Team Impression - Printer's Visit

Today I went to visit 'Team Impression' printer's, to have a look around and gain an insight to the print production side of design work.

(I have sourced some information from their website: http://www.team-impression.com/ )

''Team Impression is a long established Leeds-based printing and finishing company, with a comprehensive range of in-house facilities from litho to digital and packaging.

What they do:

Litho: With two B1 and one B2 6-colour Komori presses running 24/7, we have the capacity to handle any job, no matter how big or small.

Digital: Three state-of-the-art Indigo presses with results that push the boundaries of digital printing.

Display: Our Fuji Acuity large format output device is flexible and versatile, capable of high quality printing on virtually any substrate up to 48mm thick onto a huge 2.5m x 1.25m wide.

Finishing: Foiling, embossing, die-cutting, folding, binding, varnishing, sealing... it might be easier to list an aspect of finishing that we don’t do in-house.

Presentation: You pick your materials and we’ll put them onto board for you. Hand finished boxes, intricate folders, complicated display materials. You name it, our in-house presentation department can put it together for you.''

 

Whilst there we were shown around the offices, in which print costs are estimated, and were shown their organisation of each print jobs for all the different machines. We then went around the workshops and shown all the printing machines and samples from them. There was also a section were hand crafting was done, and a seperate workshop for all the special finishes such as foil blcoking/embossing and die cutting.

I took some photos whilst we were shown around:

The Print Workshop-

Litho:

CMYK plates:

Cian-

 Magenta-

 Yellow-

 Black-

 Before print-

Digital Print:

This Fuji Acuity large format output device is flexible and versatile, capable of high quality printing on virtually any substrate up to 48mm thick onto a huge 2.5m x 1.25m wide.

 Screen print-

Foil Blocking printer-

 Die Cutter-

 Die Cutting stencils-

Here are some examples of finished pieces of work, printed by Team Impression:

''JD Sports Annual Report and Accounts 2010- The cover, printed on Colorplan Prisine White, features an exceptionally crisp embossed headline set in a caption balloon of clear foil and a silver foil title'':

 

Overall I enjoyed this experience and found it interesting to realise how design work can be affected by print, and vice versa. I have also become more aware of the cost of different print processes and how that too can be affected by the finishes and hand crafting