Ancyn Screen and Digital Printers was established in the 1980s and have maintained exceptional levels of service and reliability with innovative and quality for a total print solution. We specialize in point of sale and visual merchandising material. corporate exhibition and event signage. This includes large format posters, sleeves, bollards, A-frames, floor graphics, show-cards, dump bins, standees, window decals, flags, banners and free-standing displays.
We offer an in-house design and production service for all of our client’s requirements including design and finishing and have a total in house control of a full-service installation, packaging, and delivery for both local and national distribution with a commitment of guarantee to meeting our customer’s expectations for quality and reliability.
The Ancyn team prides themselves in being the total solution provider in signage, Point of sale merchandising, and print management. We consider ourselves a little bit special because we are also one of the few remaining print companies to have screen printing as an extra service for our customers.
About Us
Our Services
Screen printing is the process of pressing ink through a stencilled mesh screen to create a printed design. It’s a popular technique used in a whole range of different industries, so even if you’ve never heard of the term before today, it’s likely that you’ve worn or used
a screen-printed product at some point without even realising. The process is called silk screen printing or screen printing, but all of these names refer to the same basic method.
Screen printing is an effective technique for creating bold canvases, posters and printing on all types of materials that digital will find it almost impossible to do, the method can also be used to print fabrics and textiles, so it’s great for creating all sorts of projects.
One of the reasons that the screen printing technique is so widely used is because it produces vivid colours, even on darker materials. The ink or paint also lies in layers on the surface of many types of materials, which gives the print a vibrant and colourful result.
The technique is also favoured because it allows the printer to easily reproduce a design multiple times. Because the same stencil can be used to replicate a design again and again, it’s very useful for creating multiple copies of the same product. This makes screen printing a very efficient technique for creating large batches of quantities for you project.
When carried out using professional equipment by an experienced printer, it’s also possible to create intricate multicoloured designs. While the complexity of the process does mean there’s a limit to the number of colours the printer can use, it does allow for more intense colouring than is possible to achieve with digital printing alone.
Screen Printing
The digital printing definition is a way of printing from a digital-based image directly onto a range of media. The printing process produces an image by mapping out minute droplets of ink onto your chosen surface – creating your image.
Digital printing has become an economically viable way of producing small print runs, and technology accommodates the need to print only the amount you need on demand.
Digital printing presses print the image directly onto the media material. The main difference between digital printing and traditional methods is that there isn’t any need for the printing plates , or Screens to be replaced for multiple colours in production.
A clean, sharp image is produced with the minimal amount of material used for the production process to be effective without any waste.
The files are formatted correctly before being sent to the printer ensuring the results are high-quality and accurate. In many of the digital printing processes, the ink doesn’t permeate the substrate but forms a thin layer on the surface that may have additional adherents added by heat or curing. And much energy is conserved by certain processes and equipment being bypassed – making for a reduced carbon footprint and an eco-friendlier procedure.
Digital Printing
Guillotining
Ancyn Guillotining allows the trimming of individual sheets or stacks of paper after printing through the use of a cutting-blade. Guillotining is often used to ensure precise cutting when you have multiple items to cut to the finished size.
Folding
Our process of precisely folding completed print items, such as dump bins and display shop units can enhance transportation and presentation for your design. Its a great time-saving option for your product that would otherwise have to be sent out in larger packages.
Laminating
Laminating adds a thin, transparent plastic coating to printing products. Laminating has both a protective and aesthetic effect. Laminating is also very useful for larger workplace signs and prints that need to be wiped and cleaned for safety.
Finishing Processes
Formecutting and Cutting to Shape
Formecutting to your designed shape is a process where we use our state of the art cutting tables to produce your finished product to any unique shapes, perforations, or creases on any type of material needed for the project.
Shrink Wrapping and Eyelets
A layer of plastic is applied and shrunk tightly over your print products, for protection and/or for presentation when sending out to clients, Ancyn can insert eyelets in posters, corflute signage, plastic and paper sheets for hanging support.
Collating, Dispatch and Warehousing
Your print products can be collated and ordered according to your specification before dispatch. Ancyn are professionals in handling the logistics in storing and dispatching your printed products to local and interstate deliveries.
Contacts
Mark Brooks
Gary Brooks
Accounts
Reception
Prepress
Artwork Specs
When supplying Artwork Files to Ancyn please follow the attached instructions.
We require PDF files created to print-ready specifications. Colour images should be down-sampled to 300DPI. The PDF colour space should be four-colour CMYK unless Spot colours are required. Bleed and trim marks should be included.
Fonts
Please ensure that all fonts are embedded in the PDF document or make sure you convert fonts to outlines to prevent any issues with fonts.
Images
If there are any images within the document, they must be saved as CMYK and no less than 300DPI, preferably in PSD, TIF or EPS to ensure quality.
Colours
Please ensure your files are supplied in CMYK. Please specify if the job is to be printed in CMYK with/or spot colour, etc. All spot colours need to be clearly specified. Pantone (PMS) colours preferred.
Bleed, Trim Marks & Fold Lines
If your document has colour or images placed off the edge of the page, a 5mm bleed is required. Trim marks (use solid lines) are to
be included so the document can be trimmed to the desired size. If you require folding, please indicate by inserting fold lines (use dotted lines). Trim marks and fold lines are to be set outside the print area.
A Keyline trim guide is required which is to be the exact finished size (850x2100mm). This is to be placed around the artwork using
a 0.5 pt stroke in either Black, Grey, or Magenta, depending on the background colour. Please allow 5mm bleed as well as the key line.
Please send finished artwork to our prepress department to dom@ancyn.com.au or if you have any questions relating to these specifications please give us a call before sending finished artwork: 03 9376 5068
Please Note
We require print-ready PDF files. Files provided in any other format will require our designers to make changes and will incur an additional fee.
