With the enhanced popularity of stickers, it is not a surprise that printing these materials have become an increasingly well know industry. While it is possible to make and print simple print materials at the comforts of your own home, the durability and especially the quality is nothing compared to that which you can get online. Only a very few people have printers that is equipped with the needed ink, or have the paper quality needed to make a long lasting and effective print material.

Printing these stickers like all modern technology has vastly enhanced over the years. It is no longer limited to the black and white, rectangular, thin paper materials but instead prints on a wide variety of kinds and weights of paper materials with also an unlimited color options not to mention all the numerous shapes and also sizes of these print materials. To further improve your knowledge about these things, below are the types of the process of printing these print materials that you can always consider on using.

The screen printing the oldest and also still the most usual way of printing is the screen printing process. This is a simple process that usually uses synthetic screens to transfer the image to the paper material. This process is usually used for basic printing and is also limited only for the quantity of these print materials. The ink is usually squeezed through the screen onto the paper material which has a stencil on it. The process must be always repeated for each color that is used; a stencil for one color is cut and then pressed onto the paper material. Then a stencil is cut for the second color and which color is also pressed onto the paper material. The process is also repeated until all the given colors are successfully transferred and the design is complete.

The letterpress printing a usual form of relief printing that usually uses a press and a movable type is called as the letterpress printing process. A reversed, raised surface is usually inked and pressed onto the paper material to attain the right sided image. This process is usually used on small, basic task of only one color.

The flexography this type is a much quicker printing process. This flexography type usually allows for printing larger amount of print materials at the same time. This process is typically used in commercial printing. In this type, a master print is made and then used to print the image on a paper material as the plate is being rolled over the paper material. This is a very well know process in the printing world.

The offset printing in this process, the image is commonly transferred from a plate or a rubber cylinder to the paper material. Offset printing usually gives the printer several color options and also prints great colors.

Last but not the least, the digital printing the most advanced process of sticker printing is the digital printing. You will be able to make any changes up to the last minute with the help of this process. In digital printing, the ink usually sits on the paper material as opposed to being absorbed into it. Digital printing is not suitable for very large amount of printing, but mostly used for personal printing for most home or small scale business establishments like yours.