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PrintPapa is Now a G7 Master Printer

It is a great pleasure for PrintPapa to have attained the G7 Master certification. This certification is a mark of the company’s success and supremacy in the printing industry. The G7 Master certification marks the superb quality of service that is provided by PrintPapa. Founded in 2004, this company has taken rapid strides to grow from a copy shop to one of the niche leaders. A key reason for its growth is the dedication to bring the latest in the field of offset printing. There are many new technologies pouring into the printing industry everyday and PrintPapa upgrades their services and technologies to meet all the demands of their customers.

What does G7 Master Certification mean?

Attaining the G7 Master certification is a major feather in the cap for a printing company like PrintPapa. The G7 certification is given to only those printing companies, agencies or prepress service providers that are trained to use G7 Proof-to-Point Process and those that can produce proofs or are in a position to print to G7. This certification has a lot of worth as it means that the company prints using the latest technology, proofing techniques, and press controls. The company should also meet the standards needed to produce a close visual match between proof and print.

But what is the G7?
G7 is a method that has been defined by Print Properties and Colorimetrics Working Group of IDEAlliance. Initially the method was conceived by the IDEAlliance GRACoL Working Group but as the popularity of the method grew it was vastly used. Today, with the application of this method, the printers can produce similar visual appearance for all printing types. The printing materials required for this method should be beyond the sheetfed offset printing material. Though initially it was only under the purview of the GRACoL working group but today with the help of the PPC working group experts from all around the world can contribute to this method.

If you want to learn more about the G7 Master Certification or about IDEAlliace then do visit the website.

Digital Printing and Its Effects on the Printing Industry

The printing industry has grown by leaps and bounds from the beginning. With time, the printing technology has evolved considerably giving more options to those who have a printing job to be done. Even though digital printing has been in vogue for quite some time, it is still a new technology that many people are not yet used to. It is definitely much faster and reliable that the traditional methods of printing.

Early Days of Digital Printing

Xerox was the pioneer in digital printing and met the needs of a low end print market. As the bulk of work was in the hands of the printers, it was not considered to be a threat to the printing industry. With the introduction of franchise printers or quick printers a new business model started developing. The digital printers could not attain the amount of popularity in their early days as they had many drawbacks. Some of the systems were so problematic that there was a joke going around about them – if you bought a machine you have also got to hire a technician! Though it was faster than other modes of conventional printing, digital printers couldn’t produce a large quantity of work and the printing industry was not at all bothered by the entry of this hybrid.

Evolution of Digital Printing

The costs for digital prints were rather high in the initial years and only the high end clients could afford them. The modes and types of digital printing were also quite less in number. Then came direct imaging, color copiers and digital press. The make-ready time for digital printers were much less as they didn’t require any expensive plates and could be saved for future use. But the print quality in those days was still doubtful, as a result of which very few people opted for it. With time the quality of digital printers and their print quality also improved significantly, leading to lowering of costs. Later many businesses thrived on digital printing.

Popularity of Digital Printing

In today’s context, digital printing is perhaps the least expensive and the quickest ways to get good prints. Not only is digital printing being used for reproducing images and photos, it is also used widely for catalog printing, color brochure printing, flyer printing and leaflet printing.

Digital printing has become a multi-million dollar industry offering quality printing services to clients worldwide. Its popularity can be measured by the growing number of websites offering such services.

At PrintPapa we offer both Digital and Offset Printing thus enabling to provide short runs (printed digitally) at a low cost and long runs (printed offset) also at a low cost. You can order as low as 50 flyers, or 50 business cards and still get the superb quality which you would get for 1000 flyers or 1000 business cards. We use the top of the line digital and offset presses. So next time when you need to order just few, don’t worry we have it covered.