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Printing Gold Colour

Jaffrey — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:13:28 +0000

Recently I experienced the agony of trying to get the colour gold printed on a series of products that I designed and this is what I discovered.

On our first try using digital print, the resulting colour was a greenish brown colour. Nowhere close to Gold

On our second try using offset print, the resulting colour was still a greenish brown, a military camo colour.

On the third try, instead of using CMYK, we dropped the K and print using CMY instead using offset printing. The resulting colour is totally different from the first and second try, this time it is a brown.

In conclusion, the colour Gold cannot be reproduced by both digital and offset printing. The only way to get the colour Gold accurately is to print using Pantone Gold Ink, which was confirmed by our client calling Pantone themselves, and the resulting colour is a shiny Gold. So whenever you come across the colour Gold for future projects, save yourself time and stress, print using Pantone colour. It is the only way to get the job done right.

Design Chemical Printing Services

Todd — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:36:10 +0000

Design Chemical supplies expert Printing Services for customers big and small.

Business Cards, Brochures, Catalogs, Posters and Specialty Printing.

Just about anything. From paper to chopsticks, to crocodile leather.

Design, layout and production including Spot UV and Silver foil as well as others.

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More information on standard and specialty printing can be found on our Bangkok Printing page

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Printing with Art Paper or Woodfree Paper

Jaffrey — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:10:16 +0000

When printing is important to know which paper type to use and when.

There are two main types of paper for printing – each one has it’s own specific use.

Printing With Art Paper

Art paper has a hard, smooth surface on one or both sides, which created by a coat of fine clay compound. Art paper is commonly used for printing business cards, brochures, catalogues, posters etc. It comes in a range of different paper weight for different thickness and strength. It is not possible to write on art paper.

Printing With Woodfree Paper

Woodfree paper is a printing and writing paper which contains little or no mechanical woodpulp. It is commonly used for printing letterheads, notebooks, notepads and other similar type items, which are used for writing or standard printing.

Woodfree paper comes in 80 – 100gm thickness.

Based on your printing requirements, this should help guide you to know what type of paper to ask for in your next printing project.

After The Wave Business Cards

Jaffrey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:01:09 +0000

This is the first of a series of print design and production work that we did for After The Wave (ATW), a charity organisation that supports the continuing the education of students affected by the 2004 Tsunami. This is one of my favourite projects and I enjoyed working on each one of them.

For the design of the business cards, I felt that a dual sided business card is more design effective.
On one side, a very light blue background with just their logo and tagline and on the reverse side, their corporate blue background with their logo print on with spot UV.

The spot UV process is an ultraviolet cured process that involves plastic liquid. It gives more protection and a higher degree of gloss than aqueous coating. And with the card’s matt finish, the glossy spot UV effect on the business card gives an even greater contrast.

The artwork is then printed onto 250gm paper and finish the business cards off with rounded corners.
I am very pleased with the finished business cards with both the spot UV and rounded corners effect.

You can see the artwork for the After The Wave business cards on our portfolio page.