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The debate about which printing method is the highest quality and most suitable today will probably never end. Interesting facts periodically emerge, new technologies appear, forcing printers to rush from laser to jet, from offset to digital and back. Nevertheless, we have determined for ourselves what is needed to achieve ideal printing quality on plastic cards. We will tell, explain and show you in detail! Let 's take two plastic cards that give us bonuses in two large brand clothing chains. One of them is printed on a jet, the other using the offset method. Both have been carried around in the wallet for several years now.
Offset and jet. 1. Banding 2. Insufficient image clarity - blurring at the edges 3. Problems with printing small fonts 4. Poor adhesion of the laminate to the plastic, so over time problems with peeling laminate at the edges of the cards appeared.
Additional difficulties that are not noticeable at first glance, but which arise at the production stage: 1. High cost per unit of production for large print runs, if printing using the inkjet method 2. The jet cannot print with pantone paints (which, by the way, allow you to achieve ideal color rendition) Here it is worth being honest, so we will note that the offset method has one major drawback - printing small print runs is too expensive! In this case, we recommend printing on a laser printer - at first glance, a laser is practically indistinguishable from an offset printer in quality. However, a laser cannot cover the entire color spectrum, so some rich and bright colors are simply beyond its capabilities.
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Offset and jet. 1. Banding 2. Insufficient image clarity - blurring at the edges 3. Problems with printing small fonts 4. Poor adhesion of the laminate to the plastic, so over time problems with peeling laminate at the edges of the cards appeared.
Additional difficulties that are not noticeable at first glance, but which arise at the production stage: 1. High cost per unit of production for large print runs, if printing using the inkjet method 2. The jet cannot print with pantone paints (which, by the way, allow you to achieve ideal color rendition) Here it is worth being honest, so we will note that the offset method has one major drawback - printing small print runs is too expensive! In this case, we recommend printing on a laser printer - at first glance, a laser is practically indistinguishable from an offset printer in quality. However, a laser cannot cover the entire color spectrum, so some rich and bright colors are simply beyond its capabilities.
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