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Quality of a free font

... on a laser printer, but is too thin to print well on an offset press, where the plates are made from the computer files (direct to ... they printed too thin, esp. with direct-to-plate offset lithography, but you could fix them. That was the beauty of them, with a weeks ...

Forum topic - Typical - 4 May 2007 - 11:36pm - 54 comments - 1 attachment

Graphic Designer vs Typographer

... such reproductive methods as those of engraving, etching, lithography, photography, serigraphy, woodcut, silkscreen, etc., and/or ... and distribute a new hot metal typeface. Once photo offset lithography and phototype came into their own, the traditional print ...

Forum topic - Eric_West - 18 Sep 2005 - 8:36am - 108 comments - 0 attachments

FORGOTTEN HISTORIES: The Collotype print past and present.

... industrial scale as techniques such as the ubiquitous offset lithography, it was consistently employed on a relatively small scale ...

News - Miss Tiffany - 23 Jan 2006 - 8:44am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Printing Methods

... Indices : Printing Methods Letterpress Offset Lithography Screen Printing Gravure Laser Printers Ink ...

Wiki - dezcom - 17 Jan 2006 - 11:15am - 0 comments

Why is it called "Color"?

... of typeface color . Prior to phototypesetting and offset lithography, there were numerous variables that had to be contended with that ...

Forum topic - Norbert Florendo - 24 Sep 2005 - 6:04am - 75 comments - 0 attachments

Christian Gothic

... can decide what to do with it. Especially considering that offset printing is so regular, it's pretty artificial to fake things the way ... is leading: why not test the averaging process on offset lithography? That may help distinguish which visual effects are due to the ...

Forum topic - raph - 14 Feb 2005 - 11:47pm - 113 comments - 0 attachments

Letter spacing messed up in ITC Johnston

... as the printout from InDesign to local printer. When offset lithography is produced (I do not know the tools used for that ...

Forum topic - srob - 21 Jul 2004 - 12:43am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Archive through May 08, 2004

... I should take a good look at some of those old photofilm/offset manuals I've got laying around. This is of some concern, but ... reverse dot. And if this indeed happens, I wonder if offset plates have the same sort of gain during platemaking. I've never ... is the opposite. It exudes a sharpness lacking in lithography. Remember you do not look at type through microscopes. The ...

Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 4 May 2004 - 1:50pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

Biz Card... Paper ?

... White (and Speckletone) function very well in offset conditions. From my experience anyway. And letterpress for that matter. ... just adding my 2 bits. If you are going with lithography, I rather like Potlatch McCoy Matte 100# for business cards. If you ...

Forum topic - bradb1920 - 7 Aug 2003 - 8:45am - 18 comments - 0 attachments

Archive through June 28, 2003

... traps. Oh wait. I just remembered that I'm thinking offset and not letterpress. Apologies. I'll go back to my corner now. ... of ink-trapping was in the late sixties, where in lithography, it was applied to a few situations, not especially typefaces. It ...

Forum topic - hrant - 26 Jun 2003 - 8:47am - 29 comments - 0 attachments