Link Media use the most advanced commercial and industrial digital printing presses, providing on demand customised printing solutions.
Printing using HP Indigo's legendary quality and features with unsurpassed durability and capability, the HP Indigo press is the perfect solution for those looking for low cost printing of posters, flyers, business cards and more.
Every printed impression made onto the paper can be different, as opposed to making several hundred or thousand impressions of the same image from one set of printing plates, as in traditional methods. We can account for personalised business cards, cheap poster printing and large turn around a3 posters.
There is less wastage in terms of chemicals used and paper wasted in set up (bringing the image "up to colour" and checking registration or position). Less waste means we can bring printing to you at a lower cost to you.
For quality business cards and posters the digital press Ink or Toner does not absorb into the substrate, as does conventional ink, but forms a thin layer on the surface and may in some systems be additionally adhered to the substrate by using a fuser fluid with heat process (toner) or UV curing process (ink).
Because of the lack of a need to make plates or run up to colour, it is useful for rapid prototyping, and cost effective printing for small print runs such as promotional flyers, office stationery and print proofs.
Digital Printing is used for personalised printing, or variable data printing (VDP or VI), for example personalised business cards, which are customised with the specific person's name and images. Print on Demand (POD) systems also use digital printing, for short run books of varying page quantities, and binding techniques.
The main uses for HP Indigo presses include general commercial printing, posters, flyers, business cards, printed labels, flexible packaging, folding carton and specialty printing. Its ability to print without films and plates enables it to create personalised short runs, changing text, images and jobs without having to stop the press. HP Indigo digital presses are particularly well-suited to consumer-generated web-to-print applications ranging from business cards to photobooks.
The technology used is based on HP ElectroInk, which uses small colour particles suspended in Imaging Oil (Isopar) that can be attracted or repelled by means of a voltage differential. The ink forms a very thin and smooth plastic layer on the paper surface. The fact that these particles are so small ensures that the printed image does not mask the underlying surface roughness/gloss of the paper, as can be possible with some toner-based processes, bringing Indigo printing closer in appearance to conventional offset lithography, whereby Ink is actually absorbed into the paper.
The largest standard size, A0, has an area of 1 m?. The length of the long side of the sheet in metres is the 4th root of 2—approximately 1.189 metres. The short side is the reciprocal of this number, approximately 0.841 metres. A1 is formed by cutting a piece of A0 into two equal area rectangles. Because of the choice of lengths, the aspect ratio is the same for A1 as for A0 (as it is for A2, A3, etc). This particular measurement system was chosen to allow folding of one standard size into another, which cannot be accomplished with traditional paper sizes.
CMYK (short for cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black), and often referred to as process color or four color) is a subtractive color model, used in color printing, also used to describe the printing process itself. Though it varies by print house, press operator, press manufacturer and press run, ink is typically applied in the order of the abbreviation.