Printing Fininshing

Creating the perfect, high-impact design is no simple task. It can take weeks of planning and designing, and can cost a lot of money, especially if a graphic designer is hired to get the job done. With all the effort that goes into making a print design look perfect, it is critical to have the print job be equally high quality.

Once the printing stage is reached, a person may have a lot of questions about how to proceed. Getting a high-quality finished product is not as simple as ordering a generic print. Instead, it is important to consider the various printing finishing services available that can give a person’s design the eye-catching finished product they want.

Traditionally, printing and finishing services have been done to projects after they have come off of the printing press. However, there are some processes that can now be done while the project is still on the press. The two processes are called inline process and offline process. With an inline process, there are finishing units attached to the end of a printing press that perform the finishing functions. An inline process eliminates the need for two separate processes to get the finished product. This is typically done with digital and web presses. With an offline process, the printing process and finishing process are separate. This requires the project to be taken off of the press and then put through the finishing process.