A job acan undergo one or many processes after printing. So me of them are listed below
Varnish
Lamination
Punching
Cutting
Binding
Pasting
After Post Press
PostPress is a crucial part of any printing process and it takes place after the actual printing. It helps in determines the final look, shape and feel of the printed product. Post press consists of several sub processes that are implemented depending upon the type of the project and the job being handled. Some of the basic types of post press operations in printing industry which are often used are as follows:
Cutting
This is one of the most common operations of post press which is used in almost all projects. For this purpose, the machines which used are known as “guillotine cutter” or “paper cutter”. These are special machines which are used for cutting large substrates of web-type into different sheets or pages. These machines differ in sizes, features, abilities, capacities and configurations; because they are built for individual purposes.
Folding
This activity is performed mostly in printing workshops for pamphlets, magazines and
product boxes. There are mainly three types of folders used in print shops – bone folder, knife folder and buckle folder.
- Bone folder is the one of the oldest among its peers that are made either of bone or plastic. Today they are used occasionally only for high quality jobs.
- Knife folders use knife to force the paper getting into the roller for folding.
- Buckle folder will convert a sheet into buckle so as to pass it between the two rotating rollers.
Assembling: In assembly, there are three main steps which should be followed – gathering, collating and
inserting. - Gathering is a method of placing bunch of sheets one after another. This is done for assembling books with page thicknesses ranging between 3 to 8 inches.
- Collating is a process of gathering individual sheets of paper instead of bunch of papers. The last step will be inserting involves the process of combining signatures or bunch of papers by “inserting” one into another. Inserting is done for the papers with signature pieces having final thickness less than one-half inches.
Biding
In this category, the printed material or pages are stick together. Three most common binding
techniques which are used are- adhesive binding, side binding and saddle binding. For completing
binding process, three individual types of covers are used. They are –
- self-covers
- soft-covers
- case-bound covers.
Some of the job profiles in this field are
- Printing Worker,
- Prepress Technician,
- Press workers and Software designer for print industry.