simple printing; quick printing; mimeography
Refers to low-cost, small-scale printing methods such as Risograph or mimeograph, often used for flyers, newsletters, and internal documents. Not used for high-end commercial printing.
We produce the newsletter using simple printing.
Simple printing is cheap and fast.
オフセット印刷 is a high-quality commercial printing method, while 軽印刷 is for simpler, lower-volume jobs.
Compound of 軽 (light, simple) and 印刷 (printing). The term likely arose to distinguish low-cost, small-scale printing from full-scale commercial printing.