Old Japanese post card

[Apphoard]

My boss took a job he shouldn't have. It's for one poster on a 100# offset cvr that is like a blood red. We are trying to duplicate a postcard the customer got in Japan like sixty or so years ago. It is a very nice piece. It has a bunch of gold on it that doesn't really look like ink to me almost like paint. Maybe it is screen printing? The gold is very gold like a real gold. I do not know how I am going to get a gold that bright on a red offset stock. I know I am going to have to put a bunch of opaque white down first. I know there is real metallic ink and imitation. Of course he doesn't want to get the real metallic. But on this PC they laid down the gold 1st then printed everything else on top. It is definetly probably one of the nicest looking postcards i have ever seen. I will try to remember to take a pic of the PC and post it up here. I think I could get close to the thing with enough time and with the right materials. But they are not even trying to give me any paper for the job let alone the right ink! The wonderfull world of printing I love it !

 

[Sherbert]

Sounds like gold foiling?

 

[dabob]

I remember a process that the wine industry used to do but haven't seen it lately . . . called Bronzing - from a google search -

Bronzing.
A process for obtaining a metallic finish on printed matter by printing first with adhesive ink,
then dusting bronzing powder on by hand or with a bronzing machine. Bronzing gives a better result than
printing with metallic ink

I don't know of anybody that does it . . . the last shop that I saw it at closed years ago and as I recall it was an environmental issue with powder floating all over the place - I do remember that the California environmental powers that be did not like it

 

[Apphoard]

Here it is I didn't want to take it out of the plastic

Edit: pic wouldn't work from iphone. I wonder if its cause I am a junior member or something?

 

[Apphoard]

I think it is a ink or paint. Maybe it is Bronzing. Because I believe I can see texture of the paper under the gold. I think if it was foil you wouldnt see much at all. Tonight or tomorrow I will try and convert the pic I took on my phone with my PC. It isn't a very good one because I left it in the plastic.
I guess I could add yellow to 871 to make it brighter. What do you all think? I was thinking of maybe a florecent yellow but I am not sure if that would be better than just yellow.

 

[PrepressDan]

still don't see an attachment

 

[Apphoard]

Ok here it is I had to resize it