Lithography
ICD Global is a commercial lithographic printer. Our offset work is built on an old and exacting principle: oil and water do not mix.
Plate, blanket,
sheet.
The image is never printed directly. It is offset, from plate to blanket to paper, which is where the process takes its name.
The plate
Image areas on the printing plate attract ink, while non-image areas hold water and repel it.
The blanket
The inked image transfers, or “offsets”, from the plate onto a rubber blanket cylinder.
The sheet
The blanket presses the image onto paper, one color at a time, building the finished piece.
Full color, from
four inks.
In four-color process printing each ink is printed from its own plate, and all four must land in register.
Cyan
Lays down the blues and greens of the image.
Magenta
Adds reds and pinks; overlaps cyan for purples and deep blues.
Yellow
Completes the three process colors that build full color.
Black
The “key”: depth, crisp type and fine detail.
Lithography in service of research.
We put commercial lithographic printing to work on recruiting materials, study guides, site binders and clinical trial documentation, with fulfillment and distribution under the same roof.
Bring us your next press run.
From the first proof to the final sheet, we will meet your standard and your schedule.