These printable recipe cards became hugely popular during the 30s and the 40s. Nutrition science became an “in-thing” and magazines wanting to reach out to housewives, started searching for standardized recipes, going as far as offering recipe subscriptions for home delivery printed on heavy card stock that had the company’s logo printed on them. Then the advent of women’s magazines early in the 20th century is the main factor that brought written recipes into light. This is because of instructions like “enough flour to create a stiff dough” or “bake until done” which weren’t meant to impart anything new. The advent of literacy had these recipes written down although in the beginning, the results were frustratingly terse. Through the centuries, people have handed down recipes orally from one generation to the next. Nevertheless, most of us still use handwritten recipe card templates, especially those with treasured recipes handed down through generations. Today, it’s likely that we pull out these recipes from electronic devices or from sheets of paper from online recipe sites. In older days, the favorite recipes used by our great grandparents appeared on pieces of paper or cards stored in recipe boxes.

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Press runs are typically ran in increments of 1000, 25 at a time which offers the most yield per press run.ĭigital printing also uses a CMYK color method but it does not require plates. We print on a large Heidelberg 40' presses that can accommodate various smaller images making up what is often referred to as 'gang printing'. After the printing process the plates are removed and discarded for recycling. Each press sheet is fed into the press and is touched by each color separately. Once the 4 plates are made they are installed on the press rollers. It requires the creation of aluminum plates for each of the 4 colors (CMYK) for each press run. Offset printing is the gold standard for high quality, high quantity (1,000 or more). What is the difference between offset printing and digital color printing? First let's cover the basics.

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