Design and layout
We design your individual print product and develop the right implementation together with you.
Print preparation
Prepress
Perfect print results start with professionally prepared data. Our experienced media designers check, optimise and process your print data reliably for production.
Focus areas
Three focus areas in prepress
Data and colour management
We ensure correct colours, suitable colour spaces and optimal image quality at every step of production.
Checking and approval
Careful data checks and precisely dimensioned proofs create certainty before printing.
Prepress
Your print data in the best hands
In prepress, known in German as Druckvorstufe, our media designers manage every process required to prepare your print data cleanly and correctly. With modern software and a trained eye for design and technology, we make sure your data is optimally prepared for printing.
We take the requirements of the respective printing process into account, as well as the properties of material, ink and finishing. If adjustments are necessary, we coordinate them directly with you or with the colleague handling your account.
Scope of services
Our prepress services
From the first file to the mounted printing form, we handle every step of the preparation.
- Typesetting, layout and image creation
- Design and consulting for your individual print product
- Checking the files you supply
- Coordination of any corrections required
- PDF preflight check
- Checking colours, colour spaces and image resolutions
- Conversion and optimisation of print data
- Checking and creating the required bleed
- Creation of die-cutting and varnish forms
- Trapping to avoid white gaps between colours
- Provision of precisely dimensioned proofs
- Imposition of the finished printing forms including print marks
- Quality control of the printing forms produced
- Production of CTP offset plates and flexo printing plates
Process
From the file to the finished printing form
Every order is checked carefully and prepared for the production that follows. This avoids errors, ensures reliable results and creates the basis for consistently high print quality.
Flexo printing
Our prepress for flexo printing (up to 8 colours)
Flexo printing is a relief process that runs up to eight colours in a single pass. Dot gain, register accuracy and the plate circumference decide the result, which is why we account for them during data preparation and not at the press.
Colours and separation
We keep CMYK and Pantone or HKS spot colours cleanly apart and remove unnecessary channels before the printing form is made.
Dot gain and screening
Calibration curves in the RIP compensate for the dot gain caused by the material. We match screen ruling and dot shape to the artwork, the material and the anilox roller.
Trapping and register
Fine overlaps at the colour boundaries prevent white gaps when the register shifts. Minimum dots and fine lines are set so that they neither break away nor fill in.
Plate and finishing
Before imaging we distort the data in the running direction to compensate for plate circumference and thickness. Die-cutting and varnish forms are built to match the printed image.
Digital printing
Further options in digital printing
We also offer a versatile range of services in digital printing. Four-colour digital sheet-fed printing and modern high-end inkjet printing with up to seven colours on the reel complement our traditional printing processes.
This makes small and medium print runs, personalised content and individual applications flexible and economical to produce.
Digital sheet-fed printing
Four-colour digital printing on sheets for small and medium print runs.
High-end inkjet on the reel
Inkjet printing with up to seven colours for reel material and personalised content.
Consulting
Which printing process suits your product?
Not sure yet which process is best suited to your order? Our prepress specialists will advise you personally and find the right solution together with you.
Talk to us. We are happy to advise you.
Contact
Your contacts for prepress
Send us your data or your question. We will look at it and come back to you with an assessment.
Contact form
We will get back to you within one business day.