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- 1. Modernisation of Graphic Design:
The Possibilities and Challenges
of Digitalisation
- Pages: 5-9
- Stephen T.F. Poon
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Abstract
As inventions go, the contrivance of design as a dynamic, fluid, operational
vehicle of human technology has always been subject to arguments and
debates. The digitalisation of graphic design is a comparatively new
field of research, a progressive process that evolves with technological
developments. Undoubtedly, the evolution of design practices has
transformed the entire design process in ways not deemed possible in
the past. The advantages of digitalisation are particularly tangible in the
range of possibilities generated by computer-based design tools. The main
argument for the increase in “design capital” has been the accessibility
of modern art tools to both design practitioners and the wider society,
through mass digital culture absorption and the emerging technologies
of production and reproduction. In presenting the fundamentals of
digitalisation in design practices, this paper retraces the key cornerstones
in the evolution of graphic design as an aesthetic medium from the 19th
- to 21st -century, while pointing out the expanding, reflexive relationships
between design and our environment. The researcher’s aim is to connect the
socio-historical developmental frames of social progress and the practical
uses of digitalisation in art and design today. The innovations in computermediated
design work today grew from experimental platforms in the 20th
-century, inasmuch as technological diffusion in the 21st -century Information
Age derived from the widespread global embrace of the World Wide Web,
multimedia and graphical computing systems. As a result of this development
of the technological ‘canvas’, the production of design, aesthetic and
cultural objects has shifted from the traditional artist-craftsman-specialist
paradigm to reflect a more encompassing, diverse scope of ideas fostered
by the exposure to different facets of creative capital and inspirations.
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2. Weather resistance of inkjet prints
on plastic substrates
- Pages: 11-14
- Rozália
Szentgyörgyvölgyi,
Ákos Borbély
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Abstract
The development of wide format inkjet printers made the technology
available for large area commercials. Outdoor advertising uses a wide range
of substrate including paperboard, vinyl, canvas, mesh; the material of
the substrate itself has to endure the physical and chemical effects of local
weather. Weather elements (humidity, wind, solar irradiation) degrade printed
products inevitably; plastic products have better resistance against them,
than paper based substrates. Service life of the printed product for outdoor
application is a key parameter from the customer’s point of view. There are
two ways to estimate expected lifetime: on site outdoor testing or laboratory
testing. In both cases weathering parameters can be monitored, however
laboratory testing devices may produce the desired environmental effects
and thus accelerate the aging process.
Our research objective was to evaluate the effects of artificial weathering on
prints produced by inkjet technology on plastic substrates. We used a large
format CMYK inkjet printer (Mutoh Rockhopper II, with Epson DX 4 print
heads) to print our test chart on two similar substrates (PVC coated tarpaulins)
with grammages 400 g/m2 and 440 g/m2.
Specimen were aged in an Atlas Suntest XLS+ material tester device for equal
time intervals. We measured and calculated the gradual changes of the optical
properties (optical density, tone value, colour shifts) of the test prints.
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3. Color differences and perceptive
properties of prints made
with microcapsules
- Pages: 15-21
- Raša Urbas,
Urška Stankovič Elesini
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Abstract
The aim of the research was to establish whether addition on fragranced
microcapsules influences on color values and perceptive properties of prints.
For this purpose, three types of printing inks were used on two sets of the
paper substrate. Color properties were measured by standard methods while
perceptive properties were determined by subjective method. Research has
shown that microcapsules cause small color differences while perceptive
analyses gave very interesting results.
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- 4. Processless offset printing plates
- Pages: 23-27
- Sanja Mahović
Poljaček, Tomislav
Cigula, Thomas
Hoffmann-Walbeck,
Tamara Tomašegović,
Sebastian Riegel
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Abstract
With the implementation of platesetters in the offset printing plate making
process, imaging of the printing plate became more stable and ensured
increase of the printing plate quality. But as the chemical processing of
the printing plates still highly influences the plate making process and the
graphic reproduction workflow, development of printing plates that do not
require chemical processing for offset printing technique has been one of the
top interests in graphic technology in the last few years. The main reason for
that came from the user experience, where majority of the problems with
plate making process could be connected with the chemical processing of
the printing plate. Furthermore, increased environmental standards lead to
reducing of the chemicals used in the industrial processes. Considering these
facts, different types of offset printing plates have been introduced to the
market today. This paper presents some of the processless printing plates.
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