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Adding Metallic Colours To Wide Format Workflow


Timo Keersmaekers explains how to include special effects into a graphic

Year
2011
Company
Roland DG
Author
Timo Keersmaekers
Specialist Printing Worldwide
Categories
Printing Type
Digital
Industry
Automotive
Ceramics
Decor
Electronics
Flooring
Food & Beverage
Graphic
Labelling
Medical & Healthcare
Packaging
Security
Textile
Subject
Inks

In the past, gold and silver effects could only be produced by complex printing systems such as offset, flexo and screen-printing.

It is necessary to make plates or screen-printing frames for all these techniques - and this proved to be an expensive method, especially for small print runs.

They also require a great deal of professional expertise.

Nowadays, however, printing metallic colours can be both cost-efficient and easy.

The answer lies in wide-format printers.

Adding Metallic Colours To Wide Format Workflow

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