Color transformation

Indigo's digital color offset technology can print all colors on a set of rollers. After one color is printed, the other color is printed on the same roller. Indigo's blanket has a 100% secondary transfer capability so no image remains on the blanket. Monochrome roller printing has many advantages: compact structure, low hardware consumption and high mechanical accuracy.

Reprinted from: Weinan Printing Network