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4 - Color Process

Also called full-color printing, 4-color printing uses cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks (CMYK) to produce a crisp, accurate printed image. This is the standard printing process you find in publications and marketing materials. At Company Folders, our highly skilled people use top-of-the-line Heidelberg printing presses for the highest quality results.

Spot Varnish

Varnish comes in gloss, satin, and dull finishes. One interesting use of spot varnish is to put dull varnish on a 4-color image, giving it contrast against a gloss background. Or do the reverse: here we used gloss varnish to make the 4-color butterfly pop off the dull/matte paper. You can also add varnish to create a subtle rendering of images or larger text.

PMS Colors ( Spot Color)

The Pantone Matching System® (PMS) is the most widely known and trusted brand of spot color available. Pantone colors encompass a wide color gamut, allowing you to print hues that can't be perfectly reproduced using 4-color process.

Embossing

Embossing uses a specially-made die under high pressure to form a raised three-dimensional impression that allows you to literally feel the design. It is a graceful effect that brings a touch of class to your piece. Embossing can be used on its own or in combination with 4-color printing or foil stamping

Metallic Ink

Special inks with fine reflective metallic particles create a shine and luster you won't see in standard inks. Silver and gold metallics are most common, but metallic inks also come in bright blues, hot red and burnished coppers. Metallic inks are a brilliant way to add pizzazz to your design or highlight a logo or headline.

Foil Stamp

A heated die fuses the foil onto the paper, bonding the design to the surface. Foil stamping adds shimmer and texture to highlight specific text or images. Gold, silver and other metallic colors can be used, as well as clear and holographic foils.

Embossing	Foil Stamping	Foil Embossing


Die Cutting	Digital Printing	Special Inks

Embossing

Embossing is generally an ink free process in which a design or text is pushed into the back of the paper using pressure. This is typically done using a metallic die and a counter die. The counter die forces the paper into the shape of the die from the back side of the paper. The resulting appearance on the front of the paper is a raised representation of the intended design. This design can either be single level (a one dimensional raised design) or multiple level (a three dimensional design done with a brass die). This process can also be done in register with ink or foil in some instances.

Foil Stamping

Foil stamping, also known as hot stamping, is a process involving heat and pressure along with metallic foil material to stamp a design or text onto the front of the paper. The look of the finished product is similar to an ink, but is generally very shiny in appearance (although some pigment or matte foils are available). This process is also done using a metallic die and is one dimensional (flat).

Foil Embossing

Foil Embossing (also referred to as Hot Leaf Embossing) is a combination of both the Embossing and Foil Stamping processes. This can be done in two steps (as illustrated in the individual definitions of "Embossing" and "Foil Hotstamping"), or using a foil emboss, or "Hot Leaf" emboss die. A Foil Emboss Die can also be single or multiple dimensional. This process required both heat and pressure to push the design through the back of the paper into the foil and die at the same time. The resulting effect is a raised metallic image on the front of the paper.

Die Cutting

Die Cutting is a finishing process in which a knife-die is used to cut into the finished paper using pressure. This process is generally used for business card slits, rolodex cards, windows, or custom cut-outs (such as a business card cut into the shape of a house).

Digital Printing

Digital printing is any type of printing process that utilizes electronic files to produce a printed piece from dots of ink or toner. The printed piece is created directly from a computer file without the need for film or conventional printing plates. All full color products are produced using a digital full color process. Each order is grouped with other orders to allow us to offer the best price. During this process, color variations may occur. Because of this, we cannot guarantee that the colors on each order will match the original artwork or a previous sample. Our goal is to provide our customers with pleasing color which is a close representation of the original photograph or sample. While we are often able to closely reproduce a PMS ink (spot) color, PMS spot colors and process colors are produced using different methods.

Special Inks

Orange Creative Solutions is able to produce many products in a variety of special inks that customers request within a spot color printing process. Whether in registration or not, our custom inks department is able to match nearly every ink combination available beyond our standard inks.