Professional Tips...

Why Should I Add Varnish?

Although it is a extra expense, finishing with a flood varnish coating over your print surface adds durability, enhances visual appeal, prevents colours from fading, and is less affected by scuffing, fingerprints and scratching.

Another reason to add Varnish is to create graphic effects using the contrast between glossy and matte finish varnishing inks. This method costs more than flood varnish coating, since the custom artwork must be output to printing plates.

Finally, Varnishing inks can be tinted with PMS colour inks, including Metallics, to produce a whole range of coating effects.

 

Can You Print White?

Most commonly, printing is done on white backgrounds, such as paper and card stocks. The white areas of the finished printed graphics and photos, are simply the paper without ink applied to them.

But what if your paper is not white? Opaque White Ink can be used on coloured paper and card stocks several ways.

Before printing a photo or graphic, an area can be underprinted with Opaque White Ink, then over printed with either full colour or spot colour graphics.

As well, Opaque White Ink can be colour-tinted for printing spot colour text and graphics. For example, a one or two colour design can be printed with tinted white inks, on a dark background, producing a distinctive look.

 

 

 

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