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I've been tasked to produce some menus for a regular customer, usually they want everything as cheap as possible but in this case they are getting sponsorship from a supplier and so have a larger than normal budget to play with.
What I'd really like to do is produce a dark coloured background image with a patterned spot varnish for the cover; as these are menus they have to be durable so I was looking at using 300gsm matt coated paper + a gloss spot varnish and matt lamination. So my question is would the effect of the spot varnish work through the lamination or not?
I'm hoping there's some way of making this work within their budget as I've been wanting to play with this effect for ages!
Virgo Nightingale
02-08-2008, 09:06 PM
I've never seen it before, but I'm pretty sure the spot varnish would get lost. Perhaps you can do a tinted spot varnish? Though that would kinda be a waste since a second spot color would probably do the same thing much more simply and cheaply.
CkretAjint
02-08-2008, 09:13 PM
I don't see it being visible to the untrained "everyday persons" eye, thus making it a waste of monies...
WadeVC
02-09-2008, 07:53 AM
Spot Varnish and lamination? The spot varnish will disappear. Although a good print-shop should warn you of this if you were to ask for a quote.
thanks, looks like I'll have to wait for another chance to use a spot varnish.
budafist
02-10-2008, 07:57 AM
I'm pretty sure we can spot UV over laminate. Check with your own printer of course! But I've seen it on matt lam and it looks lovely.
Google "spot uv matt laminate" and you will find some more info on it. UV is more expensive than varnish/overgloss but looks awesome.
Brilliant, thanks buda. Quite a few companies seem to say this is possibleand infact gives great contrast. I really excited to start the design now!
Cheadle
03-04-2008, 03:30 PM
^^ agreed. A spot UV over a matt laminate can look awesome - the varnish sits on top of the lam rather than getting absorbed by the paper stock, so it really shows up.
budafist
03-04-2008, 09:17 PM
Yesterday we got a spot UV on matt lam back (we send this out to be done) and the spot UV could be wiped off the lam. Maybe they forgot to bake it or something.
The job was already delivered to the client before anyone noticed that it could be wiped off! :eek:
Anyone know what the problem would have been?
Just something to check for I guess if you do spot UV - give it a wipe and a scratch to make sure it's really on there.