Anyone have experience mixing bigger silver flakes in with offset varnish or ink?
If you buy silver flakes for screen printing and mix it with clear screen printing varnish/ink and print it you would get a nice silver metallic sparkle for your letters or graphics. But what would happen if you mixed these flakes in with offset varnish and put it on the press?
Would it not make it through the rollers or not print?
Would it not stick to the paper?
Would the flakes wreck your rollers?
Or would it make it to the paper but the metallic layer would be so thin you would not have enough density?
The issue with silver offset ink is that the silver particles are so small you don't get a metallic sparkle. But with bigger flakes you do.
Anyone with experience that can respond to these questions? I am interested why people dont do this and am trying to figure out the many different reasons.
If you buy silver flakes for screen printing and mix it with clear screen printing varnish/ink and print it you would get a nice silver metallic sparkle for your letters or graphics. But what would happen if you mixed these flakes in with offset varnish and put it on the press?
Would it not make it through the rollers or not print?
Would it not stick to the paper?
Would the flakes wreck your rollers?
Or would it make it to the paper but the metallic layer would be so thin you would not have enough density?
The issue with silver offset ink is that the silver particles are so small you don't get a metallic sparkle. But with bigger flakes you do.
Anyone with experience that can respond to these questions? I am interested why people dont do this and am trying to figure out the many different reasons.