What is Prepress? Packaging Prepress Services offered by CG Premedia

Before we understand the Prepress services industry, we first need to understand and know what progress is. 

The dictionary meaning of press is “ Relating to composition, page layout, and other work done on a publication before it is printed.” 

Broadly speaking, it is a term used by the printing and publishing industry for the processes, and procedures happening between the final printing and creation of a print layout. A computerized prepress machine acknowledges data electronically and changes the information onto a printing plate which is at last used to move your records onto paper while on press. 

We, at CG Premedia, take pride in our experienced team, as they not just deliver perfection, but also save significant time in the entire process.

Basics of Prepress, Preparing Your Design to Be Printed

The prepress process begins with the submission of the final artwork from the graphics team to the printing production team. Below are a few steps involved by CG Premedia in their packaging prepress services: 

1. Proofreading

There are two types of proofreading involved:-

1. Linguistic
2. Prepress proofreading

Linguistic: Checking grammar, and spelling, ensuring the language is the same that displays the vision of the company. 

Prepress Proofreading: Addressing the visual allure of the text from a realistic angle. Search for dividing words toward the finish of line breaks, the length of lines themselves, and even text dispersing. The important thing to know about is keeping up with reliable line lengths while breaking sentences. Longer or more limited lines stick out and can truly lose the overall consistency in a square of text on the off chance that not separated as expected.

2. Font Spacing

Classic typography methodology like changing the main, following, and kerning of your text is integral to making the one-of-a-kind look you need to make your design stick out.

The whole picture is a composition: every accentuation mark, letter, square of negative space, and section should work strongly with the others to make a consistent encounter for the watcher of your plan.

3. Markup

Markup is an artificial language utilizing a bunch of annotations to text that gives guidelines regarding the design of the message or the way things are to be shown. Markup language in recent years has also been used in computer typesetting. They are also used as a word processing system.

4. Image size and Resolution

It’s important to double-check the final artwork before it goes into print. This means we check not just the image resolution, we also check the resolution of the entire draft. We don’t want our images to be blurry post-print. Use the highest resolution possible. 

5. Computer to Plate (CTP)

CTP is the transfer of an image from a computer to a plate. A CTP device imprints the image from the computer to the printing plate using lasers. We use plates made of different materials, depending on the needs of the printing method. We usually use rubber, plastic, and aluminum plates.

6. Color Accuracy (CMYK vs RGB) 

With regards to printing your designs, what you see on screen is in many cases not what you get from the printer. One method for guaranteeing that what you see on your screen will match what emerges from the printer is to look at the current color mode of the design.

Design programs utilize the RGB variety mode by default. Printers, in any case, utilize the CMYK interaction to overlay various powers of each tone and make the full scope of varieties. This added substance process — instead of the subtractive RGB framework — includes adding variety to make further tones while heading to black, not adding light to get away from black.

7. Screen Calibration

One more method for guaranteeing variety precision is to align your screen before you print. Whenever you are printing model drafts, the genuine tone of your varieties can undoubtedly be lost by an incorrect screen.

Visual planners and photographic artists have a scope of instruments to take a look at the variety and precision of their pictures prior to sending a plan off to the press, and ensuring your symbolism is right before you send your specs to the press can rapidly save you a ton of cash in misprints.

8. Bleed and Crop Marks

These marks demonstrate the edges of your plan and where cuts ought to be made whenever things are printed.

Crop marks demonstrate where the design will be cut, and the bleed is where portions of text or articles reach out past the page limit to make up for managing. The slug is a region that is well outside the drain that highlights printer directions, extra data on the print, and other need-to-know stuff about the gig. Disregarding the bleed will run you the gamble of having a white boundary along one side, where the actual paper reached out past your design plan. 

9. Imposition Care

The process of arranging all the pages of design on the paper to print faster and reducing extra paper waste is called Imposition.

10. High-Resolution PDF

Pdf is the lossless printable file format used to save the proof. We use pdf to ensure that designs are printed as is. 

11. Selection of Paper

This is the last step of the process, we choose the right paper depending on the material, and branding. Structural and engineering are also considered in this phase. 

At CG Premedia Prepress Services, we carry out the processes of content generation and refinement is separate from Prepress tasks. We use this to ensure that the highest quality standards are met in line with the vision of the brands that we are supporting. The set of procedures that we use is “Workflow”. 

CG Premedia is backed by Creative Graphics. Creative graphics is an undisputed leader in the market for over 2 decades when it comes to printing plates and the technology behind the Prepress. CG Premedia has a team of professionals who take pride in their work and work closely with the brands to ensure that vision of the brand is conveyed to the customers via a perfect packaging design.