"liquid metallic" or "liquid foil" ink?

[amccolor]

Hi all,

I have a customer that provided us with a sample of sheetfed piece that is printed with what looks like a very shiny and reflective PMS877. The printed silver almost has a foil-like sheen to it.

Does anyone know of a sheetfed ink that will be able to print this almost foil-like silver effect?


Thank you,

Anton Cheng
anton@amc-color.com

[gordo]

Yes, here: ECKART Effect Pigments - Printing inks

Your normal ink vendor should be able to get this for you through them.

Make sure you have a good credit history - these inks are expensive. :-(

best, gordon p

[Cornishpastythighs]

That may have been 'Mirafoil' by Henkel, its not an ink it is a coating and is only available for Flexo, Gravure and screen printing. Not available for litho. We run it in our Anilox coater unit which is after all a Flexo printing unit using a Cyrel plate and get fanstatic results.

[RickLee]

it may have been printed on the MAN Roland with a foiling unit. It looks like it is a printed foil because it uses a printed plate with "glue" in the first unit to have the foil "stick" to the sheets in the second unit. Its a very cool process.

[rhsack]

What you are looking at is called “MetalFX”
Only a few printers have the patented process.
It is very easy to use and we print it on our sheetfed press.

Is you want more info,
Rick at rsack@schielegroup.com

[gordo]

What you are looking at is called “MetalFX”

MetalFX uses process color overprinting standard luster metallic silver to create a variety of metallic colors. It does not provide a "foil-like" appearance as per the OPs description.

best, gordon p

[Bob Peterson]

There is a non-leafing silver offset ink available in both conventional & UV that will provide this effect. The product is manufactured by Eckart. Here is a link to the product: ECKART Effect Pigments - TOPSTAR® 06

This ink is extremely expensive $150-200 /lb.

[amccolor]

Yes, here: ECKART Effect Pigments - Printing inks

Your normal ink vendor should be able to get this for you through them.

Make sure you have a good credit history - these inks are expensive. :-(

best, gordon p

We have contacted Eckart and they claim to have what we are looking for. They will be sending us out a sample. They actually have 2 inks that they are recommending. They have Topstar 06 Non-leafing silver and also Topstar Brilliant Silver. We haven't received pricing yet, but I have an idea of what to expect.

Thanks all!

[joe.]

well metilliac is a funny subject have you tried an anliox with 250/60 it works very well ad littile aco you can run about 650 to 750 fpm done it

[Scott_H]

SouthPrint

As was mentioned it might be in-line cold foil. If it looks like foil, it probably is.