b'Oset Offset printing is a popular style of printing for large quantities of paper products like newspapers, brochures 4 or posters.The offset printing process consists of a Page 135 series of rollers that transfer the image from a printing age 371plate to the paper. Before printing can begin, the print files must be separated into CMYK.CMYK stands for cyan (blue), magenta, yellow and key (black), essentially the (3) primary colors plus black.Each color will be printed separately and layered to create the full range of colors.Offset is a complicated process that essentially breaks down into 5 steps:1) Make a Plate - A printing plate is made using a negative that is exposed onto a plate with a light sensitive coating; makinga readable positive of image.The image area is treated with a water resistant coating and the non-image area gets a coating to attract water and repel the oil based inks.2)Wet the Plate - A smaller series of rollers transfer water,wetting the entire plate.The treated area of the image will repel the water while the non-image area will attract it.3 ) Inking - The next roller applies the oil based ink to the plate.The wet portions of the plate repel theoily ink.The ink sticks to the water resistant image.4) Offset - The final roller is known as the rubber blanket.This roller is pressed against the printing plate, thus carrying away a reverse ink image. 5) Printing -The paper travels between the rubber blanket and a impression cylinder.The ink blanketed rubber cylinder presses against the paper, depositing the positive image.These steps are repeated 4 times, once each, in the CMKY inks.371'