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Articles
The monthly bulletin for Members of prism, covering current UK regulatory, health, safety and environmental issues. The bulletin is a management summary tailored to the specialist printing industry.
Here is an example from the archive...
 prism Regulatory Bulletin June 08
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The best way to ensure compliance with legislation and make significant cost savings is to identify ways of minimising waste by means of a FREE FastTrack visit. Through these visits, Envirowise can help companies maximise their use of materials, leading to both improved levels of efficiency and, more importantly, reduced costs.
http://www.envirowise.gov.uk/page.aspx?o=visits
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This is a cracking article by Mike Hardcastle of DCP Systems – well worth a read!
If your company has any form of Digital kit, as well as Screen, this piece includes very up-to-the minute information on available inks, substrates and machinery. It also includes some interesting facts and figures from Web Consulting not available elsewhere!
This article is available for Members only under 'Articles' on the Members page of the DSPA website.
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A wide range of articles dealing with many matters of interest to the Printing Industry.
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The POS/graphics market in the UK is worth £1.4bn per year (valued in 2007) and is growing.
Technology is changing as more digital printing is being used, some companies have invested in litho, and screen printing has a place too - though a declining one.
prism is committed to supporting this market sector by promoting print, and particularly members businesses, to the creative and buying communities who appreciate exposure to the most up to date print effects and the cost effective ways of producing messages for marketing purposes.
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The market in the UK is growing, in response to demand for short runs and personalisation.
Technologically, the garments and textiles sector exhibits all techniques - screen, digital & pad.
prism is committed to supporting this market sector and will represent the industry by supporting the planned series of UK Garments & Product Decorating shows from September to November 2008. This is a first for prism and a sign of delivering on its commitment to support UK-wide profitability and competitiveness of the key sectors of the industry.
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There are a number of ways of defining this sector, and prism defines it as the market for printed articles which perform a function rather than for decoration, and are used as a component of a device or appliance.
The market in the UK is worth £700M pa and is growing as demand increases.
This is a sector in which screen-printing excels as as the technology of choice, providing cost effective print runs which run into the thousands if not millions.
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Screen printing is an extremely versatile process and can be broken down into various market sectors: POS/Graphics/Posters, CD/DVD, Electronics, Ceramics, Glass, Textiles, 3D – bottles, containers, white goods. It uses a wide range of printing mediums from conventional printing inks, dyes, chocolate, antibiotics, conductive mediums, and a whole range in between. Machines can range from a simple (home made) hand bench to multicolour automatic lines.
Screen Printing 308.13 Kb
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Originally developed for printing watch dials the pad printing process is particularly suitable for printing high definition images onto 3 dimensional products. Concave and convex shapes hold no fears for this process as is demonstrated when it is used to print golf balls. The process has come along way in recent years with developments enabling printing of larger image areas, higher speeds, ink ranges to suit almost all substrates, new plate and inking systems.
Pad Printing 338.54 Kb
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In recent years the developments in Digital printing have been great. Increased production rates, improved image clarity, considerable reductions in capital equipment costs. Developments in ink technology have enabled the ability to print on a wide range of substrates.
Digital Printing 235.31 Kb
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This gives an “at a glance” comparison of the various processes. Screen Printing, Pad Printing, Digital Printing, Dry Offset Printing, Heat Applied Transfers and Hotfoil Printing.
Comparisons such as printed ink film thickness, operator skill levels, part shape limitations and a whole host of other parameters.
Process Comparison 191.55 Kb
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