Printer Machines for High Quality Postcards

by Jacques Di Salvia

The most lucrative way of advertising your company’s products or services are through postcards. They not only conveniently reach your perspective customers but they’re considered cost effective as well.

The real meaning of success in any promotional campaign is to be able to reach the targeted sectors of the market. In this instance, the quality of the printed postcards plays an integral part in the success of the campaign. Therefore, if your design and information is not of a very high standard then it is more than likely that your output will reflect that too. The success of your campaign also relies on the output and so if the printing machine that is used does not print in high-resolution graphics then all of your efforts will seem to have been wasted.

Earlier, postcards used to get printed only in offset presses, but advancement of printing technology and introduction of digital presses have changed the scenario. Digital presses offer more flexibilities and options without sacrificing on quality. You can choose from the wide range of design template as per your choice and merge your mailing list with the design to be printed in the final postcards.

There are lots of features offered by digital printer manufacturers for their digital presses. High-quality prints are always produced on machines from global leaders like Kodak, hp and Canon. Their sophisticated systems incorporate paper transfer and printing technology. All of these operations are handled through a control panel electronically.

Gloss, matte and pearl finishes are used to print postcards and these come in a variety of thickness too. Most machines can print A3-sized paper. 4000 sheets of A4 sized paper can be printed in an hour using four different colors. Black and white printouts use A4 sheets also and the quantity per hour is 16000 duplicates.

You can download your postcard design directly from the World wide web and it can be seen on the monitor located in the control panel. The print jobs can be prioritized by placing the jobs in queue and based on priority.

Both sides of a postcard can be printed simultaneously if you wish to save time printing them. A main feature of these types of printing machines is the variable data because it has the capability to make each printed postcard look care about it was customized and is unique from all others. Now you can see why digital printing has become popular in the postcard printing business.

After the printing is done, the printed sheet is given the final shape of postcard by slicing and trimming. However, it may be sent to other operations like UV varnishing, embossing, and leafing in case special effects are needed. Nevertheless, digital printing is suggested for short-run jobs and having stipulation for variable data printing, but for long run jobs offset printing is still preferred.

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