“There is no need for laminate, with perfect accuracy to its width detection capacity and enables users to optimise foil use and reduce waste,” Train explains, continuing: “With the DDC-8000, users can produce excellent foiling results, even with intricate details on substrates up to 600gsm opening the door to more highvalue applications.” New Markets Also in this sector is Intec, which offers its ColorFlare range of foiling and laminating equipment and consumables to the market. Terri Winstanley, product and marketing manager, explains that adding this type of kit to your production line-up could allow you to enter new markets by adding all manner of effects to your printed work. “With the ColorFlare range, you can provide foiling, laminating, and holographic effects from one machine, with the added benefit that it will be the same source of supply for both hardware and consumables,” Winstanley explains. “Intec’s range of ColorFlare coloured metallic flaring toner foils and films will add dynamic special effects to your print. The range will enhance both visual and tactile aspects of your printed product, providing the perfect finish for you and your customers. “The benefits of the ColorFlare range include class-leading affordability, some of the most technically advanced foils and laminates available today, ensuring the ◄ Duplo offers the range of Bagel laminators and foilers in the UK, including the Bagel iLam Pro 3DF “Adding these abilities to enhance print with specialist finishing and foiling also gives print companies more scope to capture work from agencies during the tender process.” Train goes on to say that PSPs should look to highlight to both marketeers and designers the creative applications at the finishing stage as possibly the most important step when proposing bids for work. He explains that the effects and extra finishes that foiling and embellishment can achieve need to be actively sold to the marketeers and the designers – to make the most out of each sheet of paper, card, or board. “With print runs decreasing and becoming more targeted and personalised, gone are the days of trying to sell on incremental increases in margins,” Train says, adding: “With these specialist finishing techniques, printers can return to high margin work.” Train leads on from this to highlight some of the areas PSPs can target with this sort of work. He says while many segments of the print industry have been foiling and embossing for years, digital foiling and embellishment has not been taken up quite so much. He offers the example of the bespoke short-run market for book jackets, PPC covers, and greetings cards as areas that are on the rise. “Foiling and special effects on these add a value that end-users are drawn to,” Train says, adding: “We’ve already mentioned luxury print, with the realms of bespoke high-end products, their packaging, and all the printed items that go around these products becoming simpler to achieve. “Seasonal print becomes more about the colours of foil and texture in combination to the imagery. Simply look at the shelves at the supermarkets and you can see the amount of glitter, gold, and shiny reds on display during Christmas. Did we see any- ▼ The ColorFlare CF1200 foiling and laminating machine from Intec allows for high volume finishing thing but green on the shelves on the run up to St Patricks day?” So, what does Duplo have to help? Duplo offers Bagel laminators and foilers in the UK; the MiniLam B3 and iLam offer technologies like digital hot stamping, which resembles foil stamping with metallic foils, holographic foils, flood varnish and spot varnish. Bagel’s 3DF module that can be added to its laminator range is a silicon roller that allows specifically designed elastic foil to be laid over Duplo’s DuSense spot UV embellishment without defects. “Available in both B2 and B3 sizes and a range of different categories from entrylevel to high production machines,” Train says, adding: “This solution is perfect for near-line production to our DDC-810 sensory coater.” Also new from Duplo is the DuSense DDC-8000 B2 sensory coater, which includes in-line foiling to the spot UV. Duplo’s DuSense DDC-8000 B2 sensory coater can foil on substrates up to 600gsm 600gsm 68 email: news@printmonthly.co.uk Issue 342 - May / June 2023 MARKET TRENDS / FOILING & EMBOSSING
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