offset printing
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impresión offset
- The brochure was produced using offset printing, resulting in vibrant colors and sharp images.
- offset printing uses
Examples
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Printing these materials is generally done by using modern offset printing or prepress that is now available on the market.
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Offset printing was used for the fabrication of capacitors and printed and plated metal lines as narrow as 25 micrometers.
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Offset printing makes the quality of your print edition the same in all the pages, giving it a large and professional appearance and appeal.
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Mark, I have been self-publishing by offset printing for 20 years.
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Digital printers work differently from the printing process used in offset printing.
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Offset printing uses a soft planar intermediate medium to improve the transfer quality from the master to the substrate.
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Swimming Pools consists of ten photographs in four-color offset printing, spread out over sixty-four white pages.
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As a scientist, he holds patents on hardeners for film emulsions and on offset printing plates used in graphic arts color printing presses.
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It features how-to advice on screenprinting, scanning, xerography, and offset printing by Jordan Crane, Brian Ralph, David Choe, and Ron Rege, Jr.
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Many businesses choose offset printing for its ability to deliver high-quality prints in bulk.
Synonyms
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A printing method that moves ink from a plate to a rubber surface and then to paper
A way of printing where ink moves from a plate to a rubber sheet, then to paper for many copies
A printing method that uses a metal plate and a rubber sheet to print images on paper
A way of printing that uses plates made from photographs to copy pictures and text
How Traditional
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- Archaic
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'offset' denotes a specific ink-transfer method and 'printing' denotes the process, so the combined meaning is simply 'printing that uses the offset method.' This is a standard 'method + process' noun construction found across languages and would be inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Offset printing comes from the way the image is not printed directly from the metal plate onto the paper but is first pressed onto a soft rubber blanket, which then presses the image onto the paper. That's why the name shows this 'offset' or 'transfer' method of printing.