Different Kinds of Printing
February 3, 2009
After I went on a field trip to Sanita/Indevco/Unipac – a series of companies that produce different types of paper and soft tissues, print on them (and on other external products), and make their packaging (cardboard – with printing) – I thought about the different types of printing that I like and came up with the conclusion that i mostly like printing for posters and for fine arts. These are both achieved in many ways:
Posters could be either silk screen printed or printed in a press. Of course these include different subcategories of printing techniques that vary with the style needed. Press Printing is available everywhere in lebanon. The main problem is in silk printing because it is only found in some universities, and most graduate designers cannot have access to them. But this is not a major problem since there is one alternative, which is getting the material and making it at home… the only difference would be that instead of using a UV machine, one can use sunlight. It works exactly the same way and you will end up with the same result. In poster design though, unlike fine arts, the designer makes 1 silk screen printed piece and then scans it in, and can print an infinite number of posters from that at the print press.
Printing for Fine Arts is a very vague topic. Silk screen printing is one of the different techniques that could be used. Other techniques could purely hand made and not mass produced since it is a fine art piece.
