Eighth entry- Visual Technology for Dissemination

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Good day, everyone! How do you do? So for the last week entry, we focused and explored on Adobe Photoshop whereas we learned on how to manipulated images and combining many images into a single image, with special effects and unique and mindblown backgrounds. So today, we are going to explore on image technology printing, CD-ROM and web, and as well as producing images for the three main subjects earlier.

We start off our entry with image technology printing. What is actually an image technology printing? Are we familiar with these terminologies? Well, luckily I have the answers that you needed.  Image Technology Printing or Digital printing refers to methods of printing from a digital-based image directly to a variety of media. It usually refers to professional printing where small-run jobs from desktop publishing and other digital sources are printed using large-format and/or high-volume laser or inkjet printers. Digital printing has a higher cost per page than more traditional offset printing methods, but this price is usually offset by avoiding the cost of all the technical steps required to make printing plates. It also allows for on-demand printing, short turnaround time, and even a modification of the image (variable data) used for each impression. The savings in labor and the ever-increasing capability of digital presses means that digital printing is reaching the point where it can match or supersede offset printing technology's ability to produce larger print runs of several thousand sheets at a low price. 

Examples of digital printers that were used to print bigger size of images

History of printing

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220, and woodblock printing remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century. Ukiyo-e is the best known type ofJapanese woodblock art print. Most European uses of the technique for printing images on paper are covered by the art term woodcut, except for the block-books produced mainly in the 15th century.

Examples of block printing in the early days 

Tibetan monks engraves wordings on woodblocks

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220, and woodblock printing remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century. Ukiyo-e is the best known type ofJapanese woodblock art print. Most European uses of the technique for printing images on paper are covered by the art term woodcut, except for the block-books produced mainly in the 15th century.

Modern days

There are nine main types of printing processes:

Offset lithography

What we are exploring in this article

Engraving

Think fine stationery

Thermography

Raised printing, used in stationery

Reprographics

Copying and duplicating

Digital printing

Limited now, but the technology is exploding

Letterpress

The original Guttenberg process (hardly done anymore)

Screen

Used for T-shirts and billboards

Flexography

Usually used on packaging, such as can labels

Gravure

Used for huge runs of magazines and direct-mail catalogs

Disk Images

Disk images, in computing, are computer files containing the contents and structure of a disk volume or an entire data storage device, such as a hard drive, tape drive, floppy disk, optical disc or USB flash drive. A disk image is usually created by creating a sector-by-sector copy of the source medium, thereby perfectly replicating the structure and contents of a storage device independent of the file system. Depending on the disk image format, a disk image may span one or more computer files.

Disk image file formats may be open standards, such as the ISO image format for optical disc images, or proprietary to particular software applications.

As disk images contain the contents of entire disks, they can be huge. Some disk imaging utilities are filesystem-aware and can omit copying unused space from the source media, or compress the disk they represent to reduce storage requirements.

So far, we have cover digital images making and processing. That’s it for today folks! The next entry, I will explored more on Production on Static Visual Product, emphasized on banners, pamphlets and so on. See you soon! Fighting!