Synthetic paper

<b> · 12-16-2011, 08:46 PM

Do any of you have any recommendations on a synthetic or water-resistant sheetfed offset stock? I'm working on a recreational boating location map/guide/thingie that will probably spend most of its time in the vehicles pulling the boats rather than the boats themselves, but it still might get wet. It'll be a straight accordion fold of nine 8.5-inch-tall panels out to somewhere around 33 inches. If it makes a tight fold without scoring, that would be ideal.

**Virgo Nightingale** · 12-16-2011, 08:50 PM

There's Yupo. I don't have much experience with it though, so I'm not sure how it handles ink or how it scores/folds.

**garricks** · 12-17-2011, 12:57 AM

We had a job some years ago that was printed on Yupo. As I recall it printed & folded fine, without scoring. It was an accordion-fold business card size, with just text and a logo. Pretty minimal coverage and very few solids.

It holds current statistics on our hospitals, so they went in and out of wallets a LOT, and paper versions were wearing out.

I recall we discontinued it because of the cost. It was cheaper to print more of them on 80# cover and just replace them when they wore out.

PrintDriver · 12-17-2011, 04:01 PM

There's Tyvek.

<b> · 12-17-2011, 10:39 PM

Thanks for the suggestions. I was drawing a blank and for some reason had no synthetic paper samples in my collection. The printers I work with were giving me the "let me get back to you on that next week" response. I was sort of hoping to get this laid out over the weekend and wanted to know the available sheet widths before launching into it.

Ang · 12-17-2011, 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Virgo Nightingale

There's Yupo. I don't have much experience with it though, so I'm not sure how it handles ink or how it scores/folds.

One of the ad's on their main page advertises that their touch paper is certified to run on the Indigo press at my school (RIT)

That stuff looks freaking awesome!

Ooooooo! Aaaaand it's available at Xpedx too!!! Hooray!

Cosmo · 12-19-2011, 12:41 PM

We have printed on both Yupo and Tyvek in the past. We had one customer that used to get a lot of Tyvek labels for lumber in their lumberyard. It does require different ink to be weather-resistant. I remember the ink was expensive and didn't come in many colors. I don't remember the brand but if you're interested I can check. We probably still have a can here somewhere.

As for Xpedx, don't get me started with them....