My printer and I are having a friendly disagreement over the type of paper to use in a high-end art/photography magazine. He believes we should use a gloss sheet and then give it an aqueous flood coating throughout. The problem is the sheet's brightness is too low for my liking.
I've found another sheet of paper that I like, it's about the same price as the gloss on 25 x 38, and it has a 95 brightness, much nicer. The problem is the printer feels this sheet is more of a matte than a true silk and is worried about if the ink will rub off of the paper.
Of course, we could use a spot varnish to protect the images on the silk sheet, but he told me he needs to make new plates specifically for just that and at a 15-signature magazine, that's going to be cost prohibitive in the range of $10,000+. He's running a Heidelberg XL-105 on 20 micron stochastic. Does anyone have ideas on how we can overcome this problem? He's going to test the sheet later this week for rub-off, but it doesn't sound very promising for me.
Alternatively, I could use a higher end silk, a Diamond silk, but that runs about $35/extra per thousand and I'm buying around 325,000 sheets.
I've found another sheet of paper that I like, it's about the same price as the gloss on 25 x 38, and it has a 95 brightness, much nicer. The problem is the printer feels this sheet is more of a matte than a true silk and is worried about if the ink will rub off of the paper.
Of course, we could use a spot varnish to protect the images on the silk sheet, but he told me he needs to make new plates specifically for just that and at a 15-signature magazine, that's going to be cost prohibitive in the range of $10,000+. He's running a Heidelberg XL-105 on 20 micron stochastic. Does anyone have ideas on how we can overcome this problem? He's going to test the sheet later this week for rub-off, but it doesn't sound very promising for me.
Alternatively, I could use a higher end silk, a Diamond silk, but that runs about $35/extra per thousand and I'm buying around 325,000 sheets.