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Printing on almost any machine

June 11th, 2006

Hello,

Lenticular - 3D printing has come a long way. Today’s printers are versatile and can accept many types of substrates. Lenticular can be printed on offset and digital printers with relative ease and productivity.

Digital printers run the spectrum from the low end Epson Stylus series to the high-end Nur flat-bed printers. The common denominator is that these digital printers are commonly used for short runs and to print poster size images.  Digital printing can be done in two ways:

• Print the image on paper (photo quality) and then have it laminated onto the lenticular.
• Print directly on the lenticular. These can be done with many larger flatbeds such as the Nur – where the lenses have been treated with a special solvent.

Offset printing is for the masses and is very doable today.  Many professional printers have invested in presses dedicated to lenticular printing. Offset printing can be used to mass-produce fine quality 3D images for magazine covers, notebook covers, postcards and many more applications. In general the offset printing is done on soft lenticular that is 60LPI and higher.

More later.

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