Graphic arts

Graphic arts is the applied trade-skills of a print technician. It includes the trades of lithography, serigraphy and bindery. Graphic arts as a trade can be traced back to the first instances of the stamped word.

Early history

Only with the invention of printing stamps in China, and then later adapted in Italy, and then the Gutenberg press, did the trade ever become distinct in and of itself.

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Lithography

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Serigraphy

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Bindery

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Tools of the trade

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• Computers and software
• Process camera work, registration, crop marks & masking
• Cutting edge technologies

From digital proof to plate to press.

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