This printing process uses the principle of planographic printing. The printing section of the press consists of metal plates wrapped around the cylinders using dense ink. "Offset" is an English term defining "no-contact" printing: indeed the printing plate is not in contact with the paper, but with a sheet of rubber known as "blanket".
A Sheet-fed offset printing is performed using flat sheet presses: they are very versatile and used to produce hight-quality matter such as catalogues and illustrated books.

Production capacity: 1.000 - 100.000 copies.

To find out more information about the sheet-fed offset printing process at Mondadori Printing, download the technical data in pdf format .