For next year module a heavy part of the brief will be the production, we currently don't have the brief but we have been told this. Due to this we have been sent on a tour round Pressision Print Press, This is a printing company situated near Leeds.
This has been selected for a visit as they show how the production and the print of their work, which is mostly books or magazines can enhance the overall design of the outcome. They have produced a range of different project where the production features have been high conceptual, for example Criag Oldhams, In Loving Memory Of,this book is about miners and their deaths so the book has used ink with parts of coal dust to reflect this content.
Pressision gave use bag full of items they have produced, these include work for People of Print and FSTP. The items have been made better by the techniques available for commercial print, for example colours are fluorescent or metallic inks using stop color system. I was unaware this could be done on a mass scale before this visit as i thought these inks could only be used for screen printing, this visit has seen how most print techniques we can do at college or by hand can some way be done via commercial printing.
This trip also explain how the company is not working with white ink, this is a new ink that can be applied to as a base coat to give colours more pop or on its own, this is very high tech as most places cannot use white in, its rare to be able to print in white ink.
Also this triped talked about Spot Colouring, this is were a selected Pantone colour is used in place of mixing CKMY to make sure the colour is always correct. This is used in branding or for brand work to make sure they achieve the exact same colour every time the ink is used rather than pre-mixing that can cause slight different variations.
images from the trip -
