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What type of printing process is used?

The presses are state-of-the art Heidelberg and Mitsubishi commercial presses.

Offset printing is based on a technology called lithography meaning "writing with stones". The image was engraved on a flat stone stone that was inked and put in contact with a sheet of paper. Ink was kept away from areas of the stone not engraved by water. As water and ink repel each other, the ink adhered only to the engraved area of the stone. Today, the stone is a metalic plate, but the principal is the same. The term "offset" comes from the transfer of the ink from the plate to a rubber blanket, and then from the blanket to the paper.

Digital printing refers to high-speed laser printing. This technology uses a laser to expose the image on to photosensitive material on a drum. Electrically charged toner is attracted to the image on the drum and is transferred to the paper. The toner is fixed with either heat and/or pressure.