Typical offset print products are to be identified and provided with quality requirements that are customary in practice.
In this project, the foundations for the colour modeling of Polyjet 3D printers are to be developed. The aim is to determine the factors influencing solid tone colouring and tone value increases in highspeed inkjet printing on the paper side. Basis for standardization of digital production printing using toner based and large format inkjet printers. Get in touch. Active participation in our research projects is easier than you might think — just get in touch!
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The ProcessStandard Digital PSD has established itself internationally — it includes recommendations, instructions, target values and tolerances for digital print production. Timely and careful seaming, cutting and handling due to the unique design. Craft Beer Twelve 12 FL. The entry is a box used to hold 3gal of peanut oil.
The customer, Loco cookers came to us with need to upgrade their packaging. They were a new vendor to Lowe's and wanted to see if it was possible to create a package that would be eye-catching and highlight the prominent floor space they were getting in store.
Our ability to direct print in high detail allowed them to make huge strides graphically with their presentation and also be as efficient as possible with the price and output.
Printing food flexographically is very challenging to do a make it look good. We have become very good at this process and continue to perfect it daily using the technology and equipment we have. The structure and shape of this box made it a little more difficult to work with as well. This is all done in pre-press and was done in order to keep it 4 color on our press.
Typical issues that were dealt with were warped board issues. This problem is especially difficult when direct printing. We did a 6 out layout and the print and register were handled automatically using the technology we have with our Gopfert press. This box required a folding and gluing.
Judges comments for Best of Category - The degree of difficulty was head and shoulders above the other entries. When confirming the manuscript to the customer, we should clarify the customer's needs and clearly mark the plate making process. Printing controls the color darkness and ink viscosity during the production process. Judges comments for Best of Category - This piece has shelf pop with the foil like print.
The registration and spot gloss coating are perfect. This is technical innovative packaging with the sealer. Judges comments for Printed Product of the Year - A lot of shelf pop.
The faux stamp effect if great! Judges comments for Best of Category - Wow, the deboss is excellent. It is worth mentioning the fine line emboss and stamp. This piece is really holding the details, it is flawlessly put together. This is a 4 color discharge print, of an original drawing from artist Craig Gleason. This job required us to layer discharge inks on top of one another to blend and create different colors. The difficulty was in testing the opacity of the discharge inks to make sure they would layer and provide the correct colors once printed, and fully discharged.
This was separated in house, by Valerie Solomon, to allow the discharge inks to layer correctly. We had to test different layering of the colors, to ensure we printed discharge colors in the correct order. Screens were made with a Kiwo XTS wax system. The Paragon project tshirt was printed for an organization that works with musicians, artists, and poets. We were recommended to this particular client, as they did not want a DTG print, and were having difficulty printing this design.
They were told this particular design could not be printed. Most shops would have run this as a DTG, but with it's order size, and complexity, we wanted to give it a shot screen printed. Aside from it being a complex print, Night Owls only prints with waterbased ink. So that extra layer made it even more challenging.
This project combined a few interesting challenges. We wanted to reduce screen count and simplify on-press production while retaining an enviable amount of detail and color accuracy. To reduce color count, we manually separated red, yellow, cyan, blue, and magenta… creating greens by applying a separated green channel to yellow and cyan. A 55LPI amplitude-modified dot allowed for a reasonable amount of detail within the illustration, while maintaining exceptional on-press control.
With some areas in the the illustration narrowing to under 0. Exposed with Olec Metal Halide Unit. It's a 10 color front, 5 color back, and 2 color sleeves. All art was seperated in house, and printed on Roq Automatic presses.
All screens were Saati Hidro Mesh. This multi-colored flocked heat transfer visually captures the honor and solemn prestige of an organization that assists and supports the military men and women who have so bravely served and sacrificed for our country.
The flocked grey-scale photo-effect creates the fine details desired by the customer. In this case, maintaining the fine details and established photo-effect in the final product. Each color used in a flocked design requires its own screen to be produced and particular attention is paid to getting photo effects to translate appropriately to colored sections.
Design screens have applied bond and those with prominent colors, or particularly contrasting hues, often are run thru our press multiple times to maintain clear lines and sufficient color depth. Final product is backed with adhesive and cut in cell sheets for final application by the customer.
Modified Heidelberg Cylinder press with custom cutting boards to maximize yield and cost effectiveness. Judges comments for Best of Category - It was hard to decide the winner here, but this piece held the detail well. Color surface paper with high - definition digital printing, color saturation gorgeous.
Imported ironing paper from Japan makes the light softer. Personalized illustrations beautify your life, add love and company to your life. Digital printing on special paper, PET screen printing on cylinder lamp cover, and skillfully combine printing technology with IT electronic Bluetooth, charging and adjustable light source by using hot and convex surface paper or colored surface paper according to cylinder box process.
Music box and other fine production of paper objects night language series lamps. Brick carving painting is based on popular stories of Chinese history from Pangu to today. There are more than people in each historical stage, including hundreds of scenes, buildings, mountains and rivers. From the humanistic point of view, the work collects the classic stories of science and technology, education, politics, military, medicine, literature, art, religion, nationality, marketplace, folk custom, foreign exchange and so on.
The form is long scroll, the composition is freehand brushwork of the Yangtze River, symbolizing the long river of history, the carving technique adopts the combination of deep and shallow relief, and the binding is album.
The blue brick is carved by hand and the rubbing is printed by hand. Judges comments for Best of Category - The detail in this piece is amazing, truly fine art. The combination of the hand work, production and paper make for a flawlessly executed piece. Judges comments for Printed Product of the Year - Delicacy of screen printing on rice paper makes this art an absolute treasure!
When wind comes, it forms magical colorful ribbons. With flamingos flying over it, the lake becomes magnificent scene. By using Stechcol colour enamels patent technology, using Ferro ceramic pigments. Very skillful spots color seperation, using best ceramic pigments to create this artwork, 3 times firing to make it. More than 20 years skillful technical person to print this artwork, make sure each step is precise and perfect. Select the best quality porcelain tile to decorate, very skillful technical person to decorate it.
Judges comments for Best of Category - This is a crazy good piece. It could have won in the artwork category. Judges comments for Best of Category - Nice soft touch cover, matte interior. Great print quality. It pops! Excellent flesh tones, vibrant color. The color balance is good. Judges comments for Best of Category - I was pleasantly surprised when I opened this piece.
The vibrancy and pop in colors. The nice square binding. The good cross page registration. What a nice piece. Judges comments for Best of Category - Head and shoulders above the rest of the category. There were images on every pages as compared to books of just black and white text. The cross overs were good, overall a clean piece. The entire job was proofed and such was the quality of the prepress no changes were necessary.
Judges comments for Best of Category - This was a large category and the judges narrowed it down to the top nine choices saying it was crime to have to chose only one. I don't usually go for glossy prints but this piece blew me away.
The blacks are just outstanding. Judges comments for Printed Product of the Year - In a tough category, this was a unanimous decision. We couldn't get over the rich blacks. Judges comments for Best of Show - Stood out from the beginning with hundreds of books. Good artistic eye put this together. They did what they set out to do. Phenomenal job! A lot of craftsmanship and work went into this. Judges comments for Best of Category - I hate to love this piece.
Impressed with the complicated neutral color matching and the product color consistency from page to page. This is a really difficult job to do and they were spot on. Judges comments for Best of Category - The precision of the printing is like the precision of the time pieces displayed in this entry.
The pamphlet set is made up of three hardback books and posters and a display box with several car brand logos. Judges comments for Best of Category - After getting past the impressive weight of the kit, the whole aspect is beautiful and elegant. It is rich but not overstated. The recreation of the car badges is over the top. The three volume book is exquisitely printed. Like the brand is wreaks of distinction. The National Palace Museum calendar uses a special lightweight design to convey profound annual blessings.
The production process is diverse, including silver cover UV printing, inner pages perforating, box cover with imitation wood texture and many others. The success of this project comes from two major factors: The first is the prints can convey the essence of the ancient paintings. The second is the precise craftsmanship of each operation gives this product a high-quality feel. Accurate color management. The color performance of this product is highly loyal to the original.
Calendar cover: Dull coating. Inside pages: perforating. Box cover: Anti-scratch coating, stamping and scoring. Box: F flute corrugating, die cutting, gluing and forming. Binding: Wire binding with hanger. Others: Bags making, components assembling. Coating, perforating, calendar binding, corrugating, die cutting and gluing machines. Inside pages: Hankuk X-Pri gsm art paper. Box: gsm art card. Box cover: gsm fine art card. Sleeve: gsm fine art paper. Bag: gsm C1S art card. Judges comments for Best of Category - This is a technically well done piece.
It is functional yet artistic. The white ink is nicely used. The package consists of envelope, 4pp letterhead and business card with envelope. This stationary package has been designed to be personalised.
The letterhead is four pages. When there is a single page letter as sample the letter is on page 1 and the business card envelope is attached to page 3 with the business card inside. In the event of a two page letter the second page is on the inside back cover with the business card underneath. If the second page is full length the business card is attached to page 4.
For a multipage a loose page or pages are inserted behind page one and a long letter can be saddle stitched. What makes this package unique is the creative flair. Judges comments for Best of Category - The Embossing is fantastic. The way it is done to not show on the back side of the sheet is interesting. The double thick stock has flawless lamination. The hairline embossing and fine detail are very well done.
The Leo Paper Group Annual Announcement invitation card uses a complex layers of pop-up design to create a scenary of sunflower garden, sublimated by a bronze hot stamping on flowers make it even more attractive.
The envelope uses a unique sunflower die-cut design to create a unique and 3-dimensional effect. Judges comments for Best of Category - This piece could have won in multiple categories. It had flawless hot stamp and emboss. The pop up 3D print is beautiful. Combining multiple folders in book form in which the cards can be placed by time. Judges comments for Best of Category - This is a well constructed and put together piece. The stamping is clean.
Printing on black vellum can always be a challenge. Hot foil over vellum with 3 color process overprinting to achieve the assortment of colors desired by the client. Prints UV offset. Black vellum, hot foil, Magenta, Yellow, and Black overprinting, flexo varnish, sculpted flatbed embossing, flat die cutting. Judges comments for Best of Category - This was tough to choose just one winner, as there were lots of fantastic pieces.
In an extremely difficult category this piece stood out for the fine detail, embossing and registration. Appreciated the cleanliness of the execution. The patented structure of the linked pull gift box is used. The bottom ribbon is used to open the gift box while the upper cover automatically slides in.
The upper cut edge and the inner box form a vase shape, showing the lining and the inner box with flowers and makeup patterns. The cut of the outer box adopts the hemming process, and the spot color oil edge ink is applied to echo the gold edge of the box surface; it is covered with an anti-scratch film to prevent scratches. The outer box is printed on silver cardboard, and the pattern is outlined by the embossing process, which fits the attributes of the product's red glaze porcelain.
There is a small lipstick box inside, which adopts a double box flip structure to enhance the fun to use. UV printing, printing metallic ink on bright silver card, simulating the metallic luster of red glaze porcelain. The gift box face paper is covered with anti-scratch film, embossing and die-cutting are produced online, the inner box is produced by an automatic box folding machine, and the envelope is pasted using environmentally friendly glue and piping.
Judges comments for Best of Category - Rigid box effect with die cuts, embossing with two separate boxes inside that align. It has very interesting engineering. This is a very complicated piece. Judges comments for Best of Category - The decision came down to three hard to choose from entries. This piece is the perfect marriage of print, hot stamp, raised polymer and enhancement. Pulp Madness is a collection of prints that showcases the wide range of application possibilities using the Xerox iGen 5 Press production capabilities including 5th station embellishments, specialty substrates, and an extensive media range.
It includes a bound book, a extended sheet book cover jacket and a protective folding carton carrying case. Thick stock up to 24 point and extended XLS sheet size up to 35" are also used. All capabilities are run at rated production speed and require minimal, mess-free maintenance for 5th color changeovers - with no productivity trade-offs. The diversity provides maximum application and production flexibility for complex jobs. Poor image selection and mistakes at pre-press can be very expensive in case of any minor mistake from creation of a print layout to final printing and files press ready covering all the common issues that cause delays, cost time and produce unsatisfactory results.
Actual ppi vs effective ppi, Scanning artwork, determining the right resolution, screen angles, fixing moire patterns, working with bleeds, slug, setting crop marks, spreads and imposing pages. Spot colour artwork, tints, mixed inks, trapping, duotones, spot varnish, compression techniques, Clipping paths and transparency. Image editing, cropping an image, changing image size, tonal correction, image retouching, colour correction, image sharpening, when to convert to CMYK and using a non-destructive workflow.
Over view of the different types of Proof available, Digital proofs, Wet proofs, Plotter proofs, Soft proofs, their pros and cons.
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