Recent developments in media technology continue to offer a number of new services and application options for output providers.

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As the market has evolved, identifying "digital art" has become almost as difficult as answering the age-old question, "What is art?"

While many prepress and production functions are already automated, there is a growing interest in making great use of modern management information system (MIS) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to automate business-management functions.

Pads are a formulation of a liquid base material, silicone oil, and a catalyst. Initially inflated animal organs were used as pads. Later gelatins were used in an effort to make pads more durable. It wasn't until the late 1960s that the modern silicone pad was invented in Germany.

Understanding the pad printing process is rather difficult for most people. Everyone has heard of it but nobody knows exactly what it means or how it works. The great advantage of offset pad printing relies on the fact that, next to the printing of flat objects, odd shaped objects can also be printed on.

Today pad printers have a wide variety of cliche types and materials to choose from, each with its own unique set of benefits and limitations.

Successful imaging relies on the right choices, and pad printing is no exception...especially when it comes to ink choices.