2021 Winners Gallery

McDowell Label

Plano, Texas

Oxy Whey Delicious Chocolate

Dupont

Gallus

Raflatac

Overnight Labels Inc.

Deer Park, New York

Flexo printed 9 colors + UV Screen Printed Shrink Sleeve

1)Because this job had to run on 2 presses there were significant registration challenges 2)Achieving a the correct copper color was a challenge because the color target was a prototype of a different substrate 3)Printing a smooth gradation of the orange and pink 4)To enhance the look and feel a silk screen UV was applied, which added to the complexity of the printing process

N/A

Mac

N/A

10 color Nilpeter and 8 Color Nilpeter with Silkscreen Unit (SPG Prints)

Timely and careful seaming, cutting and handling due to the unique design.

Karlville Seamer and Cutter

50 micron PETG Film from Klockner

International Paper Indianapolis Preprint

Indianapolis, Indiana

Craft Beer Twelve 12 FL. OZ. mixed pack bottle box

Registration across a 84" web with a 72-3/8 repeat.

Tight color tolerances and tight registration tolerances.

Esko Workflow, GMG proofing system

117ls .016" traps Dupont DPL plates Water based inks

Fischer & Krecke 98" 8 Color + 2 Varnish Stations

Kemi

Peachtree Packaging and Display

Lawrenceville, Georgia

The entry is a box used to hold 3gal of peanut oil. The customer, Loco cookers came to us with need to upgrade their packaging. They were a new vendor to Lowe's and wanted to see if it was possible to create a package that would be eye-catching and highlight the prominent floor space they were getting in store. Our ability to direct print in high detail allowed them to make huge strides graphically with their presentation and also be as efficient as possible with the price and output.

Printing food flexographically is very challenging to do a make it look good. We have become very good at this process and continue to perfect it daily using the technology and equipment we have. The structure and shape of this box made it a little more difficult to work with as well.

With this box, we had a simulated process, so we had to use PMS colors instead of the typical CMYK. This is all done in pre-press and was done in order to keep it 4 color on our press.

Esko Art Pro+

Typical issues that were dealt with were warped board issues. This problem is especially difficult when direct printing. We did a 6 out layout and the print and register were handled automatically using the technology we have with our Gopfert press.

Gopfert HBL dual die cutting press

This box required a folding and gluing. Due to the shape the boxes were hard to "spank" square so it required a very technical and detailed set up on the folder/gluer

Post 2m specialty folder gluer

200 B Kemi / 40lb med / Sustainable

Shanghai Jiucheng Packing Co.,Ltd.

Pudong, Shanghai / 上海市, China

his series of products adopt different bag making methods, and the products have a good visual impact after canning; the size of the bag is too big, need special bag making machine and special typesetting method.

When confirming the manuscript to the customer, we should clarify the customer's needs and clearly mark the plate making process.

Epson7910

Printing controls the color darkness and ink viscosity during the production process.

Leo Paper Products Ltd.

Kowloon, Kowloon, Hong Kong

for Hennessy XO 70ml/75ml packing

stamping process

indiago/HP 7900

green ink/Unique stamping technology

9C machine

Night Owls

Houston, Texas

This is a 4 color discharge print, of an original drawing from artist Craig Gleason.

This job required us to layer discharge inks on top of one another to blend and create different colors. The difficulty was in testing the opacity of the discharge inks to make sure they would layer and provide the correct colors once printed, and fully discharged.

This was separated in house, by Valerie Solomon, to allow the discharge inks to layer correctly. We had to test different layering of the colors, to ensure we printed discharge colors in the correct order.

This was printed on a Roq 16/36 oval press. Screens were made with a Kiwo XTS wax system. All inks are Fujifilm/Sericol Discharge inks, printed through Saati Hidro 157/48 mesh, on roller frames.

Night Owls

Houston, Texas

The Paragon project tshirt was printed for an organization that works with musicians, artists, and poets. We were recommended to this particular client, as they did not want a DTG print, and were having difficulty printing this design. They were told this particular design could not be printed. 

Most shops would have run this as a DTG, but with it's order size, and complexity, we wanted to give it a shot screen printed. Aside from it being a complex print, Night Owls only prints with waterbased ink. So that extra layer made it even more challenging.

This project combined a few interesting challenges. We wanted to reduce screen count and simplify on-press production while retaining an enviable amount of detail and color accuracy. To reduce color count, we manually separated red, yellow, cyan, blue, and magenta… creating greens by applying a separated green channel to yellow and cyan. A 55LPI amplitude-modified dot allowed for a reasonable amount of detail within the illustration, while maintaining exceptional on-press control. With some areas in the the illustration narrowing to under 0.5” wide, our separation balanced form and function, production-ease and detail. Screens were made with Spyder III Wax unit. Exposed with Olec Metal Halide Unit.

It's a 10 color front, 5 color back, and 2 color sleeves. All printed with Matsui High Solid Acrylic Waterbased ink. All art was seperated in house, and printed on Roq Automatic presses. All screens were Saati Hidro Mesh.

Roq 16/36 Oval automatic press.

FiberLok Technologies, Inc.

Fort Collins, Colorado

This multi-colored flocked heat transfer visually captures the honor and solemn prestige of an organization that assists and supports the military men and women who have so bravely served and sacrificed for our country.

The flocked grey-scale photo-effect creates the fine details desired by the customer. ASD was unable to recreate this logo using embroidery or screen printing to their customer’s satisfaction, so by using LexTraPrint, ASD was able deliver a finished product with the black & white photo effect and maintain the fine details in the image to win this competitive branding program.

"A common challenge is using a customer-supplied image and having production artists meet the required manufacturing specifications without greatly altering or sacrificing the integrity of the original design. In this case, maintaining the fine details and established photo-effect in the final product. Each color used in a flocked design requires its own screen to be produced and particular attention is paid to getting photo effects to translate appropriately to colored sections."

Artwork done in Adobe Creative Suite on PC

"Multiple screens are created based on number of colors within a design using emulsion for each layer. Design screens have applied bond and those with prominent colors, or particularly contrasting hues, often are run thru our press multiple times to maintain clear lines and sufficient color depth. "

Processed on an MHM Synchroprint 3000

Final product is backed with adhesive and cut in cell sheets for final application by the customer.

Modified Heidelberg Cylinder press with custom cutting boards to maximize yield and cost effectiveness.

.75mm Nylon Flock fibers

Shenzhen International Color Printing Co.,Ltd

Longhua Zone Shenzhen, Guangdong / 广东省, China

Prints that integrate printing technology and IT technology。

Main special innovation and new technology and process manufacturing process，refer to the manual brief introduction

Print on the Epson Stylus Pro 9910 HD machine，And the paper is imported rice paper， color reduction is very realistic。 Even the Heidelberg CP could not achieve this effect

Pro 9910 HD

Color surface paper with high - definition digital printing, color saturation gorgeous.

Print on the Epson Stylus Pro 9910 HD machine

Imported ironing paper from Japan makes the light softer.2. Personalized illustrations beautify your life, add love and company to your life. Digital printing on special paper, PET screen printing on cylinder lamp cover, and skillfully combine printing technology with IT electronic Bluetooth, charging and adjustable light source by using hot and convex surface paper or colored surface paper according to cylinder box process.Music box and other fine production of paper objects night language series lamps.

Bora 115 paper cutting machine, Ya Hua die-cutting machine, MBO folding machine

1.150G Japanese imported paper, 80GAA rice paper

Shanghai, Shanghai / 上海市, China

Brick carving (painting) is based on popular stories of Chinese history (from Pangu to today). There are more than 500 people in each historical stage, including hundreds of scenes, buildings, mountains and rivers. From the humanistic point of view, the work collects the classic stories of science and technology, education, politics, military, medicine, literature, art, religion, nationality, marketplace, folk custom, foreign exchange and so on. The form is long scroll, the composition is freehand brushwork of the Yangtze River, symbolizing the long river of history, the carving technique adopts the combination of deep and shallow relief, and the binding is album.

The blue brick is carved by hand and the rubbing is printed by hand.

PS design, green brick carving

Electric grinder

Rubbings on green bricks

Tuobao, brush, ink, wool felt

Rice paper mounting

Nothing

Rice paper

Stechcol Ceramic Crafts Development (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

Shenzhen, Guangdong / 广东省, China

"Magnificent Scene" Porcelain engraving introduction: Kenya Lake Megadi, with high PH value up to 11-12, the sun can turn the lake water temperature up to 50 degrees Celsius. High temperature saline water and trass volcanic ash’s chemical reaction make the water with a thin layer of mysterious color crystal. When wind comes, it forms magical colorful ribbons. With flamingos flying over it, the lake becomes magnificent scene.

By using Stechcol colour enamels patent technology, using Ferro ceramic pigments. Very skillful spots color seperation, using best ceramic pigments to create this artwork, 3 times firing to make it.

7 color process plus spots color

laser phototypesetting machine, Japan CTS technology

More than 20 years skillful technical person to print this artwork, make sure each step is precise and perfect.

use Germany heidelberg printing machine

Select the best quality porcelain tile to decorate, very skillful technical person to decorate it.

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Mittera

Des Moines, Iowa

City & Lifestyle Magazine

Web Printing on Matte Stock with an Extremely Tight Timeframe

Prepress Adjustments were made for Web Printing on Matte Stock

Printergy / InSite

4/4 Process + Soft Touch on Outside Covers Only

Heidelberg M500 (Text) + KBA Rapida 106 (Cover)

Die Score Covers & Perfect Bind

Kolbus

120# Opus Dull Cover + 80# Influence Matte Text

Emirates Printing Press

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

High quality Fashion magazine "Villa88", printed by Emirates Printing Press, Dubai.

4 colour printing on the Sheetfed offset for inside pages with Cover with Gloss Aqua varnish throughout for inside pages and also for IFC & IBC + Matt lamination and Spot UV on outer cover

# 200 Line screen used Processed with FOGRA 39 /CMYK ISO COATED V2 - The European Standrad Profile

GMG colour server and ink optimiser, Kodak prinergy worlk flow, Kodak trendsetter CTP

4 colours sheetfed offset printing

Heidelberg Speedmaster XL-106 LX3

Perfect Binding

115 gsm art gloss / 350 gsm Art card

1010 Printing International Ltd.

Huizhou, Guangdong / 广东省, China

A case bound book

Heidelberg 4C

Case: 4c (process color) + matt lamination + spot gloss UV + debossing on front, Book block 3 edges with 1c gilding (metallic green).

case bound: Kolbus BF530

text: 140g OJI Top Kote Matt Art paper

Body of Work and Armstrong miller & Mclaren

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Body of Work's Endless Journey Portrait book/catalogue

Our Creative Director/Photographer is hands on from the original concept to completion All equipment from Camera to Printing are linked wth the same calibration ensuring what is seen in the camera is identical to what is achieved in the final product

All the challenges are addressed before the printers prepress.

Heidelberg Prinect and Kodak Prinergy

The entire job was proofed and such was the quality of the prepress no changes were necessary

Heidelberg Speedmaster CD74

The cover and dust jacked were scalpture embossed.

Heidelberg Supra Setter

Sappi McCoy Silk

Jacaty + Associates

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Outdoor / Hunting Apparel & Accessories Catalog

Web Printing on Matte Stock with an Extremely Tight Timeframe

Prepress Adjustments were made for Web Printing on Matte Stock

Printergy / InSite

4/4 Process + Satin Aqueous on Outside Covers Only

Heidelberg M500 / Komori Lithrone G40

Perfect Bind

Kolbus

80# Opus Dull Cover + 70# Influence Matte Text

C & C Joint Printing Co., (H.K.) Ltd.

Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

5c printing on high quality matt art paper

with wide tonal range and high denfination images

Kodak Prinergy SCREEN PT-R8900S

with wide tonal range and high denfination images

KBA

KOLBUS

Golden Sun FSC Mix Credit Matt art paper

C & C Joint Printing Co., (H.K.) Ltd.

Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

The pamphlet set is made up of three hardback books and posters and a display box with several car brand logos

three hardback books and posters and a display box with several car brand logos

Kodak Prinergy SCREEN PT-R8900S

Heidelberg

three hardback books and posters and a display box with several car brand logos

KOLBUS

SpaceShuttle A matt art paper

Red & Blue Color Printing Co., Ltd.

Zhonghe Dist., New Taipei City, Taiwan

The National Palace Museum 2021 calendar uses a special lightweight design to convey profound annual blessings. The production process is diverse, including silver cover UV printing, inner pages perforating, box cover with imitation wood texture and many others.

The success of this project comes from two major factors: The first is the prints can convey the essence of the ancient paintings. The second is the precise craftsmanship of each operation gives this product a high-quality feel.

Accurate color management. The color performance of this product is highly loyal to the original.

Kodak Prinergy workflow + Epson SureColor SC-P9000 Proofer (Compose Express RIP) + Kodak Trendsetter Platesetter

Calendar cover: UV 4/0 + white ink printing. Inside pages: 4/0 printing. Box cover: 1/0 PMS printing. Sleeve: 2/0 PMS printing: Bag: 5/0 printing.

Calendar cover: Komori LS 640+LX. All others: Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102-5+L

Calendar cover: Dull coating. Inside pages: perforating. Box cover: Anti-scratch coating, stamping and scoring. Box: F flute corrugating, die cutting, gluing and forming. Binding: Wire binding with hanger. Others: Bags making, components assembling.

Coating, perforating, calendar binding, corrugating, die cutting and gluing machines

Cover: MetsäBoard Pro FBB Bright 230gsm C1S, mounted on silver paper. Inside pages: Hankuk X-Pri 180gsm art paper. Box: 360gsm art card. Box cover: 480gsm fine art card. Sleeve: 130gsm fine art paper. Bag: 250gsm C1S art card

Body of Work and Armstrong miller & Mclaren

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The package consists of envelope, 4pp letterhead and business card with envelope. This stationary package has been designed to be personalised. The letterhead is four pages. When there is a single page letter (as sample) the letter is on page 1 and the business card envelope is attached to page 3 with the business card inside. In the event of a two page letter the second page is on the inside back cover with the business card underneath. If the second page is full length the business card is attached to page 4 . For a multipage a loose page or pages are inserted behind page one and a long letter can be saddle stitched.

What makes this package unique is the creative flair

There were no technical challenges

Cannon

There were no technical challenges

Cannon C800

Die cut and embossed

Conventional binding equipment

Stardream

Leo Paper Products Ltd.

Kowloon, Kowloon, Hong Kong

The 2020 Leo Paper Group Annual Announcement invitation card uses a complex layers of pop-up design to create a scenary of sunflower garden, sublimated by a bronze hot stamping on flowers make it even more attractive. The envelope uses a unique sunflower die-cut design to create a unique and 3-dimensional effect.

Komori

C & C Joint Printing Co., (H.K.) Ltd.

Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

Combining multiple folders in book form in which the cards can be placed by time

Unique binding mode

Kodak Prinergy SCREEN PT-R8900S

Heidelberg

Unique binding mode

Hand made

Golden Sun woodpaper

Multi-Color Corporation North America Wine & Spirits

Napa, California

Pressure sensitive label for wine bottle

Printing on black vellum can always be a challenge. Hot foil over vellum with 3 color process overprinting to achieve the assortment of colors desired by the client.

20 micron stochastic line screening over the foil stamping.

Kodak Trendsetter / AGFA processor

Prints UV offset. Black vellum, hot foil, Magenta, Yellow, and Black overprinting, flexo varnish, sculpted flatbed embossing, flat die cutting.

Gallus TCS250

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N/A

Avery Black Vellum

Shanghai Young Sun Printing Co. Ltd

Pudong, Shanghai / 上海市, China

1. The patented structure of the linked pull gift box is used. The bottom ribbon is used to open the gift box while the upper cover automatically slides in. The upper cut edge and the inner box form a vase shape, showing the lining and the inner box with flowers and makeup patterns. 2. The cut of the outer box adopts the hemming process, and the spot color oil edge ink is applied to echo the gold edge of the box surface; it is covered with an anti-scratch film to prevent scratches. 3. The outer box is printed on silver cardboard, and the pattern is outlined by the embossing process, which fits the attributes of the product's red glaze porcelain. 4. There is a small lipstick box inside, which adopts a double box flip structure to enhance the fun to use.

Use Adobe Illustrator for graphic processing, Esko automated process for graphic and text color separation and screen, amplitude modulation dots to control graphic gradation, AGFA AVALON A8T platemaking machine directly CTP publishing.

AGFA AVALON A8T

UV printing, printing metallic ink on bright silver card, simulating the metallic luster of red glaze porcelain

Man Roland 707+V

The gift box face paper is covered with anti-scratch film, embossing and die-cutting are produced online, the inner box is produced by an automatic box folding machine, and the envelope is pasted using environmentally friendly glue and piping.

FM1100 high-precision laminating machine, Bobst106ER full stripping die-cutting machine ZK-582 box folding machine

MULTI COLOR CORPORATION AUSTRALIA

MILE END SOUTH, South Australia, Australia

WINE LABEL

SCREEN IMAGE & CMYK

APPLE MAC, ESKO & ILLUSTRATOR

PRINTED ON UNCOATED STOCK, CMYK, A ROSE GOLD FOIL, A MATT VARNISH, PLUS A SCREEN H/BUILD '125W' MESH AND A SPOT MATT VARNISH. CHALLENGE - SCREEN IMAGE REGISTRATION & CONSISTANCY OF CMYK COLOURS.

HP INDIGO WS 6600 & DIGICON

ROTOFLEX - CONVERSION

RAFWINE CHATEAU ENHANCED - RAFLATAC

Xerox

Webster, New York

Pulp Madness is a collection of prints that showcases the wide range of application possibilities using the Xerox iGen 5 Press production capabilities including 5th station embellishments, specialty substrates, and an extensive media range. It includes a bound book, a extended sheet book cover jacket and a protective folding carton carrying case.

The iGen 5 supports White, Clear, Fluorescent Yellow embellishments, plus Orange, Green and Blue extended gamut colors to reach 93% of the Pantone Plus library. Thick stock up to 24 point and extended XLS sheet size up to 35" are also used. All capabilities are run at rated production speed and require minimal, mess-free maintenance for 5th color changeovers - with no productivity trade-offs. No other digital production press is able to run the breadth of applications that the iGen 5 can with 85-90% uptime and running jobs at rated speed. The diversity provides maximum application and production flexibility for complex jobs.

The Fiery DFE and iGen 5 inline profiling quickly profiles media and ensures colors are accurate and consistent across the print runs from print 1 to N across the vast array of media used in the book

EFI DFE

Thick stock over 24 pt uses the optional thick stock kit XLS sheets over 26" use the XLS kit with production feeding and stacking 5th color kits include Fluorescent Yellow, White, Clear and Extended Gamut Colors Orange, Green and Blue These capabilities are all run at production rated speed.

Xerox iGen 5 with 5th print station

collation of print sets and binding. Die cuts and folding

various

Book Jacket: Verso Blazer Digital Gloss 100# Cover (270 gsm) / Folding Carton: 18pt Neenah Stipple Folding Board / Samples: Verso Blazer Digital Gloss 100# Cover (270 gsm); Reich Paper SHINE 137# Cover (370 gsm) Pearl; Reich Paper SHINE Digital 107# Cover (290 gsm) Champagne; Mohawk Via Felt 80# Cover (216 gsm) Bright White *Mohawk Via Linen 80# Cover (216 gsm) Bright White Mohawk Superfine Eggshell 100# Cover (270 gsm) Ultrawhite *Arjowiggins Curious Collection Matter 100# Cover (270 gsm) Goya White; Sappi McCoy Silk 100# Cover (280 gsm); GPA Constellation Jade Riccio for Toner Digital Presses 80# Cover (215 gsm); Neenah Esse Pearlized 105# Cover (285 gsm) White; Neenah Environment 120# DTC (324 gsm) Grocer Kraft; Arjowiggins Curious Collection Matter 100# Cover (270 gsm) Black Truffle and Red and Gold Leaf; GPA Ultra Digital 2” Diameter Kiss-Cut Circle Labels on 60# Matte Litho Facestock with Permanent Adhesive and 80# White Liner and Kiss cut and rectangle labels; Mohawk Performance Polyester 10 mil and 14 mil; GPA 4 mil White Flexible Vinyl with Low Peel Removable Scored Liner 80# White Kraft and Clear Flexible Vinyl; Ancora SBS C2S 20pt Cover (391 gsm); Neenah Folding Board Vellum 24pt 172# DTC (465 gsm) Kraft

Consolidated Printing

VAN BUREN, Arkansas

Las Vegas Raiders 2020 Season Ticket Book

The job has 15 different ticket types with 10 different unique game art types with each ticket and book personalized with season ticket holder seating and barcode information. Each game also has unique foil and scodix polymer (raised UV). There are also challenges with matching up the foil and scodix polymer to perfectly match up with the print as the stock goes through a minimum of 4 machines (perf, igen, foil, scodix). The front cover is hot foil stamped with a textured foil dies and emboss using traditional dies.

There are 15 different types of art for 10 unique games. All is variably driven. Foil layers had to be hand drawn for each game.

Macintosh Work Stations, Rollem Perforator

Stock is pre-perfed so when running the operators must make sure stock is stacked properly and fed straight and the proper direction into the machines. Registration must be watched closely as the scodix and foil must match up later on the tickets and we must watch closely for static lines.

Xerox iGen 5

When running the foil and polymer on scodix the operators must pay very close attention to detail as the polymer and foil must match up perfectly to the art on the tickets. All types must also be watched closely so they match up on the scodix as they are type and game specific. On the front cover foil and emboss we must pay close attention that the texture fills in and the emboss aligns to the flat foil. Hand collating is also done to match up the back cover (which is account specific) to the correct set of tickets. Precise cuts must be made and care must be taken as the scodix causes the stock to be uneven due to the it being raised.

Scodix, Kluge Platen / Foil Stamper, Polar Paper Cutter, Interlake Stitcher, Tape Stripping Machine, Hand Collating

12pt Semper C1S Cast Coated Paper / Semper

Body of Work and Armstrong miller & Mclaren

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

We have a small but affluent and identifiable market. Our product is high end Fine Art It is vital that every element of the direct marketing is high-end compatable with the product we are selling We circulate a magazine every month and every quarter we send an elaborate presentation such as this with loose leafs. It works and it has been working well for the last 18 year. In this quarter we introduced the new Body of Work Black and White Series.

To maintain our high standard, every element of our marketing must be perfect, stylish and possess flair and originality. This applies to the product and all elements of the marketing. Every element is check thoroughly.

The prepress is very straight forward without challenges. This is because every stage is synchronised calibration from the camera to the printing press. The creative director/photographer has total control of the whole process. Our policy is "Get it right in the camera" and by doing this there are no compromises along the way. We adapt this policy to our product and our marketing.

Canon Prepress

With our system it is straight forward without any complications

C800

Cellogloss and Spot UV throughout. Matt cello gloss on cover

Sakurai Silkscreen SC72A

Sovereign Silk from Hansol in Korea

Emirates Printing Press

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

It was a hilarious and challenging task from the concept. Creativity, Design, Substrate. Process and finishing planning and execution whole catalogue with 10 pages. Each leaf has a different pattern of 3D effect.

Multiple foil and 3D varnish process done to achieve the effect

"GMG Media used for proofing SCREEN - 175 LPI"

"Printing _ Envelope - Special base lamination Printing_Leaflets - Digital Printing : Process color "

Xerox - IGEN 4 color printing

Digital UV foiling with 6 colors (Gold/ Silver / Red/ Green / Gold Holo / Silver Holo) / Digital 3d effect varnish

Foiling & 3D varnish - MGI

250 Gsm Matt Cart

All American Print Supply Co.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Presenting what and how to print on shirt and inspiring others who is interested in printing business or already in it.

All processes are crucial and it may concern all the other possibilities affecting the printing performance, quality, and result with all other angles. However, we think the essential part is how to pretreating the shirt. It is the basic step but, it is the root and foundation how to make better performance and result.

We would like to highlight a few points of prepress step. - Temperature - Prepress time - Type of shirt (Cotton, poly or others) - Amount of pretreatment distribution - Type of pretreatment

Hotronix Auto Open Clam Heat Press (16"x20")

We would like to highlight a few points of printing/presswork step. - Printing location (Where print will be applied) - Platen height - Printer maintenance: ink, nozzle check, head cleaning, suction check

Epson F3070/Hotronix Auto Open Clam Heat Press (16"x20")

We would like to highlight a few points for finishing step. - Temperature - Pressure - Post-press Time -Type of shirt (Cotton, poly or others)

Hotronix Auto Open Clam Heat Press (16"x20")

100% Ring-Spun Combed Cotton-Black (Smartex apparel)

LSINC

Huntsville, Alabama

The Mandala package is an example of replicating embossed glass and screenprinting into a single Digital DTO process that is capable of articulating around the curvature of a 3D cylindrical object seamlessly.

The true innovation of this print is the use of a digital helical print engine combined with articulating print heads to seamlessly print over curvatures of contoured media in a single pass. Further, the package showcases a digital "emboss" embellishment well outside of the traditional label panel, transforming an otherwise standard wine bottle into something tactile and eye-catching. The challenge to produce is in the print file setup, where geometries for the articulating printheads must be offset to maintain consistent line weights, offset distortion, and maintain consistent ink laydown on changing diameters.

All work is digital beginning with Adobe Illustrator. Spot colors/layers for primer, white, and varnish were defined for ONYX Rip. The design was then offset and skewed to account for the change in diameter from the body of the media to the neck. A process white gradient mask was then applied to offset the change in droplet density as the diameter of the media decreases while printing. The file was ripped at 1247x1200 with defined spot colors (primer/varnish) to create the embossed effect.

All digital. Adobe Illustrator, ONYX rip.

The challenge in the press work for this package is the programming of media geometry for a helical print over the contour of the media, while maintaining consistent printhead gap and resolution. The media was printed at 6.5 revolutions per second, with a print gap of 2mm in a single pass.

LSINC Perivallo360m

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Glass 750mL Celia-059 provided by GloPak Wine & Spirits

GSP Marketing Technologies Inc.

CLEARWATER, Florida

Lizard in a tree.

Graphic Trends, Inc.

Paramount, California

This beautiful acrylic and expanded plastic display feature a LED illuminated spinning carousel of cosmetic foundation products powered by D-size batteries hidden within the center product factice. The display has a motion detection sensor that turns the lights on from one direction after sensing motion and automatically turns the lights off to continue to conserve battery life. The "delay" off to on prevents the LEDs to stay illuminated in a high-traffic area.

This multi-faceted display requires intelligent engineering, creativity, precision printing, followed up with a package that will deliver to stores on time and in great condition. Having to create an innovative eye-catching product display that was able to be both functional and elegant while supporting a battery life of 7 plus weeks in a high traffic retailer was a particular challenge.

Adobe Creative Suite / Autodesk Inventor

EFI Vutek 5330

Kongsberg Router

Expanded Polystyrene - Acrylic - Corrugated Tube - Coated Paper - Gold Foil Lamination

VIVAS, Inc.

San Francisco, California

This project is what we call an “all in one.” When we first met our client, TURO, they asked our advice on how to make the project successful. As interior experts we were able to combine different substrates and use a variety of printers and products to highlight TURO’s branding colors.

The most challenging section of this project was designing and installing the three layers that were needed for the conference room décor. We printed translucent material and after it was installed, we applied a big logo shape with the frost material.

Wall graphics and elevator wrap: Roland DG TrueVIS VG2-640 64-inch wide format inkjet printer/cutter. Window graphics: Roland DG VersaUV LEJ-640 64-inch flatbed hybrid UV-LED printer

Wall graphics: Matte Over lamination 3M- 8520; Elevator wrap: lamination matte- 3M- 8520; Window graphics: Hexis Frost, Hexis Translucent; Conference room: 3M Diochric

Wall graphics: 3M Controltac 40C-10; Elevator wrap: 3M IJ 180 - 3M- 8520; Window graphics: Hexis SUPTAC S5000; Conference room: 3M Diochric

Diocesan

Orlando, Florida

Using the classical painting, The Annunciation by Masucci as a base, we created a banner to celebrate the Annunciation of Mary feast day.

created using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

Sai Production Mgr 12 RIP

Because we are using custom specified media and ink, calibration is very important and the Sai RIP allows us calibrate our printers to our requirements

Epson SureColor T5270

Custom Polypropylene base with Aqueous Receptor

MADS

Mexico, Ciudad de México, Mexico

It is a faithful reproduction of wood carvings belonging to the Zapotec mythology made by the artist according to his ancestral family traditions

It was really difficult to capture the technique, color and execution of the pieces using CMYK printing techniques since the colors used by the artist are made by hand mixing natural pigments with different substances such as lemon juice and even mezcal

The color separation was carried out through several photographs of the same piece, that mixed together, managed to reproduce the extraordinary color of the artist in the sculpture

MAC Computer

The art was printed on handmade paper, excellently mixing the 4 primary colors, thus reproducing the complete range of colors used by the artist in his work of art

HP

Each piece was manually varnished to register with a wide texture varnish, thus achieving volume and shine to the print. The container was made by hand by bookbinding artisans using printed fabric to achieve the texture of the cover that represents the work of the Zapotec craftsmen

Homemade

Wide Open Throttle Graphics

Lacombe County, Alberta, Canada

This themed wrap project included designing, producing and applying graphics to 2019 Ram 1500 Sport pickup truck, a Cross Traxx Sled Deck, a 2019 Ski Doo Summit, and a 2020.5 Ski Doo Summit Factory Turbo.

This multi-vehicle wrap project was made more challenging by an extremely tight deadline: I completed three quarters of it in 48 hours, with an extra four hours added later to wrap the Turbo. Sled wraps are very unique and 100% customizable to the rider and their style. I feel that innovation is also key in creating impactful vehicle and powersports graphics, and using the best substrates and printer in the industry helps make my job a little easier.

Roland DG TrueVIS VG2-540 54-inch wide format printer/cutter

Substance Inc. U1500

Substance Inc. UltraCurve X1

Mountain Commercial Graphics

Houston, Texas

Grand Format Building Murals (2) each, 64' wide x 20' tall for the main entry of Space Center Houston. Graphics designed by Jody Draper, Space Center Houston.

John Carthey Installations brought this project to Mountain Commercial Graphics for 3M Certified Production and a very tight deadline of 3 weeks to receive production ready artwork, manufacture the murals and install the graphics for the Memorial Day Weekend. The left wall is a changeable graphic and has a set of windows 31.5' wide x 4.5' tall within the mural. We specified 3M changeable film IJ180mC-10UR with 3M 8519 Lustre Laminate for the vinyl application and 3M 8170-P40 Perforated Window Film with 3M 8914 Window Laminate for the windows. The right wall is a longterm graphic and we specified 3M IJ180Cv3-10 with 3M 8519 Lustre Laminate. All graphics were premasked with 3M SCPM-3. The installation was done with a lift and John Carthey Installations provided a protective ground barrier to protect the pavers while moving to each section. On the left wall we provided the full mural in vinyl to cover all molding. The vinyl on the glass was removed and the window film was then installed.

The artwork was provided to us with a 4" bleed on all sides and we paneled the file within our Fiery RIP in (2) rows of (15) even panels with a 1" overlap left, right and top to bottom. The windows on the left wall were cropped per our template with a 4" bleed on all sides and paneled within our Fiery RIP in 7 even panels with a 1" overlap.

efiFiery Pro Server, Software Version 6.5.0.5.1

Labelling feature was turned on to help identify panels in the finishing stage of lamination. Quality check for image and resolution was performed and adjusted as needed.

efiVUTEk 3r+

All panels once laminated, premasked and trimmed were re-labeled clearly left to right, top to bottom and packaged in the order they would be installed coming off the roll first.

AGL 64i

All 3M MCS Vinyls and Laminates listed above.

Just Vision It LLC

Lone Jack, Missouri

Project specs design an 8’x 8’ free standing floor graphic and a 9’x10’ hanging banner for a rotating display 25’ above the actual show area. This project was for a gaming meeting in Las Vegas June 2021 we had three days to complete this project!

Taking our SEG Modular system we were able to reconfigure the layout so the client could create a very strong visual graphic that would catch the eye of the attendees. My Hero Academia is world renowned and one of the fastest growing brands in the gaming industry. We again used our newest print technology by taking the submitted graphics and running them through our 8 color Panthera S4. The color gamut we were able to achieve with these images were truly remarkable providing a huge gain in how the finished product look while on display. The submitted sample for consideration is a small version of the actual print size Client was extremely thrilled again with the end results

Panthera S4 3.2M 8-color

Fast dry 126" 95 gsm

FiberLok Technologies, Inc.

Fort Collins, Colorado

Capturing this football club's distinct, professionalism within a design that communicates spirited excitement was achieved by this multi-color flocked heat transfer and dye sublimation layer.

Maintaining distinct registration between dimensional graphic layers is complex. Over-printing flock colors without color bleeding and matching that up to a dye sublimated layer that has it's own patterns and designs creates visual depth and interest.

Using the customer-supplied image our production artists had to meet the required manufacturing specifications without greatly altering or sacrificing the integrity of the original design and determine what areas will be cut out for dye-sublimated inserts.

Artwork done in Adobe Creative Suite on PC

Multiple screens are created based on number of colors within a design using emulsion for each layer. Design screens have applied bond and those with prominent colors, or particularly contrasting hues, often are run thru our press multiple times to maintain clear lines and sufficient color depth. This design also has a printed dye sublimated insert that is hand-matched to the flock overlay and sealed together.

Flock layer: Processed on an MHM Synchroprint 3000 Sub dye layer: Printed on Epson SheerColor F6200 using Epson UltraChrome DS ink on Epson DS Transfer Adhesive Textile Paper, then transferred to fabric through a drum laminator.

Flocked sheet with sub dye insert cut out into uniform "cells" for ease of customer application.

Modified Heidelberg Cylinder press with custom cutting boards to maximize yield and cost effectiveness.

.75mm Nylon Flock fibers & Sub dye printed Obi-Tex fabric

Shanghai New Island Packaging Printing Co., Ltd.

Pudong, Shanghai / 上海市, China

The work uses red artistic paper with three-dimensional hot stamping technology, puts the red and gold in the traditional Chinese colors in the limited space. Envelope: The work has a three-dimensional and tactile texture, which reflects the exquisite gilding technology. Inner box: It now demonstrates the beauty of traditional Chinese ink painting, using a variety of foil stamping techniques and laser die cutting. Instruction manual: fine art paper hot-stamping wire gives the product the spirit of pursuing the ultimate, and it also reflects the exquisite hot-stamping technology.

KODAK Q800 CTP

HEIDELBERG XL75-8+L-F

BOBST SP106ER/ BOBST FOLDER & GLUER

C & C Joint Printing Co., (H.K.) Ltd.

Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

Case cover with foil Stamping and debossing.

Clean and fine detail of both foil stamping and debossing

Kodak Prinergy SCREEN PT-R8900S

Heidelberg

Clean and fine detail of both foil stamping and debossing

KOLBUS

Jade Dragon woodpaper

Changzhou City Jintan Ancient Books Printing Factory Co., Ltd.

Changzhou City, Jiangsu / 江苏省, China

《Make up in Mulan period》 is an introduction of various make up styles for women during Mulan period. The content is designed specifically for teenager girls. However, the scroll is well liked by a lot of people because of it’s unique folding and binding form. The folding and binding form is called dragon scales bound, because it’s internal page scales are stacked like dragon scales. The fun part is that, it can be turned from the beginning to the end, or from the back to the front, flowing smoothly like a “ whirlwind”, so also known as the whirlwind. The audiences do not only enjoy the scroll’s knowledge, but also enjoy the playfulness of it’s binding and folding.

We are used to pack the long scroll by wrapping it up into a round scroll for shipping. However, the charming part of the scroll is we can turn it from left to right and backwards as a flow. It would only flow nicely when it is flat. If we ship it by wrapping it up, it would takes days and efforts to make it flat again. We are not sure whether our judges would have the time. Therefore, we made a long enough box to make sure it lays there flat. We also send in a video through email to show how to pay around with the scroll like whirlwind. In order for our cardboard box to be strong enough for the travel, we embedded the wood board in the box.

Using high-precision non-contact scanner to scan the original copy; careful contrast and color management (ErgoSoft Posterprint RIP V15); using CTP precision plate making technology to publish, to achieve no color loss.

ErgoSoft Posterprint RIP V15

Three form of printing: 1、Using Heidelberg Four-Colour Press, four-color printing on special handmade Xuan paper presenting the content. 2、Using of screen printing for the title on the cover of the box. 3、Using of hot stamping printing for the embroidery on the cover of the box.

Heidelberg four-color printing press, the screen printing brush and other equipment, the hot-stamping heater

It took very experienced workers 158 procedures to finish the whole thing. Especially, when comes to folding, the folding line between left page and right page must be accurate. Otherwise, it can not be formed as a completed picture. Furthermore, the top to bottom has to be exact same for each page. Otherwise, the picture frame wouldn’t be at one horizontal level, the picture will not be looking good. Each of the procedures demands our experienced workers' full attention.

Handmade

Xuan paper are traditional Chinese paper hand made for classical painting and calligraphy. The main raw materials of Xuan paper are sandalwood bark and rice straw. As a result, Xuan paper is thin and ductile, with good ink embellishing properties, and ability to last and hold the color for centuries. However, due to its softness and tiny holes on the surface, the printing effect is not as normal paper. The color can be eaten from time to time. This is why the normal practice of Xuan paper printing is to put a layer on top of Xuan paper to fill the holes before print. The drawbacks of that practice are first very costly and then the fact that the ink stays on the surface bringing in less authentic looking and easy to fade. As a specialist in printing directly on Xuan paper, Jintan Ancient books printing has dedicated more than 20 years of research and development in Xuan paper color printing. We have overcome all the technical difficulties of direct printing on Xuan paper while printing millions of ancient color books for national libraries and museums.

Shenzhen International Color Printing Co.,Ltd

Longhua Zone Shenzhen, Guangdong / 广东省, China

The book is beautifully bound and elegant. This exquisite handmade book is a perfect combination of creativity and craftsmanship, craftsmanship and art, as well as decorative and practical.Let you once again into the "Mogao Grottoes" world culture and art

Lock line with naked back special packing + book box and related accessories. (Lock line with 3 colors, red + green + blue +, printed with spot color pattern and 3 ribbons.Cover 2P frame mounted red silk die-cut frame, oil edge frame.The bottom plate is pressed with four corners of the light panel, the cover is mounted with paper linen, and the middle is stuck with a sheet of 0.3mm film and the surface is hot and matte gold.Middle Dunhuang font with coffee color acrylic electric engraving stuck to the bottom, the bottom with 2.0mm light panel pressure magnet position, surface layer + middle and electric engraving font + bottom to mount, inside the sand head mounted.Back cover shell 2P (double layer) : inner and outer layers of red silk coated panel, back mounted 120g linen paper white, outer back support to be mounted white silk, hot black paint + hot matte gold + air pressure concave.Binding difficulty is very high!

Pre-press design and production using advanced printing process The color curve was compared with the dot curve using the X-RITE test The Angle of the network cable is 175L

Kodak 800 iii

The color requirement of customer cultural relic pictures is very high. All pictures and series of colors should be the same.It must be strictly controlled.In the printing process must be well controlled, otherwise the curve must be adjusted in different places to ensure bright color

Heidelberg CP2000

Cover die cutting inside frame, oil edge inside frame The front cover of the book has two spots of matte gold。 Activity cover with 1mm thick PVC screen printing 3C (coffee, black, silver) Book back cover hot dumb gold 1 + air pressure concave 1, hot hot black paint 1 Book block wool size three side printing spot color pattern (red silk color) Box inside the wood UV screen printing blackThis hardcover book has a variety of binding technology, the difficulty of post-printing binding is very high! Relevant videos and production pictures will be attached to the email so that judges can witness the unique binding technology.

Bora 115 paper cutting machine, Ya Hua die-cutting machine, MBO folding machine, Warren Berg glue cage

１．128g snow brocade picture paper２．110G Star Rain Platinum Sandpaper Shee３．160g Italian Star Magic pape４．

Leo Paper Products Ltd.

Kowloon, Kowloon, Hong Kong

202 pages of laser die-cuts to present the storyline, bringing us a new reading experience.

Komori

Matt Lamination

DFP, DAF

Consolidated Printing

VAN BUREN, Arkansas

Las Vegas Raiders 2020 Season Ticket Book

The job has 15 different ticket types with 10 different unique game art types with each ticket and book personalized with season ticket holder seating and barcode information. Each game also has unique foil and scodix polymer (raised UV). There are also challenges with matching up the foil and scodix polymer to perfectly match up with the print as the stock goes through a minimum of 4 machines (perf, igen, foil, scodix). The front cover is hot foil stamped with a textured foil dies and emboss using traditional dies.

There are 15 different types of art for 10 unique games. All is variably driven. Foil layers had to be hand drawn for each game.

Macintosh Work Stations, Rollem Perforator

Stock is pre-perfed so when running the operators must make sure stock is stacked properly and fed straight and the proper direction into the machines. Registration must be watched closely as the scodix and foil must match up later on the tickets and we must watch closely for static lines.

Xerox iGen 5

When running the foil and polymer on scodix the operators must pay very close attention to detail as the polymer and foil must match up perfectly to the art on the tickets. All types must also be watched closely so they match up on the scodix as they are type and game specific. On the front cover foil and emboss we must pay close attention that the texture fills in and the emboss aligns to the flat foil. Hand collating is also done to match up the back cover (which is account specific) to the correct set of tickets. Precise cuts must be made and care must be taken as the scodix causes the stock to be uneven due to the it being raised.

Scodix, Kluge Platen / Foil Stamper, Polar Paper Cutter, Interlake Stitcher, Tape Stripping Machine, Hand Collating

12pt Semper C1S Cast Coated Paper / Semper

Atelier fuer Siebdruck Lorenz Boegli

Muentschemier, Bern, Switzerland

Postcards reproduced only in screen printing

Photographically reproduction only in screen printing

halftone screen 150 L/inch

screen printing in 3 colors grey/black, solvent based 650 sheets in format 102 x 75 cm with 36 postcards

Invercote G 350 g/m2 from Iggesund

Colornet Press

Van Nuys, California

When Cedars-Sinai approached Colornet Press to produce their annual Cognitive and Neurological Research Report, they were looking for a way to showcase their medical advances in a humble, yet relevant way. Knowing the effect of color on the brain, they wanted to promote everyday items with neurological benefit by photographing them with special lighting techniques falling outside of the CMYK gamut. Solution: Our proprietary printing technique called Amplify.

The colors of the brain scans did not convert well from RGB to CMYK. With a production run of 33000 and a very limited budget, the client could not afford to make the job six color Hi-Fi as the plates, additional make readies and the cost of the inks would increase by 50%. So we offered our proprietary printing technique called Amplify which is achived with only four colors but covers up to 88% of the RBG color gamut.

Amplify requires a different color calibration of proofing printers and printing plates than G7 and GRACoL standards. So the job has to be set up differently, the proof settings and plate curves are different as the inks are more intense and densities are much higher than conventional CMYK inks. Most images were retouched for maximum effects.

MAC computers, Epson SureColor P9000 proofer, Kodak Trendsetter Spectrum 8-up thermal platesetter, Fuji FLH 852 Supreme Plate processor

Amplify printing requires special inks that are more dense and must be printed with Stochastic screening. The combination of the denser inks and 20 micron dots require a press that is in perfect condition to maintain the proper water/ink balance to keep the dots open and sharp. Perfect ink release from the printing blankets to the paper is crucial especially at speeds of 13000 per hour.

Komori Lithrone LS 640 with a coating tower and HUV ink curing system.

The booklet was perfect bound with PUR adhesive for maximum durability.

Heidelberg Stahl 16 page folder, Polar 137 cutter, BZund G3 2500 digital cutter, Muller Martini Perfect binder

Cover: 95# Topkote dull cover, Text: 100# Topkote dull text

Xerox

Webster, New York

VI Suite’s unique specialty imaging technology validates that each produced document is genuine, embedding essential counterfeit protection right into each print Specialty Imaging effects add security and visual interest to enhance documents by including text or images that can only be viewed under special circumstances. Hidden text or images embedded into the print become visible under special viewing conditions or with the aid of simple tools such as a loupe, UV light, currency camera or when copied. Specialty Effects incorporated into the pieces include: - Microtext: Use this effect to create characters that are smaller than 1 point size. When viewed by the naked eye, the text looks like small dots. The printed content can be revealed using a loupe or magnifying glass.. - Fluorescent Marks: This mark appears as a speckled, colored box. The content is virtually impossible to decipher under normal light. But when a UV or black light is scanned over the circle, the content becomes visible. No special font is required. - Infrared Mark: Xerox Infrared Mark is printed text that is only visible in the dark, with an infrared camera. This mark appears as a speckled, colored box. The content is virtually impossible to decipher under normal light. But when a UV or black light is scanned over the circle, the content becomes visible -Correlation Marks: Xerox Correlation Mark with Vector Pattern Technology is printed text that is only visible when superimposed by a “key” overlay. When viewed by the naked eye, Correlation Mark vector pattern areas appear as a box with a color pattern. To increase security, the vector pattern, text, or image can be varied from ticket to ticket, pattern to pattern, and image to image. Two-layer patterns can also be created that read different messages with different validation keys. Each variation has its own validation key.

Specialty Imaging Security Techniques provide the ability to implement highly secure variable print techniques without special paper, inks or hardware. These techniques provide the following benefits: - You can boost security of traditional static security techniques by incorporating variable data so that each piece is unique. Layers of security techniques equals added protection. - Digital techniques can also streamline production by applying security in a single print process, reducing costs. Eliminate costly special substrates, preprinted stocks, along with the associated stocking and inventory management, and secondary print processes. - By streamlining the print into a single process, it also opens up creativity by allowing security techniques to be integrated right into designs so creativity can stay center stage.

Using the FreeFlow VI Suite Design Express Plug In, Designers can easily and creatively incorporate the specialty imaging security techniques into their designs and apply them in a variable nature. When it comes to composition, the design templates and data can be output to FreeFlow Core to accelerate the composition and automate the print production job processing and output management for an entirely touchless workflow.

Xerox FreeFlow VI Suite - Design Express with Specialty Imaging and FreeFlow Core Variable Data Module

Xerox Iridesse Production Press

Trim

C & C Joint Printing Co., (H.K.) Ltd.

Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

The book is equiped with VR glasses. You can download the corresponding APP into the VR glasses by using mobile phone, then you can see the ocean scenery and listen to the interactive explanation.

VR children's books

Kodak Prinergy SCREEN PT-R8900S

KBA

VR children's books

KOLBUS

Gold Sun FSC Mix Credit matt art paper

C & C Joint Printing Co., (H.K.) Ltd.

Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

1. FSC mix credit paper is used for text, endpaper, case and jacket. 2. The board is made of FSC recycled 100% raw material 3. Coswood green soybean ink 4. Using non-process plate

Green printing, all materials meet the requirements of environmental protection

Kodak Prinergy SCREEN PT-R8900S

Green printing, all materials meet the requirements of environmental protection

Heidelberg

KOLBUS

Snow Hawk FSC Mix Credit matt art paper

Body of Work and Armstrong miller & Mclaren

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

This is the official Body of Work Corporate Book

Most self promotion consists of companies with claims glorifying their products and services In our case we decided to create a self promotion book by demonstrating the quality and consistency of our work.

Our policy is to get it right in the camera. Our hands on creative director/photographer personally controls all aspects of the job from concept to completion. To attain this end all equipment from camera to printing press are collaborated so the image in the camera is identical to the finished product. I this case the challenge was to ensure all the spot UV is in perfect registration with the image.

Cannon

Because of the accuracy of the prepress the printing was fairly straight forward ensuring the registration of varnish and image was perfect.

Cannon C800

The job features spot UV on images throughout

Duplo DDC spot varnishing

Sovereign Silk from the Hansol Mill in Korea

RRD

Durham, North Carolina

Special edition collector's rigid box containing cards, dice, coins, card sleeves, booster packs, player's guide, and unique code card.

The client came to RRD in need of structural design and graphical embellishments to create a box to house multiple game objects. Multiple substrates, embellishments, components for kitting, etc. went into the box to create a premium look and feel.

Structural design and embellishments were key to bring the client's graphics to life to create a rich experience for the consumer.

Multi-component retail product featuring foil laminate on box wrap and gold foil stamped items (instruction guide and divider).

Komori 28" x 40"

C1S text litho (litho wrap), 100# gloss text + gold foil (instruction guide), C2S board + gold foil (tab divider)

C & C Joint Printing Co., (H.K.) Ltd.

Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

Gold and white stamping on case cover and printing with special red and green ink ; Box : 4c printing on 400g ivory board with black color stamping ; Shadow puppet: 4c printing on 400g ivory board box with gold stamping,

Shell spot color registration.

Kodak Prinergy Kodak Magnus 800 Quantum

Shell spot color registration.

HeidelbergCD102

ShengTu BOBST

gloss art paper

Shanghai Press and Publication Vocational-Technical School

Pudong, Shanghai / 上海市, China

"Tiger head shoes" is a kind of children's shoes made by traditional Chinese folk crafts. Because the toe cap looks like a tiger head, it is called tiger head shoes. It means good luck, hoping that children can grow up healthily and safely. The packaging adopts the shape of tiger head, and the overall design is lifelike. The hollowed out design of the tiger mouth can clearly show the built-in "tiger head shoes". The middle part of the package adopts the tearing design. When it is opened, the upper part of the package can be used as "tiger head cap". The packaging design is both ornamental and practical.

HP WorkStation ,Adobe Design Software,Artios CAD

HP FB700 Flat Printer

ESKO Die-Cutting

Pudong, Shanghai / 上海市, China

The book “Out of Shadow” introduces Chinese 24 solar terms in the form of Chinese traditional art --- Shadow Play. The book takes two volumes as a set of forms, including volume spring-summer and volume autumn-winter. This three dimensional book combines modern laser engraving technology with Chinese traditional folding style of Confucian classics, and adopts several post-painting techniques, such as screen printing, UV printing and blocking, presenting Chinese 24 solar terms in forms of gatefold, rotation, folding fan and so on. The book is equipped with 3D printing illuminant; when the shadow play image appears, the book becomes the light equipment simultaneously, combining art beauty with functionality perfectly.

AI draw the image and PS process to modify, Modeling in 3D MAX（lamp base）and 3D printing; Main material: Vegetable parchment , Yunlong paper , Art paper.

UV printing: Zhongyi Ink; Digital printing : Konica Minolta ; Hand-screen printing.

Laser engraving：Bosch Ketai 4060 laser engraving machine Kedu ; Blocking：GN-1800D ; Cutting; Indentation；Folding ; Mounting.