Design.
Approval. Separations. Paper. Ink. Negatives. Plates. Die lines. Equipment. Dry
time. Heat. Cool. Foil. Thermo ink. Die cut. Emboss. Number. Perforation.
Score. Lamination. Coating. Cutting. Punching. Gluing. Koiling. Stapling.
No less than 6
of these tasks are needed for most jobs that are generally put through a print company. Most of us
do not sit at our home computer waiting for your approval to hit PRINT on our
desktop printer and then have the job magically completed within 10 minutes.
There are processes that are followed in order to have a finished product that you are happy to hand out.
RAD Printing
knows that you may not fully understand the print industry, because if you did
you probably wouldn't be ordering a project through us as you'd be working
alongside us. However please do not assume that we are just waiting at our
desktop computers waiting to hit the button: PRINT.
There are processes that are followed in order to have a finished product that you are happy to hand out.
Yes some digital
projects are easy and yes click to print - however we still need paper, check
to make sure it is straight, check colors and adjust if need be and check
through the run to check registration or consistency, and we may even need to
cut the project down.
However if you
give approval for a printed job that consists of: Two sided printing,
lamination, foil and a round corner, please do not hope to have the job within
two working days. This project will take a lot more than two working days to
complete because there are a lot of processes to fully complete:
1.Ordering the paper, often times we like to order the
paper beforehand while we are proofing still so that when we get approval it is
on our shop floor, cut down to the run size.
2. We like to
make sure the first side that is printed is fully dry before we attempt to
print the back side. Ghosting and marking can sometimes occur which could ruin
the job and we'd have to start over.
3. We want to
make sure the second side is fully printed and dry before lamination because
the lamination heat can sometimes cause issues with wet ink.
4. We wait to
make sure the laminate is cured fully before we attempt to add heat for foil
transfer. At this point in the project we don't want to rush and have an issue
that would require us to start at the beginning.
5. Round corners
are actually die cut so that we can make sure the curve is the same on every
card rather than it being different throughout the box because of the way it
was done.
5. Finally we
cut the cards down and box them up for you.
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Any
questions please ask us!