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June 26, 2008

Question: We're a greeting card publisher and want to print with glitter in the U.S. I'm enclosing samples that were printed overseas. Can you tell us how they were done?

Answer: The samples that you sent to me are printed by two different methods. The glitter is applied offline after printing. A spot varnish is applied and then glitter is dusted on the print and the excess blown off. One sample was done this way with large particle size glitter.

Heat Transfer

The gold sample is not sprayed on but is produced offline on a second pass through a digital heat transfer machine available from Therm-O-Type. It is a FT 10 Foil Fuser. The Foil Fuser's primary market is for business cards and it can create very nice tonal gradation. 

Readers, please e-mail your questions to Ray.  

Posted by Ray Prince on June 26, 2008 | Comments (0)