Drip off
_Great quality print products are becoming more and more popular in the printing industry. A incessantly escalating requirement for surface finishing procedures has become noticeable within the last few years. You need an gorgeous design and top-quality printing and finishing to distinguish yourself away from the competition! Elegant print products create a winning impression, strongly influencing the selections customers make.
Enhancements in the technological options held up by presses, including inline surface finishing in a single pass, are also fueling this progress. Improvement has been specially evident in the line of coatings. There are now a large number of special, user-friendly coatings with new attributes. They create all manner of effects, giving designers ever better choice of expression.
Cold Foil Finishing
Cold foil is an astounding innovative print technology that allows you to utilize metallic foil, in-line, at press speed, in an unlimited spectrum of colors. Cold Foil Finishing can be applied using two conventional offset printing units. The first unit uses its inking unit and an offset printing plate to apply glue either as a spot application or to the full sheet.
The second, actual cold foil unit characteristics take-up and take-off units for putting on the foil. Right with the sheet, the foil is fed into the nip between the blanket and the impression cylinders and utilized by pressure to the areas of the printing stock coated with glue. When the backing is taken away, the metal layer remains on the sheet. The remaining printing units are used to overprint the sheet. CMYK and spot colors can be printed on the surface of the sheet and over the foil.The result is an awesome foil effect.
Drip-off and Hybrid Coatings
Drip-off
Conventional offset inks are used for the process colors. A special-effect print varnish is applied in the final printing unit to the sections that should have a matt appearance. After that, the coating unit is used to utilize a conventional full-area high-gloss coating that drips off the parts previously given a matt coating. This maintains the matt effect of these places and gives the remaining spots a gloss surface.
Hybrid
Hybrid or UV inks are being used for the process colors. A further printing unit is used to apply a UV special-effect print gloss to the regions of the image that are to have a matt visual appeal. Next, the coating unit is used to apply a full-area UV high-gloss coating. Because a UV high-gloss coating is used for hybrid applications, a greater gloss intensity may be achieved compared to a drip-off application produced by using a conventional, water-based high-gloss coating. With hybrid applications, however, the structure of the matt effect is much stronger compared to drip-off applications.
Hybrid and UV Spot Coatings
Hybrid
UV inks are being used for the process colors. A further printing unit applies a hybrid special-effect print varnish to the areas of the picture that will have to have a matt appearance. After that, the coating unit is utilized to apply a full-area UV high-gloss coating. The matt effect is generated exactly where the gloss coating \"sinks\" directly into special-effect print varnish.
UV
UV inks spot-coated with a UV matt varnish in a added printing unit are used for the process colors. Next, the coating unit is used to apply a UV high-gloss coating as a second spot coating. This evidently differentiates the matt and gloss parts. As a UV high-gloss coating is used for the hybrid application, the gloss level is similar to that reached with the UV application. The matt effect in the hybrid application, however, has a surface which is less smooth than with the UV application, otherwise known as a hybrid effect.
Enhancements in the technological options held up by presses, including inline surface finishing in a single pass, are also fueling this progress. Improvement has been specially evident in the line of coatings. There are now a large number of special, user-friendly coatings with new attributes. They create all manner of effects, giving designers ever better choice of expression.
Cold Foil Finishing
Cold foil is an astounding innovative print technology that allows you to utilize metallic foil, in-line, at press speed, in an unlimited spectrum of colors. Cold Foil Finishing can be applied using two conventional offset printing units. The first unit uses its inking unit and an offset printing plate to apply glue either as a spot application or to the full sheet.
The second, actual cold foil unit characteristics take-up and take-off units for putting on the foil. Right with the sheet, the foil is fed into the nip between the blanket and the impression cylinders and utilized by pressure to the areas of the printing stock coated with glue. When the backing is taken away, the metal layer remains on the sheet. The remaining printing units are used to overprint the sheet. CMYK and spot colors can be printed on the surface of the sheet and over the foil.The result is an awesome foil effect.
Drip-off and Hybrid Coatings
Drip-off
Conventional offset inks are used for the process colors. A special-effect print varnish is applied in the final printing unit to the sections that should have a matt appearance. After that, the coating unit is used to utilize a conventional full-area high-gloss coating that drips off the parts previously given a matt coating. This maintains the matt effect of these places and gives the remaining spots a gloss surface.
Hybrid
Hybrid or UV inks are being used for the process colors. A further printing unit is used to apply a UV special-effect print gloss to the regions of the image that are to have a matt visual appeal. Next, the coating unit is used to apply a full-area UV high-gloss coating. Because a UV high-gloss coating is used for hybrid applications, a greater gloss intensity may be achieved compared to a drip-off application produced by using a conventional, water-based high-gloss coating. With hybrid applications, however, the structure of the matt effect is much stronger compared to drip-off applications.
Hybrid and UV Spot Coatings
Hybrid
UV inks are being used for the process colors. A further printing unit applies a hybrid special-effect print varnish to the areas of the picture that will have to have a matt appearance. After that, the coating unit is utilized to apply a full-area UV high-gloss coating. The matt effect is generated exactly where the gloss coating \"sinks\" directly into special-effect print varnish.
UV
UV inks spot-coated with a UV matt varnish in a added printing unit are used for the process colors. Next, the coating unit is used to apply a UV high-gloss coating as a second spot coating. This evidently differentiates the matt and gloss parts. As a UV high-gloss coating is used for the hybrid application, the gloss level is similar to that reached with the UV application. The matt effect in the hybrid application, however, has a surface which is less smooth than with the UV application, otherwise known as a hybrid effect.