Recruitment for International Sales Agent
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We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to break into new oversea market in the printing industry. Interested person can send your C.V. directly to recruitment@allionprinting.com
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Usually happens in Pantone color, but also happens between solid CMYK.
When two element colors are used side-by-side, there will be no problem on monitor and digital color proof because they have perfect alignment. However, there is a slight margin of error on printing and a thin white line will appear sometimes. It is illustrated at the left hand side of the following picture.
The goal for offset printing is mass production. Our Heidelberg printing machine can print up to 12,000 impressions per hour. Technology has kept improving and the alignment error between colors can be as little as approximately 0.1mm nowadays. However, our eyes can see the 0.1mm white line between solid colors if they don’t have perfect alignment.
There is a solution call trapping. The right hand side of the above picture illustrats the picture after trapping. One of the color is a overlapping the other color for about 0.1mm to cover up the 0.1mm error from the machine. The overlapping color is usually not noticeable to human eyes. Some CTP programs can do trapping automatically between spot colors but they are not 100% reliable. We can also draw an over-print color line around the shape to create trapping.
August 9th, 2017 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
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We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to break into new oversea market in the printing industry. Interested person can send your C.V. directly to recruitment@allionprinting.com
June 6th, 2016 | Posted in Company Specific, Hong Kong, Printed by Allion | Comments Off on Recruitment for International Sales Agent
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If you want to collate a set of books into a ring binder, there are two ways to do it. One, drill 2 or 3 holes on the book according to your binder and insert. The second one is loop stitching.
Drilling holes looks like a simple process. But it may destroy some wordings or pictures in the book which are too close to the spine. Also, when people look at the book, the book cannot be open flat and it is hard to turn the pages. People usually have to get the book out from the spine in order to read the book properly.
On the other hand, there is a loop stitching. It is a lesser know and less popular binding. However, it is very convenient to put the books into a ring binder as this binding is designed for this one single purpose. The binding process is exactly the same as saddle stitching. One the stitching head is needed to be changed. Thus, it shares the same inexpensive cost as saddle stitching. |
October 7th, 2015 | Posted in Printed by Allion | No Comments »
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We can print anything on paper, such as:
We work with many out-source companies to provide a rich set of effects. The following is a comprehensive list but not limited to:
Apart from delivering locally in Hong Kong, we can also pack in carton boxes and pallets to ship around the world. We have lots of customers sending books to China and Macau.
We also have partners to help us to distribute books according to a mailing list. They can take care all the label printing, insert books into plastic bags and figure out the cheapest way to mail.
May 5th, 2014 | Posted in Company Specific | No Comments »
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As a matter of fact, yes we do. Although most of our printing plates are using CTP, some jobs are still using film to develop plates.
CTP (Computer to Plate) is fast, clean and precise method to develop printing plates. Film is slow to develop and layout, has dust and tape shadow, produces variable result depending on temperature and humidity. Film may also lose small details during development. Film is so imperfect but why are we still using film to develop plates?
First of all, film has the advantage of wet proof. People can wet-proof the color using the same paper as in print. It is very essential for high quality requirement from certain oversea clients. Once we have the wet proof, we are confident that our printing color can be at least 90% match. It is something that digital color proof cannot archive after so many years of development. It is especially important when printing non-glossy art paper as the color may shift a lot.
CTP’s digital proof is not using the same coloring system as printing (CMYK) so that the color space is different. It can only use some special high quality ink jet paper. As a result, the color will never be the same as in printing. Even some printers can emulate the effect of matt or woodfree paper, digital color proof will never be very close to the printing result when using non-glossy paper. Also, digital color proof does not have pantone color, such as Gold, silver, and florescent colors.
Recently, people have start using CTP plates for wet proof. It eliminates the need for film and has all the advantages of web proof. However, after the CTP plates are used for wet proof, even if there is one word updated in any one of the pages, the whole set has to be re-output. Update content after color proof is very common nowadays so that the print job will need almost 2 sets of CTP plates. One for web proof and one for printing. When using film, any one page can be updated without affecting the others.
Film has other advantages. Certain client likes the effect of film printing as it has more color depth in it. Just like the analogy with vacuum tube amplifiers, it is a matter of taste and preference. Client also has a peace of mind when reprinting books. It has happened before that the output center has pulled out an older version of file for output. The client has made multiple changes during the last print and the data center is confused. With film, we will keep only the latest version of film.
February 10th, 2014 | Posted in Company Specific | No Comments »
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