DIE CUTTING

In order to ensure the durability of the shopping bag and give it a more finished look, designers often choose to use grommets to attach the handles to the bag. We offer a variety of colored grommets to complement your design.

Of the many applications we offer, one of the more popular is Hot Stamping. This process offers an excellent way to create a very upscale look at a minimum cost. We have a stunning palette of hot stamping foil colors to choose from including different golds, silvers, coppers and other assorted colors. This process can be applied to both paper and plastic substrates.

RIVETS

HDPE –

PP -

A color key is the proof that consists of four or more layers of film (yellow, magenta, cyan, black, and some custom colors perhaps) one color per film. The dot pattern on each is consistent with the dot pattern produced during the printing process. It is also viable for printing two color jobs. This process comes in handy for checking fit, registration, color breaks or adding 5 th and 6 th colors over matchprint proofs.

The subtractive primaries: yellow, magenta and cyan, plus black in four-color process printing. These four inks can combine to reproduce full-color artwork and designs.

HALFTONES OR SCREENINGS

This refers to the dot pattern that gives the art dimension- t he gray-colored tones halfway between shadows and highlights in a reproduced image.

It is important to note that when you transfer colors from your screen to paper, some important things happen. First, your image is going from a backlit RGB (Red, Green, Blue) to a flat CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) with layer on layer of color on top of each other creating a more opaque look. So, colors that can be produced on the screen cannot be reproduced on paper or when printed.

Any form of printing in which the ink transfer is not made directly from the plate to the paper. The offset is supplied by the use of a blanket (a large rubber roller). The plate transfers the ink to the blanket which, in turn, transfers the ink to the paper. The most common form is offset lithography (also the most common method of commercial printing overall). Letterpress and gravure are two other printing methods that can be offset. Offset lithography is distinguished from these two by the fact that there is no etched or raised surface on the plate; the separation of printing and non-printing areas is made chemically, rather than physically.

VARNISHES

After the printing is laid down on the sheet of paper, a varnish can then be put down over the printing. The options are an aqueous- or very shiny, ultra violet or UV which is exceptionally shiny or matte which gives the surface a smooth, non-reflective finish.