Czech

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The course provides fundamentals knowledges from prepress, press and postpress technologies - about the letter assembly, plates making, about the printing inks, ink transfer in conventional printing, quality control methods, about the digital printing technics, print finishing and book binding.

Koloristika a kolorimetrie
Chemie a technologie výroby papíru

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Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Final comprehensive exam is made in the written form. Sudent has to answer 6 ar 8 complex questions, which will cover all subject of the course. List of questions will be given students at least two week before the exam. List of questions used previously will be given at the bigining of the course. Student will has oportunity to made additional oral notes to answer the questions.

1. Introduction to the printing technology. Printed products, classification, structure and publication characteristics. Print and publishing production processes - prepress, press and postpress. Printing industry.
2. Type and typefaces - historical development, properties, classification, typographical measurements, styles of type and using of type. Digital fonts and code pages. Principles of letter assembly - papers and books sizes, layout of book pages, parts of book, type and paragraph formatting.
3. Sheet planning and assembly, planning layout, imposition, methods of planning. Printing plates, methods of platemaking, quality requirements.
4. Offset lithography printing plates - photomechanical and AgX/DTR methods. Plates for waterless offset. Computer to plate technologies.
5. Letterpress and flexography printing plates, photopolymer plates, CTP technologies. Gravure cylinder preparation, etching and electronic engraving, CTP technologies.
6. Printing inks, drying mechanisms, composition and production. Optical, rheological and functional properties of printing inks. Testing of inks. Types of printing inks.
7. Functions of a printing machine, machine design. Construction of sheet-fed and web-fed offset machines, transport of paper trough a machine. Dampening in offset lithography. Inking system. Impression systems. Printing pressure and blankets, printing nip.
8. Printing nip phenomena - ink transfer to the plate and ink transfer to the paper, ink transfer equations, Walker-Fetsko model. Setting of printing ink on the paper.
9. Quality control in offset lithography printing. Definition the quality of printed matter. Subjective and objective methods of quality control. Dot gain, mechanical and optical dot gain. Measurement of screen value. Densitometry.
10. Print quality assessment - register, slur, solid ink density, dot gain, print contrast, trapping, grey balance. Control strips and automatic systems for quality control.
11. Flexography. Gravure printing. Digital printing.
12. Print finishing. Unite operations in print finishing - cutting, trimming, perforating, punching, embossing, foil blocking. Folding and folding machines. Varnishing and laminating.
13. Bookbinding. Styles of binding. Methods of binding in soft cover. Methods of binding in hard cover, case binding.

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The lectures deals with concepts, definitions and principles of printing technology. The goal of the lecture from Printing technology is to explain fundamental principles of the prepress, press and postpress technologies. The task of the lectures is to allow student independent orientation in the printing technology and prepare them for further study in this area.

Regular consultation, at least 4-times a semester. A test in e-learning.

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Panák J., Záhumenský L.: Technológia tlače, , 0 (CS)

Najbrt V. a kol.: Redaktor v tiskárně, , 0 (CS)
Šalda J.: Od rukopisu ke knize a časopisu, , 0 (CS)
Šalda J., Svoboda L.: Přehled polygrafie, , 0 (CS)