With over 150 years of experience, we have become experts at manufacturing top of the line lithographed nameplates and labels. In this process, your copy is printed on a plate using the detail-intensive lithograph process. Labels are allowed to air dry. Metal nameplates are baked at high temperatures, then coated with a clear, durable coating that will resist abrasion, sunlight, and chemicals. When ordering multiple lithographed plates, our customers can expect excellent reproduction of fine detail, options to use multiple colors, and reasonable cost for a high quality product.
The process of lithography was invented in 1796 as an inexpensive alternative for publishing theatrical pieces by Alois Senefelder, a German author and inventor. This old method uses wax, oil, or fat on a limestone plate. Somewhat similar to etching, this method had unprotected parts of the limestone plate eaten by gum arabic and acid.
Modern lithography uses a flexible aluminum plate, which then has the prescribed image or text applied to it. The image or text that is applied to such a plate is made out of a polymer. Also called Offset Printing or Offset Lithography, this process involves the affixing of the lithographed printing plates onto rollers or printing press cylinders, which are then used to create multiple finished plates with the same print on them. This is one of the reasons why this particular manufacturing process is considered cost-effective.