Monday 27 June 2011

Video: 3D Printing Demo

As we post some material in video formate for delevering information, establishing concept and promoting the field of printing here is displayed another useful video, hope you enjoy it.

Images: Printing

Following pictures are being posted by the classical work from the collection made by our skilled designer. We often post some of the work prepared for customers for the purpose that visitors of this site may get some new ideas to have design for their boxes.



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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Book Review: Printing Methods

'Monotype' machine-set type will be suitable and can usually be acquired from a local printer or supplies may be had from firms who specialize in provision to the trade of a wide variety of type faces and composing room materials.

At this stage important decisions must be taken. What 'face' or design of types are to be selected; what weights are to be ordered and in what sizes; is roman and italic to be stocked?
It is advisable before selecting type faces to get acquired with a reasonable range. Some proposals which may serve as a guide are to be found on pages 56-65: they will all repay careful study. Type comes in packets, normally wrapped in brown paper bearing on the front its description and size. A packet of type is called a fount and each packet will have all the characters of the alphabet in lower case and capitals, together with an assortment of punctuation marks. Display type that is type which is likely to be used for headlines may have caps and lower case but the capitals are usually more, useful. There are also some display types called 'Titling' that possess no lower case letters.

Titling letters are founts of capitals which can be cast without shoulders as no provision has to be made for lower case ascenders and descenders. These letters are useful for setting successive lines of capitals were fairly close spacing between lines is desired.

Words Used In Above Page:
Monotype: A typesetting machine, now little used, that casts type in metal, one character at a time.
Assortment: A miscellaneous collection of things: "an assortment of clothes".
Titling:  Give a name to (a book, composition, or other work): "a song titled "Blue".


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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Printing Methods: Introduction to Printing

Type and Materials

The tools used by a compositor have been much the same for generations: indeed they do not differ in essentials from the equipment used more than five hundred years ago by Gutenberg who is thought to be the first printer to have worked with movable type.

Type is cast from a master letter which has been cut on the end of a piece of steel. The steel punch is driven into a piece of copper called a matrix: molten metal is pressed against the matrix reproducing exactly the shape of the letter which was originally cut on the steel punch.

This is the basic principle of making type letters whether they are cast by hand or produced by a casting machine.
The metal used is a mixture of lead, Tin and antimony and is fairly hard; but it can be melted at reasonably low temperatures. This is necessary requirement as type metal cast on a machine is eventually put back into the 'pot' and re-melted after it has been used and cast into ingot form to be used again. The printing surface is known as the face and letters are cast on a body or shank:
the height to paper from the face to the foot of the shank is 0.918 of an inch.

When a printing office is set up, whether it be in an attic or on a more extensive scale,
the first step taken must be to secure some founts of type.

The book under review is "Introduction To Printing" by Herbert Simon. This easy to read book provides lots of information for newbie printers.

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Friday 24 June 2011

Custom Printing Processes

Following text is gotten from the book "Introduction to Printing" which describes the printing process in detail.

Gradually lift the type clear of the stick, turning the wrist so that the feet of the type point towards the body: keeping up the pressure on the ends and sides, transfer the lines of type to the gallery.
The gallery is a metal tray with three edges raised at right-angles to the base and one end open. The gallery should rest on a slope so that the type taken from the stick can be supported by the raised right-angle. When all the type has been set and transferred to the gallery the first stage of composition can be considered to have been completed.

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Thomas Jefferson

Custom Printing

Following paragraphs have been taken from the book of Herbert Simon named "Introduction To Printing: The Craft of Letter Press". This greatly informative book describes the art of printing in satisfactory details from start to the end. This book is a key resource for newbies who want to learn basics of printing and this book is also a complete guide for expert printers.

Spaces being below type height cannot be removed easily by thumb and finger: the best way is to
knock the spaces out by the space which is replacing them. It can also happen that one or two letters of a word have to be pushed on to the next line: in this case the spacing must be increased by taking out the thick spaces and replacing them with two thin spaces.
It will be seen that the end of lines inevitably produce problems of justification.: it can also produce problems of word division.
Words can only be divided at the end of syllables: for example in-deed and not in-eed. All justification problems can be solved by the use of a range of varying thickness of spaces and by unhurried judgment in word division. Most important of all is to avoid either tight or slack justification.

As a rule it is convenient to set between four and six lines of type in the stick before removing them on to a tray with three raised edges, called a gallery. Lifting type out of a composing stick requires quite a lot of practice.
There is a correct way of doing it and, if it is followed accidents will be rare. First of all place the stick down on the sloping surface of the composing frame. Then move the setting rule guage to the front of the open side of the stick and place behind the first line a three point lead of the correct measure, this being next to the closed edge of the stick;
by doing this, support will be given front and back to all the lines in the composing stick.

Position the thumb and forefingers of each hand so that they can exert lateral pressure on the lines of type and bend the remaining fingers so that they press firmly against both ends of the line.

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Thursday 23 June 2011

Video: Screen Printing Process



Detailed information about the process and its most common uses.
Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transport ink or other printable materials which can be pushed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, making or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas.

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Images: Custom Boxes Printed

As we use to share the great art work by our designers who are always ready to make new custom boxes designs on demand. Our basic purpose is to satisfy our customers by providing best ever services to let them compete in the market in a best way.
As we have described on many places that the main and foremost use of custom boxes is to advertise a brand and make the product attractive.
Remember to properly obtain the goal of custom boxes it is essential to have print your boxes with a well reputed and an expert printing company.

Here are some pictures of boxes that have been designed by our custom printed boxes designers. Hope you like our work.



Introduction To printing << Herbert Simon

Type is picked out of the case by the thumb and forefinger of the right hand and transferred into the composing stick which is held in the left hand. The composing stick must be 'cupped' in the hand so that the thumb is free to guide the individual letters to their proper position. The composing stick must be titled almost vertically so that the individual letters will fall towards the back and not towards the front open side.
When each line has been set, justification needs attending to. This is an extremly important element in setting and one that can cause some difficulty. Each word has to be divided from other word by a space. The case is provided with six kinds of spaces ranging from an em quad to a hair space. As a line proceeds a thick space should be put between each word: but when the end of the line is reached it may be that the last word makes it too tight.
To avoid this, the thick spaces may have to be replaced by middle and occasionally thin spaces.

Above paragraph has been taken from "Introduction To Printing" by Herbert Simon. Courtesy of Herbert Simon.

Easy Printing Methods

From the book "Introduction To Printing" by Herbert Simon.

Having decided on a line of 24 ems measure, set twenty-four 12-point em quads and adjust slide so that it just grips them:
a tight fit is to be avoided. Then, having removed the quads, place the setting rule against the back edge of the composing stick.
It should rest comfortably in this position and must not be allowed to bow.

With the setting rule in position the letters can be picked out of the case and transferred to the stick. The line will require spacing between the words and considerable judgment has to be exercised to choose the correct thickness of space so that the line fits comfortably, not either slackly or tightly, in the 24 ems linear measurement.
This fitting of the line comfortably within the measure is known as justification. All lines must be uniformly justified so that subsequent operations can be carried out satisfactory. After a line has been set and justified the setting rule should be moved forward so that the next line can be set against it. The individual letters must, of course, face the same way.
This can be checked by seeing that the 'nick' on the shank of the type is visible in every complete line.

Wednesday 22 June 2011

Custom Printed Boxes Designs

We are proud to share our work on internet. The pictures that are presented on this website blog are related to custom printed boxes which have been prepared by us to fulfill an order.
Most of customers like us only due to beautiful design that is provided to our customers for free.
These boxes designs are unique and are not available on net except this website.

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Custom Printed Boxes Designs

Custom Printed Boxes Designs

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3D Printing Custom Printing




Well you must have heard and read about 3D printing process. Here is cool video that shows the actual working of a 3D printer.
For those who don't know some information about 3D printing is described as follows.

3D printing is a form of additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by laying down consecutive layers of material. 3D printers are usually faster, more affordable and easier to use than other additive manufacturing technologies.

About Printing

Here is some information about printing from the great work of Herbert Simon which he has published with the name "Introduction To Printing: The craft of Letter Press". Please feel free to post your comment on this book or on this blog post.

Printers measures linear width in 'pica ems'. An em is 12 points, the equivalent of one-sixth of an inch. There are
therefore six 'pica ems' to the inch. If it has been decided to set a line four inches wide then the movable piece on the composing stick must be set at precisely 24 em from the right hand edge.
This setting must be accurate: to ensure accuracy it is well to be provided with a series of setting rules which are, in effect, guages. Most useful would be a series of stting rules starting at two inches (12 em) and going up by one third of an inch (2 em) to six inches (36 em).

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How to Print


As stated before we are presenting the introduction from the great work of Herbert Simon from his book "Introduction To Printing".

It is essential , as a start to memorize the lay of the case and as soon as you posses a fount of type, to
practice picking out and replacing individual letters. The special case of capitals and display is laid in a relatively
simple sequence but here again actual practice in picking up letters should be continued until any letter demanded can be picked out with confidence.
When the 'lay of the case' has become familiar and nay desired letter can be picked up with complete assurance, then actual composition can be undertaken.

Type is picked out of the case letter by letter and assembled, in lines, in a composing stick. This essential tool has a movable piece at right angles to the back edge which can be set to any
width and, by the turn of a thumb screw or by pressing a lever, locked firmly in position.
Before starting to set anything a decision must be made fixing the width of the line.

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
(Ella Wheeler Wilcox )

Tuesday 21 June 2011

Printing Information and how to



Well, for the awareness, information and knowledge we have started a new way of expressing information of printing. Though is way is not new for online users of various communities but in the field of printing you will find a very few number of website which are using "YouTube" as a source of delivery of printing information.

Hope you like our effort.

Compositor is just a mechanic


Typesetting is a particularly satisfactory craft to tackle because it combines in nearly equal degrees manual skills and the skills required of a designer. The compositor, as Holbrook Jackson says, is ‘the mason of typography and type-setting is still a craft like bricklaying’. Careful, readable setting of type is the foundation of all good printing and it must be recognized that every individual task undertaken has within it some decision affecting its design. It would be wrong to think that a compositor is just a mechanic: he is never far removed from being a creative craftsman.

Type is put into a case which is divided into compartments containing the lower case letters, the capital letters (upper case), numerals, punctuation marks and the various spaces which are normally required. The compartments of the case are not of uniform size because some letters are used more frequently than others and of these a larger supply will be needed: the case generally used accommodates the complete roman alphabet of small letters and capitals: a companion case would be needed for a complete italic alphabet: and yet another case will be required to provide for small capitals and any large capitals wanted for display.

Reference: From the book of Herbert Simon, “Introduction to Printing: The craft of Letterpress” page #2.

Printing an Introduction


Chapter No. 1:

SETTING TYPE

Printing is concerned with words and words are made up by assembling individual letters in their proper sequence. A first step in training to be a printer is to learn how to set words in type. This is a craft which cannot be mastered overnight: it needs a good deal of study and sustained hard work. But one can be assured that all the time given to mastering the art of composing will be well rewarded by the interest and variety of task that printing affords.
The old saying ‘practice makes perfect’ is particularly relevant to typesetting and even professionals have to reckon on two or three years’ training before considering themselves truly proficient.

As stated before that the above written information is from the great work of Herbert Simon named “Introduction to Printing: The craft of Letterpress”.

The purpose of sharing these articles is to introduce the above described work.

Monday 20 June 2011

Introduction To Printing


Introduction To Printing By Herbert Simon

This is a great informative book for learners Herbert Simon has write a lot of details about printing in a very easy to read way. I have read some of it and recommend this book for those who want to understand printing from basic to the expert level. Rather than writing a short review about this book I am planning to post some of pages from this book. Hope you like it.

Thursday 16 June 2011

Why Custom Printed Boxes

As this web log contains info about usages, benefits, grounds to use custom boxes..
This article further defines the use and reasons of custom boxes.

As you know that custom printed boxes contain the product insuring its safety during move and locomotion.

Custom printed boxes not only contain info about the use of production but also enhance the interest of client by enhancing the presentation of production in best eye capturing manner.

Tool for the company. Boxes can contain logotype as well as slogan of company which is offering the product. This helps in brand marketing.

The address of company printed at back side side of box helps clients to contact the company and so increase the chances of rendering clients.

By above given benefits and uses of custom printed boxes it is obvious that custom boxes act as business publicity tool in a cost effective and sure manner.

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Custom Printed Boxes: Starting Your Online Business

Online world is digital copy of offline world that is analog.

Starting online business of printing is not so difficult but requires some serious considerations and
that will work as bases of work.

This (online printing business) would be more easy and desirable for those who are already dealing in printing offline.

Online business doesn't require many resources and programming knowledge, though these can be advantages for it.
=> All you need is starting cost approximately 60 US$ and it will become 60 US$ per year as on-going cost for your business.
=> Basic computer and internet understanding.

Purchase a custom domain from a domain registrar (such as NameCheap.com, GoDaddy.com, Name.com, ...) this should cost you less than 12 US$.
Get a free hosting account in any free hosting provider like zymic.com or setup a blog in free blog provider like blogger.com.
Setup your domain with free hosting provider.

You can purchase space for hosting if you don't like to use free space provider but it will cost you extra 40 US$ to 50 US$ depending on service provider you choose.

Once you have setup your own domain and hosting then you are ready to go for online business.
Most of hosting providers provide easy to use text editor to make pages for website.

The other way to make pages for your website is the use of Microsoft Frontpage. Microsoft Frontpage comes in Microsoft office suit like office xp.
Frontpage lets you make static as well as dynamic pages for your website and also provides complete HTML coding that can be copy pasted into your website page.
This is easy to use application for preparing .HTML pages.

Once you have prepared your website putt links to different websites those will advertise your product in a positive way.

It is highly recommended that not to start online business full-time. Rather start it on part-time bases and keep on doing offline work/business that you are already doing. After-wards when you see that your online business is giving reasonable profit by covering all the expanses then develop it gradually to work as full-time.

Thursday 9 June 2011

Custom Box Printing

Custom box printing are very popular tool in all types of businesses which deal in products for the purpose of product promotion and advertising tool.

This is another debatable fact that well-designed and well-printed packing catches the eye of customers and becomes prominent in other competitive brands. This is the reason that most of the successful brands have taken special care of their packing.

Custom box printing can best act as advertising and marketing tool for promotion of other related products and/or business in the form of short message printed at the bottom of the box.

There are many styles and types of custom boxes that are used according to the product put inside. Following are some of famous types of custom boxes.

Toy Boxes    
Pop Corn Boxes
Playing Card Boxes
Pyramid Boxes
Tote Boxes
Suitecase Boxes
Telescoping Boxes    
Cigarette Boxes
Ballot Boxes
Bon Bon Boxes
Candy Boxes
Bin Boxes
Medicine Boxes

Any box can be selected according to its use and product. The quality and success of a custom printed box solely depend upon the printing company

Some well reputed companies provide free design services as well as free samples to select best design for a product. Here is a company listed below which helped me a lot in printing my custom boxes. They have very co-operative customer service which on-demand refers to a technical person who not only helps in selecting best product but also provides free design service.

Custom Box Printing

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Custom Printed Boxes

Although economic recovery is stalling out but many retailers are still facing difficulties. Retailers are spending their resources for betterment of products and increasing the sales through advertising. Good advertising can promote a continual, healthy growth of your business. But there are other aspects which must not be neglected. Business can be promoted by increasing the number of sales and improving the business’s expression on consumer using cost-effective but proven techniques like well designed custom printed boxes.

Printed boxes offer the customers satisfaction and ease of use while keeping the costs low at the same time. Packaging boxes are used for various purposes. Their main purpose is to put an item or equipment in a package so that it could be transported or stored. They come in many varieties, depending upon their usage. They have become quite popular due to being a good deal good deal for marketing and advertisement.. With all of the options, including best design of box that complement with the product inside it, a retail business can easily find a box that will match the theme and style of organization. Making packaging customized and standardized allows the retailer to compete in a better way without exceeding the budget.

Popular re-usable plastic bags are available in a full array of trendy styles, colors, and sizes which can be used for boxed items or smaller goods. With your own personalized logo and company oriented design these not only hold the goods but also work as best advertisement and marketing tool. There are many other packaging supplies available like labels, envelopes, stickers, tape, etc which can be personalized to include the business name and logo.. Custom printed ribbon adds that extra touch to a purchase when it is placed around a box or bag. With a beautiful design and company logo custom printed ribbons can add extra beauty to a purchased item when it is placed around a box or bag..

Custom packaging tapes are also available. Packing tape allow the user to seal box flaps and other shipping containers quickly and efficiently with one hand. Customized packaging tape with business name or logo can not only increase the beauty of box or container by giving a professional look but also work as effective advertisement.

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Monday 6 June 2011

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Printing is an art more than a knowledge. Printing is a practical work. A knowledge can be learned from good books or good teacher delivers it in a most convenient manner, but an art especially printing can be best learned in practice.