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Why do we use offset printing?

Offset printing, as opposed to digital printing, uses real inks that are absorbed into the paper, and they will stay there no matter how hot it gets (outside of burning the page of course). This does of course mean larger quantities of printing, but in the long run this can often be more cost-effective and save you the trouble of finding out the hard way that the digitally printed project wasn't laser safe.

The term laser-safe might sound like it was lifted from the script of the new Star Wars movies. In the world of print and stationery, however, it is an important technical term that could save you from an expensive mess on your hands. Digital presses use toner, and that toner is fused to a paper with heat. As your design is passed through the printer, the 4 color toners are essentially melted onto the paper. The problem one encounters is that each press or printer melts this toner at different temperatures. If you take a digitally printed letterhead and run it through your office laser printer in you will once again be heating the toner on the paper. This can lead to that toner lifting off the page, and this can lead to to some bad effects.

One of those effects is called ghosting. This is when something printed on the page is repeated in a faint copy where it doesn't belong. The result is a dirty and unusable print, wasting paper, time, and money. The second possible effect is considerably worse. When you run the digitally printed letterhead through your laser printer and the heat lifts off the toner, it may not lead to ghosting, but rather to an effect known as " you need to buy a new fuser for your printer." This occurs because all that toner has gunked up the inside of your printer, and now you are seeing smears and hickeys on anything you run through your printer. Depending on the printer you run the letterhead through, this could be an expensive repair.

The other option is avoid the office laser printer, and choose an inkjet printer instead for imprinting. The key here is that an inkjet printer, as its name implies, uses ink and not toner. This means you won't be reheating the printed work, and can avoid all the problems associated with whether or not a letterhead, etc. is laser safe or not. Of course, the caveat is that inkjet prints tend to be quite a bit more expensive than laser prints.

We know you want the best for your business, Sometimes though there are technical challenges in printing that make certain things difficult. Providing laser safe printing is one of those challenges.

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