TRAINING REPORT

NUTECH PHOTOLITHOGRAPHERS

SUBMITTED TO: Mr. Pankaj Tiwari Astt. Prof. in Printing Deptt.

SUBMITTED BY: Kuldeep Roll No. 10032039 B.tech III Year(Ptg)

Department of Printing Technology Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology Hisar - 125001 (Haryana) (Session 2010-2014)

ACKNO WLEDEMENT CKNOWLEDEMENT I would like to express my heartist and sincere thanks to NUTECH PHOTOLITHOGRAPHERS for giving me the opportunity to undergo this training. This report is a result of our effort in understanding and analying the various factors but this report would not have been possible without sincere help and constant encouragement rendered by the people working in Nutech Photolithographers. I would like to pay special regards and thanks to Aashish Rav(Head Planing Deptt.) and Pankaj Sharma(gjust senior) for his guidance and showing his keen interset that helped me in materialinzing the work. Our appreciation also extands to the heads of all the departments in Nutech Photolithographers for helping me in gathering all the information related to the training; which will be of greatly help full in future. They provided us with all the valuable and related information to complete the report.

CONTENTS
1. Introduction 2. Different Material Printed by company 3. Clients of Nutech 4. Pre-Press Department 5. Press Department 6. Post-Press Department 7. Quality Check 8. Packing Department 9. Dispatch Section

Historic Development:
Nutech started as a small print unit in 1970 and today, it has diversified into sisterfields such as packaging and security printing. Today, operating out of eleven plants, Nutech is among the top printing services provider in india and south Asia. With a battery of single and multi-color presses and high speed soft and hard cover binding lines is geared to handle varied requirements. With almost a four decade legancy, it offer pre-press, press and finishing facilities to the Publishing industry, Commercial and Packaging Jobs to corporates with the help of 400 plus workforce in our three plants across indias captial city, New Delhi. It produce any trim size of I/c, 2/c, 4/c printing and offer both hard and softcover binding, which are inclusive of smyth and adhesive. Our mix of work runs from basic I/c paperback to high-end 4/c coffiee table/childrens book, school text books, dictionaries and much more.

About Company:
Nutech Photolithographers was founded in 1970 by father of Mr. Ravi Shroff. Now it is handled by Mr. Ravi Shroff sucessfully. The company has now eleven plants, three of which is situated around Delhi. Company uses the advanced technology of printing in offset. It has highly trained operators and workers. Every work is handled very carefully. Special care is given on quality control. Every job is handled in a planned way. It has a printing plant in Faridabad by name NUTECH PRINT SERVICES. Recently company setup another plant in Walbbgarh.

Ph. 011-40564949, 40566681 E-mail: sales@nutech.in Website: www.nutech.in

Address: Phase-I, B-240 Okhla, New Delhi

Director: Mr. Ravi Saroff

Mob: 98100-06797 HRD: Mr. B.P. Misra Mob: 98183-57842

Types of Product Printed in Company

1. Catalogues 2. Leaflet 3. Booklet 4. Books 5. Magazine 6. Posters 7. Brochure 8. Calenders

Clients of Nutech
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sanket Communication Viva Publication Rupa Walker Wolter Thieme Times of India Nupa Media Transasia Pearson Black And Darker Usha Hyper-Collions

Printing Stages
1. Press-Press: Steps before printing 1. Design 2. CTP(Computer to Plate) 3. Processor 2. Press: In this printing is done. There are three types of machines. Mitsubisi Printex Akiyama

3. Post-Press: Processes after printing

Cropping Machine Lamination Die-Stamping Foil and Embossing Folding Nipping Sewing Machine Perfect binding UV Coating Machine Creasing Stiching Machine 3-Side trimming Flow-line Machine

PREPRESS DEPARTMENT
The working in any press started from pre-press section. The page is being prepared in advanced through different operations in this department through Mac Softwares and IBM PC so that page can be seen clearly on computer screen and after that a client can see through EPSON prior to printing. Hence a hold is made on print quality, size, colors etc. Equipments in PrePress 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Personal Computer Apple Mac CTP(Computer to Plate) Imagesetter Mercury Lamp for exposure Data Store Unit (Lacie) Densitometer for film Plotter Inkjet Printer Roll Scanner

The detail of prepress work is given below:

Job Card :
The order for printing of any job is taken from a client. Then an electronic or manual Job Card is made by taking the instruction from the client. A Job Card gives all the information about the Job, likewise: Job Card Number, Client Name, Quality of Job, Print Size, Open Size, Close Size, Color of Job, Size of the Job and much more that required for printing the Job. This Job card is sent to all the departments.

Designing
Designing is the soul of the printing and packaging. Designer should have good knowledge of printing i.e. gripper, print area and color planning. Generally designer concentrate on the creativity when printing Job because problem occurs while printing such as smaller text matter in reverse color, picture quality and resolutin etc. In this section, Job which is sent by the client is made for editing and modification.

Imposition
It is the process of adjusting the pages so that after folding, all the pages folio comes in series. The next step after designing is imposition. In this process we paste all the page ona single paste board. Generally we make the imposition of 16 and 32 pages. Software used for imposition: Flat-worker

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Proofing
It is the process of checking the sample of the print job. We prepares one sample and proof readers check this. This is sent to the client. There is not any further progress till the client not give Ok of proof. If there is any defect, it is improved first before further work.

Ripping
It is the process of converting the file in bit form. In ripping we separates the colors. We can not open Rip file, because it is in bit form. Ripping converts RGB file in CMYK mode. Software used : True-flow. After Ripping the file is further sent to the Image-setter or CTP

Imagesetter
It is an equipment used for preparing positive or negative form the soft copy of origional. We can obtain desire size of positive or negative. There are two unit in an imagesetter : 1 Exposure unit 2. Developer unit

Exposure unit:
Soft file is send to this unit in bit form. Laser beams exposes the emulsion coated film. Mostly drum type imagesetter is used. This unit automatically pickup required emulsion film from the roll.

Developer unit:
After exposure film comes in the developer unit. There are many rollers in this unit. Soft emulsion is washed away, film gets dry by hot air. According to exposure we get required positive or negative.

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COMPUTER TO PLATE
CTP(Computer To Plate): After designing, imposition and proofing the file is sent to the CTP lab for plate making. Before sending to CTP, the file is changed in bit form. CTP receives file in the form of signals. Pre-sensitized plate is inserted in the platesetter. Signals of file activate the laser beam source in the platesetter. In general a single plate is exposed for 3 to 4 mins. After exposure, plate is inserted in the developing unit. Developing unit wash the soft area. Heater attached in the developing unit which dries the plate, and last roller applies a layer of unifin gum arebic adhesives.

Wipe-On-Plates
Wipe on plates are similar to the surface plates. These are uncoated grain plates. The light sensitive diazo-resin coating is applied by the plate maker. Aluminium plate is used for wipe-on. These are cheaper than PS plates.

Negative Type Aluminium Wipe-On Plates

(1) Graining: It is the surface roughening process of plate, so that the capacity of plate to hold coating and fountain solution increases. Rotatry Tub graining method is applied for graining. Pre-used plates are used for further use. The plates are fitted in the tub and 20mm dia. glass balls are filled over the plate. Some water and solid concrete as an abrasive material is added in the tub. It is now rotated. Due to rubbing of balls and abrasive material with plate, the plate surface structure changes. One plate is grained about 40 minutes. (2) Wash and Dry: After graining plate is throughly washed and let it dry.

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(3) Coating: Coating is first prepared by mixing the diazo powder with the liquid base solution immediately before use. The coating is applied on the dry aluminium plate. Now it is dried in dark place. (4) Exposure: Negative is applied in correct registration on the plate. Then it exposed in exposure box. Generally each plate is exposed for 220 sec. (5) Development: Lacquer emulsion is used to remove unexposed coating from the nonimage areas. After these gum Arebic is applied over the plate surface.

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PRESS DEPARTMENT
OFFSET PRINTING
INTRODUCTION: The term offset printing is generally associated with lithographic process . But the offset printing can be applied to a varity of printing process. In offset printing, the ink is not directly applied from the printing plate to the substrate as in case of gravure, flexo and letterpress. The ink first transfer to the rubber blanket and then transferred to the substrate.

Types Of Offset Printing: It is of two types (a) Sheet-Fed Offset Printing (b) Web-Fed Offset (a) Sheet-Fed Process: In this type of presses, the substrate is fed into the press one by one sheet at very high speed. (b) Web-fed presses: This types of printing presses use continuous roll of substrate. It is later cut in required size.

OFFSET PRINTING is widely used printing technique where the inked image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat image carrier on which the image to be printed obtaioned ink from ink rollers while the non printing area attracts a film of water, keeping the non-printing areas ink-free.

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PRINCIPLE: An offset image is produced by transferring the image from an inked printing
plate onto a rubber blanket, then transferring the image from the blanket to a paper rather then transferring directly from the plate to paper has serveral advantages. Paper works as an abrasive on printing plates. If paper is allowed to come directly in contact then the plate will weak soon. The blanket gives the sharp dots and improves plate life.

SHEET-FED OFFSET PRESS OPERATION

The offset presses are composed of four basic units : Feeder, Registration, Printing and Delivery. 1. Feeder Unit: One method of classifying presses is lay the form of the material sent through the feeder system. The main purpose of feeder unit is to feed the substrate. The feeder unit for a sheet fed offset press must separate the top sheet of paper from the infeed pile, pick it up and deliver it to the registration unit. This process must be done consistantly for each sheet in the pile, only one sheet can be fed at a time, and each must reach the registration unit at a precise moment to be registered and sent to printing unit. A detailed study of completed automatic feeding unit may be divided into the following unit may be divided into the following groups: (a) Pile Board (c) Sheet lifting and Forwarding (e) Sheet Register (a) Pile Board It is also called feed board end of the machine. The Printing sheets are placed on its surface after proper jogging. The different parts of sheet board as under (a) Front Stopper (b) Side Stopper (c) Back Separation (d) Side Adjusting Screw (b) Sheet Separation (d) Sheet Controls

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(b) Sheet Separation

In modern sheet-fed offset machines, only the back separation system of automatic feeding is used. Sheets are forwarded streamly and overlapping each-other in this process. The main part of this automatic feeder is its air sucking system. Suckers Separate and lift only one sheet from top of paper pile. Main parts: 1. Air Blower 2. Brushes 3. Blower Foot

(c) Sheet lifting & Forwarding: The lifting & forwarding of the separated sheet from the pile of the paper is done by two two sets of feeding unit. Two rubber piles coming from the compression unit are joined with the lifting and forwarding suckers. 1. Lifting Suckers: Large size of machine has four lifting suckers which are lifted side by side. Both the suckers have metallic nozzles and each nozzle is covered with rubber suckers. 2. Forwarding Sucker: There are two suckers which are similar to lifting sucker. They forward the sheet so that the front edage of the sheet comes between the introduction roll and guide wheel.

(d) Sheet Controls From guide wheel upto front lays there are several parts to transport the sheet all these parts are called sheet controls and described under. 1. Guide Wheel 2. Bosses 3. Endless Tape 4. Sheet Detectors

(e) Sheet Register The term sheet register normally denotes the position of the printed image on the sheet. Here only sheet of paper is prepared to get the correct register in printing. Now a days three point lays system is used. Two of the points are in front and one is at the side.

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1. Front lays: There are two or four in numbers, fitted at the edge in balancing position of the larger side of the sheet. 2. Side Lays: The side edge is registered by the side lay. These are two in machine. They are on operator & gear side.

2. REGISTRATION UNIT: Registration is process of controlling and directing the sheet as it enters the printing unit. The goal of registraion is to ensure the absolute consistancy of image position on every sheet printed. When one color is to be printed over another on a single sheet, the image will not fit unless a single sheet, the image will not fit unless registraion of all the sheets is held throughout the press run. Registration is the alignment of the printing plates as they apply their respective color portion of the image that s being printed. If the plates do not line up perfectly the image will appear out of focus. In printing the registration marks that are present on each plate are positioned correctly with the help of front lays and side lays. Side lays pushed or pulled the paper horizontally and palced in proper position. The front lays nove out of the way and the sheet will move in the printing unit , after a regular interval of time each sheet will enter in the printing unit. The front lays stops the paper for a very-very little time so that a single sheet enters in the printing unit at a time. If the registration is not correct then it will be corrected by adjusting the side lays. * With the help of side lays we can adjust the registration upto 1.5 mm. * If the misregistration is more than 1.5mm than it will be corrected by adjustment of plate. By tightening the plate we can adjust the registration upto 4 mm.

3.PRINTING UNIT: The printing unit places a water solution & ink on the plate, transfers the image on the paper & delivers the paper to the delivery unit. The printing unit must be adjusted so that the proper amount of ink and water solution is deposited on printing plate and so the image is transferred evenly, accurately and consistantly to the printing paper. Every offset printing unit is made up of three parts. a. Cylinder System b. Dampaning System
c. Inking System

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(a) Cylinder System Configuration: The cylinder system for any offset lithographic press has three functional groups, a plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder and an impression roller. The function of plate cylinder is to hold the plate and revolve it into contact with the blanket cylinder during the printing process. The plate cylinder has some form of stamping system that holds the plate sequarely and firmly in place. Ink and water form roller contact in plate while it is attatched to the plate cylinder, thereby causing the image areas to be inked. The causing the image areas to be iked. The causing the image areas to be inked. The plate image is transferred to the blanket cylinder and image is reserved. The press sheet is then passed between the blanket and impression cylinder, Where the image is set back to right reading, The impression cylinder applies athe necessary pressure against the blanket & paper to transfer the image form the blanket to the paper.

(b) Inking Unit: The goal of inking unit is to place a uniform layer of ink across every dimension of printing plate. Inking unit configuration (i) Ink fountain and roller (ii) Ink distributor roller (iii) Ink form roller The ink fountain stores a quantity of ink in a rsservoir and feeds small quantities of ink t the rest of inking system from the fountain roller. The ink distributor rollers receives the ink and work it into a semi liquid state that is uniformly delivered to the ink frome rollers. A thin layer of ink is then transfered to the image portion of the image portion of the plate by the ink form roller.

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(c) Dampening Unit: The most plate function of the principle of water & ink receptive areas. In order for ink to adhere only to the image areas on the plate, a layer of moistyre must be placed over the non-image areas on the plate, a layer of moisture must be placed over the non-image areas before the plate is inked. The dampening system accomplishes this by mi\oistening the plate consistantly throughout the press run. Like inking system, the dampening system also contain some form of fountain a fountain roller, a doctor roller, distributor roller & one or more form rollers. The dampening fontain roller sits in a pool of fountain solution stored in the dampening. As the press runs, the dampening fountain roller turns, picking up fountain solution from the fountain & holding it on its surface. A doctor roller jacks up back and forth touching the fountain roll , where it picks up fountain solution then touching a dampening distributor roller. The distributor roller takes the fountain solution from the roller to the dampening from rollers, where it is transferred to the plates.

Delivery unit :
The delivery unit takes the papers from the printing unit & places are on an outfeed table. As the sheet leaves the printing unit, it is dropped into delivery pile. As the sheet leaves the printing unit, a set of mechanical fingers grap the leading edges of the sheet & pulls is out of the printing system. The gripper bar is attached to a continuous chain that moves the printed sheet to a paer pile releases it and moves the gripper back and & receive another sheet. The chain moves at a same rate and in synchronization with the feeder, registraion & printing units.

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TYPES OF MACHINES
In Nutech Photolithographers, offset process is used for printing. There are four types of machines in company. All mahcines have their different characterstics and jobs are printed as their ability to print. Size of job defines that which mahcine is suited for printing it. These are: 1 2 3 4 Mitsubishi (4 color) Mitsubishi (6 color) Akiyama (2 color) Printex (1/1 color)

Work Flow On Printing Machines: * * * Clean the machine and plate before start printing. According to job card first issue ink, paper and plate. Check the following: a b c d e f g h i * * * * * * * * GSM, Board Thickness, Board Grain No. of issued sheet pH of Dampening Solution(4.8-5.2) IPA (Iso Propyle Alcohol) 8% to 10% Conductivity (0-1500s) Hardness of water (8-10dh) Press room temperature (22-25oc) Temperature of Dampening Solution (10-15oc) Temperature of Inking Unit (28oc)

Clean the printing unit according to the job Setting of feeder and delivery nit according to sheet size. Setting of side lay & double sheet detector Setting of ink duct key according to job Do the registration Check postion of side lays and front lays Check viscosity of varnish (25-30 sec.) Match the shade card with printed job by machine.

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Mitsubishi Diamond V3000 LS (4 color)

Specification of Machine Maximum Printing Speed = 16000 Maximum Sheet Size = 14x21 Maximum Sheet Thickness = 0.6 mm OR 0.024 inch. Minimum Sheet Thickness = 0.04mm OR 0.0016 inch. Maximum Image Area = 740x1050 mm Plate Size = 800x1060 mm. Plate thickness = 0.24 mm. Feeder Stacking Capcity = 1100 mm. Printing Units = 4 Press Height = 2100 mm. Press width = 3900 mm Gripper Margin = 48 mm Other Specification * * * * * * * * * * * * Feeder and delivery sheet size preset system. Remote controlled postioning of separator side guide,feederboard. Vaccum feeder tapes. Pneumatic side lay Sheet feeding speed slowdone device Double sheet detectors High precision ink keys. Activate stabilizied inking system High speed printing startup setup. Three way remote controlled register. Mitsubishi multimade dampening system Automatic preset inking Intelligent press control II (IPCII)

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Mitsubishi Diamond 1000LC(6 color)

Machine Specification * * * * * * * * * * * * * Maximum Sheet Size = 520x720mm Minimum Sheet Size = 273x380mm Maximum Speed = 16000 Minimum Speed = 4500 Sheet thickness Range 0.2 to 0.8mm. Maximum Image Area = 510x720mm Plate Size = 600x730mm Plate thickness = 0.3mm Feed Height = 900mm Delivery Height = 900mm Press Height = 1900mm Press Width = 2500mm Gripper Margin = 50mm

Varnishing:It has extra unit of Varnishing. The Varnishing give the smooth quality on the
print. For varnishing it uses oil based ink. It do varnishing on entire sheet.

AntisetOff Spray: It has antisetoff spray unit. Which spray the powder on entire sheet. It
protects the ink sticking on the back of sheets also reduces the sheet drying time.

Drying: It has heater dryer and blower. Due to heat the ink dry fast. The solvents evaporates due to
heat.

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Akiyama
It is a single side printing machine. It has two color printing unit. Mostly it is used for printing of the matter in Black colour. * Plate Size = 1030x800mm * Maximum Print Paper Size = 39x27.5 inch. * Minimum Print Paper Size = 18x23 inch. * Blanket Size = 1035x922x1.95 mm * General Speed = 4500 to 5000 * Printing Unit = 2

Printex
It is a both side printing machine. It is mostly used for printing in black(k) color matter. It reduces the time of printing. It is fast. It reduces the time consume on one job. Machine Configuration * * * * * Size of Machine = 30x40 Minimum Paper Size = 19x26 Maximum Speed = 10000 Minimum Speeed = 2000 Rollers Dampening Roller = 3 Inking Roll = 8 Plate Size = 1145x915mm Printing Unit = 1/1

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POST PRESS DEPARTMENT

All the operation which are carried out after the press are called Postpress. Following operations are carried out in Nutech Photolithographers. 1. Cropping 2. Folding 3. Sewing 4. Stiching 5. Nipping 6. Perfect Binding 7. Die- cutting 8. Embossing 9. Flow- line Machine 10. Lamination 11. U-V coating 12. Foiling 13 Creasing 14. 3 Edge Trimmer

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(1)Cropping: Cropping means cutting of sheet in required size. For cropping we use a
Cutters. In Nutech computer programmed cutter is used. Name of Machine : Wholenberg Program used in Machine : Easy Cut It is a semi-automatic cutter. It is used for the cutting of the printed sheet in required size. It is computer programmed. We can store in this upto 90 programmes. Also in a single program we can add 90 cutting commands. Means we can do 90 times cutting on one sheet. Total cutting Area is 42 inch Minimum cutting = 2 mm The measure can go behind up to 130 cm. It is safe to work for operator. There are Photocells, which makes the protection.

(2) Folding Machine

* Name of Machine BREHMER
Quantity = 1 Maximum paper size = 28x30 Maximum speed = 6000 sheet/hr. It is a three fold machine. If we want to four fold then we can add fourth unit which is called mobile unit.

* Name of Machine MBO

Quantity = 2 Maximum Speed = 1000/hr Minimum Speed = 2000/hr Maximum Paper size = 28x40 It is a semi-automatic folding machine. It can fold a sheet in three times.

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(3) Sewing Machine

1. Machine Name - Aster-2000 It is a automatic sewing machine used for sewing the book. This machine is computer Programmed. Book size, cutting size are set by using computer program. This machine stops work automatically when the paper or the fold does not go properly inside the mahcine. Machine stops working if there is any error and give sound signal Working of machine * * * * * * Feeding the folding Opening of folding Flow- line Attaching to the plate Sewing by Needle Cutting And Delivery a b

No. of Roll thread 5 to 8 Maximum a = 400 mm Maximum b = 310 mm 2. Machine Name - Aster Headop

The basic difference between 2000 and Headop is, it is manual machine. There is no computer function attached. In this machine book size and cutting size are set manually. Also we have to cut the thread by blade manually. All other feature are same as in Aster -2000

(4) Stiching
It is a stiching machine used for the stich binding of the books, magazine, brouchre etc. The stiching pin are round roll form. The wire is cut in the required size by pressure.

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(5) Nipping
Nipping is process by which we drawn out air from the gap between the pages. The mahcine applies pressure to remove the air , so that the width of the spine becomes according to the size of the book cover. No of Machine = 3 company Name of Machine Joy These are two stroke Machines and are operated by hydrollic pump.

(6) Perfect Binding :

For Perfect Binding three kind of books are used by Nutech. (a) HORIZON MACHINE QTY = 1 It is automatic perfet binding machine. It is computerised programmed. This mahcine alos do the creasing . The covers are applied in big quality from there gripper picks the cover and forward for coeasing. working: The book is applied manually, then the spine of the book is cut by rotating blade. Then main Glue and side glue is attached. Then there is covering , Pressure and delivery sucessively. Temperature of Main glue = 140-160oc Side glue = 120-135oc Nutech uses Technomelt Tack4533 company side glue. (b) well- bound Qty = 1 It is a manual machine. In this machine there are photocell to sense the book. The photocell detect the book and give commeand to the gripper to attach on the cover. The spine of the book is grinded before apply the glue. The bind performed by this book is quite good. (c) Sulby- 2500 QTY = 1 This mahcine is faster than well-bound. Here are ten units of clamp. These units move in round. Each clamp have a book. Main glue and side glue is applied by glue unit. Thi mahcine do not crease the cover and pick up the cover from pile itself.

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(7) Die- cutting:

The die-cutting machine used in Nutech is modified form of Letterpress. A die is made on the wooden plane with the help of long strips of blades and thin iron strips. The blade do the work of cutting and the thin iron strip do as creasing. A die is made up by skilled person. We place sheet of paper on one plane and the die on other plane. Due to pressure the paper cuts in required shape.

(8) Embossing:
Embossing differ from the other surface finishes since it is physical reshaping of paper. Embossing can cause the print to stand out or to sink down. In Embossing a lower die with raised surfaces corresponding to the embossed shape is pressed into the paper against a resistant surfaces, so the Embossing give a raise effect to the printed letter. In Nutech, letterpress machine is used for Embossing.

(9) Flow-line Machine:

In Nutech BREHMER company flow-line machine is used. This mahcine is particularly used for arranging the fold of booklets and magazines in signatyre order. This makes the postpress operations of magazine and small books fast. Operation Performed by Machine * First load all the folds * opening of folds * flow line * centre stiching * 3 edge cutting * Delivery If stiching does not occur properly then the book does not go further for cutting and get stored in rejected piece. These rejected bookelts are then improved manually. Minimum speed = 3000 /hr. Minimum folding size = 6 cm Minimum cutting size a = 15. 5 cm a

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(10) Lamination:
Machine - Thermal Feeder: Each cover sheet or thin paper is feed one by one manually. Process: There is a cylinder in the machine. The cylinder is filled with oil liquid. The oil in the cylinder is heated by electronic heater so that the cylinder becomes heated. Temperature can be attain upto 140c The sheet and the cover comes in contact with the ht cylinder and it laminates on the paper sheet. Cutting: If the cover paper is hard it cuts automatically, due to pressure. In case of thin paper cover all the laminates wraps on the roller given under the machine. Lamination sheet: Two types Lamination foil is used 1. GLoss 2. Matt Gloss have low price than matt also the gloss is more luminious than matt. But quality wise matt sheet is good.

(11) U-V coating:

It is high gloss coating particularly we do on images. For U-V coatng we use screen Printing method. A stencil is prepared according to image position on the sheet. UV emulsion is passed from the open area of the stencil with the help of squeeze . Then the image is placed under uv light source. UV . It can be done after lamination but a special type of roll is used. In this a heater is used and the die is placed above the heater. The temperature of heater is 150190c. Generally we do foiling on rexin- case or cover.

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(12) Foiling:
In this a silver or golden foiling is stamped over the sheet. It is done before lamination or UV. It can be done after lamination but a special type of roll is used. In this a heater is used and the die is placed above the heater. The temperature of heater is 1501900oc Generlly we do foiling on rexin-case or cover.

(13) Creasing :
It is the process of making the pressure line on the cover so that it is easy to fold the cover. Spine width is made by creasing. In Nutech for creasing letterpress machine is used. The cover is placed on one plane and blades are applied on the other plane. Due to pressure cover gets crease. (14) 3.Edge Trimmer: It is a cutter used for the 3 side trimming of books. Trimming means to remove excess of page width. Machine company = origional perfcta SDY

b a

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Max. a = 310 mm Max b = 500 mm Minimum b = 60 mm Speed of the machine is manually adjusted. Counter counts the mahcine It is a hydrolic machine There is a safty guard to protect the operator based on photocell.

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Paper Used for Printing In Nutech Photolithographers

(1) C2S Matt Paper GSM Range 70 to 170 (2) C2S Gloss Paper GSM Range 70 to 170 (3) D- Grade Paper for Rough work (4) Maplitho GSM 40 to 170 (5) SBS Gloss Paper GSM = 190 to 400 (6) Offset Paper

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Quality Check
In this process individual printed product is checked manually. Before packing of the product we individual books or product are check quality wise. If there is any error we removes it before packaging. To check the folio numbers whether these are in series. * * * * * * * * * * * * * Removing of dard points by the help of Rubbers. To check total No. of Pages. The book must be complete. Also we use the thinner to remove blackness or black dots. Unwanted or extera paper is trimmed with blades. Checking of Binding Glue should be adhere properly to each page. Checking of Sewing If any thread is out then cut it. Glue should not be outside of the book. All the page should be of equal size and of same quality. All pages should be neat and clean No page have wear and tear. Apply the stickers logo and hologram if any requirement.

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Packing
After the whole processk, all the goods packed in the corrugated boxes. These boxes are import from other compnies. This box are tied with striping machine. The packing material is choosen from the instruction of client.

Dispatch Section
Finally the packed goods goes to dispatch section for dispatching. Types of job, size and no. of product in a box are mentioned on the box. All the details in dispatch section are made in ERP Software. If the products are prepared more than demand then these are stored in store room.

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