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Duotone:

Reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasting color halftone (traditionally black) over another color halftone. This is most often used to bring out middle tones and highlights of an image. The most common colors used are blue, yellow, browns and reds.

Now due to recent advances in technology, duotones, tritones, and quadtones can be easily created using image manipulation programs.

Thermography:

A highly cost effective way to add a gloss raised finish to all or part of printed products.

Fully compatible with laser printers.

Ideal for Invitations, business cards, letter headings and compliment slips.

We can print to bespoke order on any thickness of material.

Ideal for use in conjunction with foiling, embossing and lithography.

Thermography is a process that applies powder to ink while the ink is wet and is heated and cured to give a high gloss raised image.

Printed sheets are passed though a powder hopper on a conveyer belt allowing the powder to stick to the wet ink.  Excess thermo powder is then vacuumed off and the sheet continues along the belt into an oven there the thermo powder becomes molten.

Whilst in it molten state the thermographed sheet is exposed to ultra violate where it is cured and is instantly dry to the touch ensuring that the finished stationery can be used through a laser print.

Applications for Thermography

Viprint have taken Thermography to new levels offering double sided and multicolour Thermography to bespoke order on any thickness of material.

One off Corporate invitations and business cards to complete corporate image re launches are common place at Viprint.

Large city banks are benefiting from our next day service.

With a firm commitment to developing Thermography to its full potential, Viprint have increased the applications for Thermography vastly.

We firmly believe that we are now world leaders in art of Thermography.

Examples of Thermography:

Foil blocking

Foil blocking has been developed using the letterpress principle. A male block is produced using zinc, magnesium, copper or brass. These are process engraved.

The block is heated on press and a metallic or coloured foil is branded on to the material. Foiled logos are incorporated into many corporate identities, used especially on corporate invitations, business cards, letter headings and compliment slips.

Foiling & Embossing

Foiling and embossing can be used on the same image, firstly foiled and then embossed. Again logos are incorporated into many corporate identities, used especially on corporate invitations, business cards, letter headings and compliment slips.

A highly cost effective way to add metallic colour to all or part of printed products.

Fully compatible with laser printers.

Ideal for Invitations, business cards, letter headings and compliment slips ect.

We can print to order on any thickness of material.

Ideal for use in conjunction with thermography, embossing and lithography.

Embossing

Embossing uses the same principle as die stamping. A female block is produced using zinc, magnesium, copper, brass or steel. These are process engraved to one depth or hand engraved to multiple depths.

In simple terms the material to be embossed is pushed into the die using a male counterforce.

Embossing can be used to raise a printed or foiled image. It also used to “Blind Emboss” images, this raises the image on plain paper.

Embossed logos are incorporated into many corporate identities, used especially on corporate invitations, business cards, letter headings and compliment slips.

-A highly cost effective way to raise images from a plain or printed.

-Fully compatible with laser printers.

-Ideal for Invitations, business cards, letter headings and compliment slips etc.