Second draft of printing methods

University of Cheshunt -Administration department

To: Mrs. A Liner Head if Administration

From: Leonie Lynagh
Date: Thursday 22nd February 2012

Report into printed materials for ‘Top Note’ award ceremony
I have been asked to research five printed products for this event: posters invitations for award winners and VIPs and program sheets for all guests. The requirements for each is listed below.

Requirements

Posters - Should be designed by an art student and reflect the creative nature of the award winners’ work.30 posters would be sufficient for the university site to put around the university to advertise the event.

Invitations-should have a high and expensive quality feel to them as this is the most important award the department gives each year. There will be 40 award winners and 25 VIP guests.
The program is only a running order and can be mass printed on A5 paper so it does not have to be high quality.300 should be enough to cover the largest number of guest expected meaning we will have to produce
A lot and spending the least amount of money.

Below I have listed the printing methods, I would use for each one after analyzing five types of printing method.

A high status invitation card for prizewinners and important guests-

The printing method I would use is letterpress. This is because it is used for special occasions, such as the art and music award ceremony. Furthermore it takes time (slow process) and precision and allot of effort and craftsmanship for each individual one unlike if it was offset litho which wouldn’t take long also for it to be high status the printing is very expensive around £320for what we ant and its also expensive due to the time and skill needed to make it look perfect and will cost around such as lining the letter press making the letters from melted silver metal and machinery (letterpress) and ink. Furthermore the end quality is of a high quality and would fit with the aim of a high status invitation. Lastly I would only need to make a few because not every one is a prizewinners or a special guest so due to it taking long could be a disadvantage however due to it only being a few it would hopefully not take to long and would look a higher quality than digital printing due to it digital printing doesn’t give crisp picture and doesn’t enhance the picture.


A running order sheet for everyone who attends-

The printing methods, I would use is offset litho because its efficient, cheap, and relatively easy this would tie in with my aim because we need a lot of invitations done very fast to get them out also you couldn’t use letterpress because it is very expensive and take a longer period of time to create and this is very cheap unlike the other printing methods. Furthermore why it may be cheap around £100 is because we don’t need may people to do it (work the machines) and doesn’t take much skill because the machines do most of the work and they can work 24/7 the process the machines do is the ink duct roller machine this delivers ink from the ink duct to the ink pyramid. Also Called the 'Ink Train’. The ductor roller, sometimes called a vibrator roller due to its rapid back and forth motion, transfers ink from the duct roller to the first distribution roller. It is never in contact with both rollers at the same time.
I will need to make around 100 or more due to all the parents who are coming; Making this a cheaper method which fits perfectly with the criteria.

An arty stylish poster for the event-

The method I would use for an arty stylish poster taken into account I would need a lot t put around the school u would use digital printing (computer printer) due to it can produce just the amount of posters we need around (500) for a reasonable price due to the process doesn’t need expensive metal printing plates meaning the price you have to pay is lowered and also because you could do the process at home without needing an expert it reduces the cost dramatically unlike letterpress which needs an expert to produce the product, the quality is in the middle due to sometimes printing can produce streaks over solid colour areas however the cheapness (£80) and the quickness outweighs the negatives.