NOA PRINTERS KISII

located in Kisii town
Family Bank Building Ground Floor
Speciality: offset lithography printing,Intenet services, finishing operations,bookshop,cyber services

Utubora Four Stationary suppliers and printing press

Located in Nyamira Town

Road:            Konate -Nyamira road
Address:        P.o Box 668-40500
                      Nyamira
Telephone: 020 230 5163
Speciality: Lithographic printing, Screen Printing,Internet services,Pharmacy,M-pesa,Bookshop

Printing Technology Course offered at Technical University of Kenya

Technical university of Kenya (Former Kenya polytechnic) is known for training Printers in The East Africa Region for decades. The printing Department falls under the school of Creative Arts and Technologies.

Here are the Courses offered at the department

• Bachelor of Philosophy (Printing)- Only offered to those who have a Higher Diploma in Printing technology.Its A 2 year programme.
• Higher Diploma in Printing Technology-Offered to those who hold a Diploma in printing technology in pre press,press or post press with a working experience.
• Diploma in Printing Technology-This is a full time 3 years diploma course,the student in final year specialises in either of the three options,namely pre press,press or post press
• Diploma in Printing and Packaging-This is a 3 year course and its only part time based.in the final year unlike regular diploma students a learner doesnt choose options to specialise in.
• Certificate in Print Origination-1 year certificate course.
• Certificate in Machine Printing-1 year certificate course,one specialises in running presses and maintanance
• Certificate in Print Finishing-1 year certificate course one focuses only in post press activities
• Book Repair Maintenance

Lithography

A term describing the most common form of lithography (a printing process in which the image area and the non-image area co-exist on the same plane, rather than from raised or etched type, as in letterpress and gravure printing, respectively; see Lithography) in which a printed image is transferred first to a rubber blanket, and the blanket then transfers (or "offsets") the image to the paper or other surface. Other forms of lithography include ["direct lithography (or di-litho) and waterless lithography. The two basic varieties of offset lithography are sheetfed and web offset lithography. The remainder of this article will deal primarily with sheetfed offset printing.  

EVOLUTION OF OFFSET LITHOGRAPHY
 The offset press as we know it today was invented around 1905 by Ira Rubel, a papermill owner in Nutley, New Jersey, who also used the contemporary lithographic

HISTORY OF PRINTING

The history of printing begins in a parallel course with that of moveable type. Although Johann Gutenberg, a goldsmith from Mainz, Germany (c. 1400:c. 1468), is regarded as having invented both moveable type and the printing press, the former dates back to eleventh-century China, and the latter to eighth-century Japan and ninth-century China. Between 1058 and 1061, Pi Sheng used clay, and later tin, to create type. The nature of the Chinese language (the lack of a true alphabet and the presence of more than 40,000 characters) made the invention and practical use of moveable type a near impossibility. Pi Sheng's type was not widely used, and didn't catch on in the East until a couple hundred years later. Metal type was invented in 1403 in Korea, primarily due to the dearth of hardwood necessary to create workable blocks of type, and was quickly endorsed and adopted by the Korean emperor T'ai Tsung as an aid to government and the preservation of civilization. 

WHAT IS PRINTING?

DEFINITION 1: Printing is a process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template.
                         2 :Printing is Process of Transferring an inked image from its carrier unto a substrate under impression.

TYPES OF PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES
1.Letterpress
2. Offset Lithography

3.Gravure
4.flexography
5.screen printing
6.Digital Printing