Speech Transcript:

Today we’re gonna talk about die cutting. When you do pocket folders, POP, that kind of stuff, as a kid I used to always think that the pocket folder just came out at the end of the machine and it was pretty much done. What we normally do is we are gonna always have to print the square or rectangular sheet whether be offset or digital and then we’re gonna come back to a different actual machine and die cut.

This is a Die Cutting Press. This is called Heidelberg Cylinder Press. This is actually a steel rule die. It’s called steel rule because it’s actually steel that’s making the cut.

Everywhere here where you see a spongy material it’s actually called a cutting rule; for instance right there you do not see the sponge that’s gonna be a scoring rule.

So what we do is, as we basically put it in the platen of the machine, build the chase around it. The paper is then fed down into the silver, the silver rolls the sheets around and the platen basically moves in and out. This two comes together inside the press and put just an squeezed from where you are actually going to cut out from the sheet or it’s gonna have a nick so that it doesn’t fall out of the press. So, after the end of the process you basically have a sheet that is printed and die-cut. Then you have to actually scrapped it out. Good?. That’s actually the piece after scrapped out. The left of the sheet that we are gonna then turn around and recycle.

I gave you a little bit of update on die-cutting. Now you know that everything doesn’t come out at the end of the press already die-cut and ready to go. There are several different processes as in the printing process.

I hope you enjoy the video. You’ll see us at www.odeecompany.com

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See Also:

- Die Cut printing or Very Weird Shapes in Printing
- Manual Printing Video
- Digital Black & White Printing
- Digital Color Printing Video