PRINT VISIT TO TEAM!

today we went and had a look around TEAM which is a print company. It was really interesting to have a look around a fully working print workshop, instead of just looking at videos on youtube. I think its always important to get a first view of something to truly understand what it does. The guy that showed us around was great and really thorough which was great because some of it was confusing. I went a bit snap happy... but its helped me because when i look back at things i know exactly what was going on and what machine was what and what it was doing. Below are all the images that i took from the visit, i have titles the ones with the processes.

TEAM OVER-VIEW

SOME WORK THEY PRODUCE

SOME WORK THEY PRODUCE

CLIENTS THEY HAVE

i really loved this book they created, i think

it was really clever printing along the side and being

able to spell out what the book was essentially about.

TEAM GROUND OVER-VIEW

Mountains of paper.....

Lythography Printer

CMYK break down

CMYK breakdown

Placing the metal stamped prints with work on to print from

Machine feeding work out

Start of the process, paper loaded

all the colours

Where the metal boards of printed on

Large scale digital print

Printer inks along the bottom pumped in

Large scale digital printers

inside of digital printer

What the design is etched onto

Smaller lytho printer

paper......

Used metal designs

Laminating machine

Hand making section

PUPPY!!!!

Embossing machine

PUPPY!!

Dye cutting machine

Previously used dye cutting boards

Hand made packaging

BLACK PACKAGING.

As i have decided to do my packaging in black i have decided to look into a variety of black packaging that incorporates the styles i am interested in. For example spot varnishing, embedding etc.

Billboards - Hyde Park

Here are images of the billboards that are on Hyde Park corner. these are the main billboards around Hyde park and headingley area, they are great because you see them as you are going into and out of town which is great because it means you will see them when you go and when you come back and they always draw your attention. 

My main focus is to look at using images 2 and 3, they are the larger billboards and would fit well within my specification for printing the billboards. my billboards designs are long and narrow and they would fit well within these boards. Also because they span over the same area it means you can have two similar boards there telling different facts. 

Billboards 1 and 4 are way too small and dont have nearly enough room to fit my designs on i think they would look too squashed. i like the 4 split boards but it doesn't work with my design so i wouldn't use them. 

I am happy with my choice in boards it gives me a variety and actually helps put my boards into context.

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