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Arohit Goyat ¹, Nishan Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Printing Technology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Printing is an art of duplication. Infact it is an art, science & technology of reproduction of 'n' number of replicas of an original/literature/catalogue etc. with the help of a suitable printing process on the desired substrate and surface. It is declared as the “Greatest Invention of Millennium” by Time magazine, USA. And the spectrum of Time magazine is very well known. It is the largest industry of India after auto-parts. We are basically a servicing industry being overlapped by various perspectives of Engineering and Sciences like Computers, Electronics, Manufacturing, Chemical, Electrical, Optical and, of course by Management aspects. By an large, any Printing and Packaging concern is divided into three main sections Pre-press, In-press and Post-press. In other words, In-press and Post-press are meant for Hardcore Printing and Binding & Finishing works respectively. Pre-press section is there to take care of all tasks required to prepare an Image-carrier. The work in any typical Pre-press section starts with the preparation of copy that is required to be reproduced. Nonetheless, computers & their applications are an indispensable part of our Pre-press jobs. Generally, Desk-Top Publishing software like Quark X-press, Illustrator, Corel-Draw, Fox-Pro, Prinect (Heidelberg), Photoshop, Adobe In-design, Adobe PageMaker, MS-Office etc. etc. are used in Pre-press works. The Console/Control mechanism present in Printing machines (In-press section) and Bindery equipments (Post-press section) are also using various Computer technologies.

Keywords

Printing, Packaging, Pre-Press, In-Press, Post-Press, Image-Carrier.

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Arohit Goyat ¹, Nishan Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Printing Technology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

In the modern era of Printing Technology, currency printing is the abstract of all printing applications. Most of the banknotes employ four types of printing processes namely Lithography, Intaglio, Letterpress, and Silk Screen Printing. Ink Features : All the inks used in bank note printing offer a certain amount of security because they are not commercially available and hence not available to would be counterfeiters. The inks used have to have a very high performance and be very resistant to environmental conditions such as sunlight, heat, moisture, etc. Ink features are of utmost importance like Colour Choice, Fluorescent Inks, Metallic Inks, Metameric Inks, Magnetic Inks, Optically Variable Inks, and Colour Changing Inks etc. etc. Substrate Features : The choice of substrate is very important as it has to be a very durable material resistant to tearing, withstanding crumpling and stable to environmental effects such as humidity. In a bid to overcome the menace of fake Indian currency notes, the Government has started giving serious thought to printing currency notes on polymer, a practice prevalent in Australia. "Australian notes are more secure against counterfeiting". Some of the substrate features are Paper Features, Watermark, and Threads. Design Features : Many of the design features are built around precision printing that can be achieved by the highly specialised presses used in the production of bank notes. There are many types of design elements that can be worked into a bank note to give protection such as Rainbow Printing, Anti Copy Features, See through Features, Intaglio Detail, Latent Images, and Blind Recognition Features etc. Security features of currency printing were always remained a confidential and sensitive issue. Currency notes were always counterfeited in the world irrespective of several security and legal features.

Keywords

Fluorescent Inks, Metallic Inks, Optically Variable Inks, Anti Copy Features, Blind Features, Intaglio, Currency Notes etc.

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Deepak Kumar Sharma ¹, Nishan Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Printing Technology, GJUS & T, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

The digital printing technology is continues to grow and a lot of research is going on for the development of highly sophisticated printing machines for the suitability of all works. The lot of efforts is put into development of advanced and technologies and products. Here this research work is to extract and scrutinise the print quality of both FM screened and AM screened digital print and an analytical comparison between them. The result shows that FM screened digital printing has good or higher quality as compared to the AM screened digital prints.

Keywords

AM Screened, FM Screened Digital Prints, Print Quality.

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Nishan Singh ¹, Hitesh Garg ², Amit Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Somany Institute of Technology and Management, Rewari, Haryana, IN
2 Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd., Greater Noida, IN

Abstract

Aim of this paper is to examine the utilities and applications of GMI (Graphic Measures International) for Colour management solution in Sheet-Fed offset printing industry. GMI is quite new in the field of colour management world and examining its applications will be quite informative and beneficial for all printers and customers as well as. Offset industry need to be standardized for wide range of customer acceptance. A number of print jobs were taken into consideration to examine the facilities provided by GMI colour solutions and how it can be beneficial for printers for long run.

Keywords

Colour Standardization, GMI, Colour Matching, Solid Ink Density, Dot Gain, TVI, Colour Difference (ΔE).

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