4 Graphic Arts

Graphic Arts
- is to the art of printmaking and drawing. In contemporary usage it refers to the applied trade-skills of a pressman, pre-press technician, or typesetter. The term can include the trades of lithography, serigraphy and bindery, among others. Graphic arts as a trade can be traced back to the first instances of the stamped image or word.
- is the production of a design on a medium like Rubber, Plexiglas, or other materials in order to transfer the images and/or make an impression/print to the materials of choice such as paper, cloth, wood, metals, and plastics.

Rubber Stamping
- is a craft in which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied to an image or pattern that has been carved, molded, laser engraved or vulcanized, onto a sheet of rubber. The rubber is often mounted onto a more stable object such as a wood, brick or an acrylic block.

Printing
- Print wear is a leading magazine for professional garment printers. The magazine contains articles regarding, Screen printing and embroidery equipment and technique, Apparel styles and trends, Heat-applied graphics, Special effects printing and embroidery, Business management and sales/marketing skills, Digital transfers and sublimation, Promotional products, Embroidery digitizing, New products and the latest industry literature.

Laminating
- is a material that can be constructed by uniting two or more layers of material together. The process of creating a laminate is lamination, which in common parlance refers to the placing of something between layers of plastic and gluing them with heat and/or pressure, usually with an adhesive.

Book Binding
- is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It usually involves attaching covers to the resulting text-block.