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SUMMER HOLIDAYS We inform our customers that the company will be closed for summer holidays from 6 to 21 August. We will handle the requests received via email from Monday 22nd. Kind Regards, Graffietti Stampati.

THE FORMAT The format, intended as the size of the product once finished, printed and packaged, is the most undefined of all the technical characteristics. In addition to a series of basic principles, his choice also includes a series of variables such as practicality, aesthetics. Convenience, use, destination, recipient, cost,Read More

WHAT THE DIGITAL PRINTING IS The new technologies have brought significant innovations also in the field of printing, eliminating a whole series of processes such as, for example, the production of films, their assembly, the relative registration, the development of the plates, the make-ready and more again, significantly shortening productionRead More

THE MAKE-READY The initial stage of any printing process (excluding the digital process) is called ‘Make-Ready’. This is a very delicate moment, as it represents the verification of the calibration of the entire printing process through the analysis of the first sheets that are printed, in order to make theRead More

PDF FILES FOR OFFSET PRINTING PROCESS Preparing files for printing is not a job to be underestimated and, achieving a good result, means not neglecting any detail. The first thing to do, when you need to prepare a file for printing, is to make it universal, to release it inRead More

HOW TO MAKE BLEEDS FOR AN IMAGE OR A BACKGROUND GRAPHIC ITEM When you place images to the page boundaries is necessary to make the “bleed” (ie an overlap, beyond the page size, of the element positioned at the cut) of at least 4 mm for each side. This precautionRead More

CARDBOARD BOOK COVER The cardboard book cover is the direct descendant of the binding techniques of the books used by the monks of the early Middle Ages. Even in our time it has maintained the most renowned product qualities of bookbinding, and this thanks to the successful combination of robustnessRead More

PERFECT BINDING METHOD Perfect binding is the most economical method of paperback. In this case the signatures are cut on the fold side and glued directly to the spine (without stitching with thread) on the spine of the book. With this method the collected signatures undergo the removal of theRead More

SECTION SEWN BINDING METHOD Section sewn is a binding method that combines single signatures sewn together (with a real thread) and then glued on the cover. This high-strength binding is particularly suitable for volumes with many pages, such as catalogs, school texts, novels, reading volumes, and so on, for printsRead More