Offset Printing!

Well a little recap since we last talked. I said this blog was going be about offset printing in the last couple of entries haven’t really followed that. Cooking and woodworking are some of my favorites things to do, and I want to share those also. But today’s topic is going to be offset printing that’s what we do here at McComb Printing. To be exact we’re a sheetfed printer.

A little history of offset printing.

Ira Washington Rebel an American was probably the first to discover the process in 1903. The discovery was quite by accident while printing with the old stone plates, on a lithograph press he failed to insert a sheet of paper and noticed it printed on the rubber blanket or impression cylinder. To his amazement when he did insert a sheet of paper it printed on both sides of the sheet. The rubber impression cylinder print side was much clearer, this soft rubber was able to give a better print than the hard Litho Stone. With this discovery he created a machine that would replicate his error. This process was also noticed by two brothers Charles and Albert Harris. They later formed a company producing offset printing machines and the name of that company was Harris Automated Press. When I first started in the printing trade Harris presses were very big part of the printing market, but not the old Litho presses the new modern sheetfed presses it printed up to 10,000 pieces per hour. The printing trade has evolved considerably over the past 25 years. No longer do we use the Harris presses but digital is the new way of the future.