I am running some garment tags that are basically solid black with white reverse type. Client wants matte black with gloss white type I told them varnishing white does not show a lot of gloss.
I did a quick test...ran 2 hits of black with inline flood gloss AQ (inktrain). I then put it back through ane ran a spot matte varnish. There is good gloss/matte contrast on the solid black but not much on the white type areas.
Any hints on making the white pop a bit?
I guess I could have run 2 actual varnishes instead of the spot matte over the flood aq but I thought I might get more gloss out of the AQ. When I run the spot matte varnish I guess I could also run a spot gloss plate as well to see if this helps (so basically spot gloss varnish over the gloss AQ...or just forget about the gloss AQ altogether). Unfortunately I pulled the job off the press already so can't test.
If I ran a spot gloss do you think adding opaque white would help or maybe a touch of silver to try to give a metallic pearlescent type look? Any thoughts?
I did a quick test...ran 2 hits of black with inline flood gloss AQ (inktrain). I then put it back through ane ran a spot matte varnish. There is good gloss/matte contrast on the solid black but not much on the white type areas.
Any hints on making the white pop a bit?
I guess I could have run 2 actual varnishes instead of the spot matte over the flood aq but I thought I might get more gloss out of the AQ. When I run the spot matte varnish I guess I could also run a spot gloss plate as well to see if this helps (so basically spot gloss varnish over the gloss AQ...or just forget about the gloss AQ altogether). Unfortunately I pulled the job off the press already so can't test.
If I ran a spot gloss do you think adding opaque white would help or maybe a touch of silver to try to give a metallic pearlescent type look? Any thoughts?