Finishing - Digital Enhancement

Best Practices: Strategic Special Effects
February 18, 2016 at 5:12 pm

Special effects like foils, metallics and holograms can go a long way toward making a package catch a consumer's eye and trigger the moment of truth.

'Big Foot' Making Big Impact in Labeltronix's Custom Wine Labels
February 9, 2016 at 9:19 am

Labeltronix is the first company in North America to receive the Digicon Series 3 press with the Big Foot Flat Bed module from AB Graphic International. The module uses 50 tons of pressure to lay multiple foil colors and raises embossing to a new level

SCAD Students Compete in Highcon Design Challenge
January 5, 2016 at 10:04 am

Savannah College of Art and Design students competed in Highcon's 3D Paper Product Design Challenge. The goal was to produce an innovative, feasible and applicable product using Highcon's digital cutting and creasing technology.

MGI to Preview Spot UV, 3D Textures and Embossed Foil Solution
September 24, 2015 at 4:19 pm

The JETvarnish 3DW and iFOIL W system from MGI is an integrated, roll-to-roll print embellishment solution ideally suited for the label and flexible packaging marketplace. MGI will be showcasing the system at Labelexpo 2015.

The Leading Edge of Finishing
June 1, 2015 at 6:00 pm

Just off Route 2 along the northern edge of Massachusetts are the past, present, and future of folding carton production. At Boutwell Owens, a folding carton printer and converter in the old New England mill town of Fitchburg, two massive Mitsubishi offset presses and some flatbed steel-rule diecutting machines of assorted vintages do much of the heavy lifting, while an HP Indigo 30000 and a new Highcon Euclid II digital cutting system take on a growing stream of short-run, fast-turn, prototyping and customized work.