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Looking for unique business cards? You have to FEEL the soft touch UV coating that we are applying to our new business cards. People can’t keep their hands off these cards! Let’s talk about how these are produced and how to prepare files for soft touch UV coating. You will need to prepare two files for each side of the business card: one for the CMYK image and another file for the spot UV coating. The CMYK file will be the content of the image, while the spot UV...
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You’re just starting to realize the power of lenticular printing, but did you know all the options you have for printing creative lenticular prints? Here are five lenticular printing effects: Lenticular effects: Flip The simplest of all animation effects, it involves an image change, or flip, from one image to the next. A lenticular flip allows up to three separate images to be combined and viewed independently when viewed at...
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Looking for a way to break through the clutter? Create an instant conversation? Nothing engages readers more than lenticular printing. Often thought as an expensive marketing piece, lenticular printing is now very affordable. Marketing pieces can now contain two or three different images which will flip when the card is rotated top-to-bottom. This technique is perfect for demonstrating before-and-after examples. Examples of lenticular printing effects are: flip, 3D, morph,...
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Where will printing take us next? The future of print is brighter than some may think. 3D Printing is a new and exciting development in the world of inkjet technology. It works on the premise of printing 3D models layer by layer; akin to layer cake. In the case of creating human organs, the sequence of layers is derived from MRI scans ensuring the exact dimensions of the replacement organ. The human cells are harvested form the recipient and stored in an...
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HiDefColor.com is proud to be part of G7 Master Printer network! The G7 Master Printer Certification is a qualification program that identifies printing companies that have been trained to print to G7 Neutral Print Density Curves ensuring gray balance across the tonal range. The advantage to facilitating a G7 workflow guarantees print buyer expectations of the closest color match from proof to press and across other methods of printing from offset to digital to large format...
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I was asked the other day about producing a calendar for 2012. The unique challenge with this project was that it wasn’t a typical template calendar and that its design involves fashion photography that crosses over the spine onto the page beneath. Large images that cross over the spine/gutter in the binding process are known as a ‘gutter jump’ or ‘crossover’. This design is used frequently in the magazine and book publishing business, but it...
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Staccato/FM screens ability to produce a larger CMYK color gamut is one of the best secrets to producing quality color on press. Conventional halftones, often referred to as AM screens (amplitude modulated), distribute ink over a grid of dots that increase in size for darker tones. Throughout the tone scale, the frequency of dots remains the same, but the size or amplitude increases. The ink and water requirements vary greatly throughout the tonal range, causing a basic...
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Is this the trend of where printing is going or gone? BTW, the iPad comes with the car. What do you think? Please leave your comments below… ...
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