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News Release from: MetalFX Technology | Subject: MetalFX inks
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 February 2008
Workbooks Show Metal Inks On Different
Papers
UPM's new series of workbooks to showcase its Finesse papers features MetalFX Technology, demonstrating its use with a variety of paper surfaces and substance weights.
The issue of the workbooks features automobile images printed with MetalFX inks and finished with various textures and UV varnishes UPM's brand manager for graphic papers, Anke Bockmann, said: "Each printing and paper workbook illustrates a different printing or finishing technique and shows how its special effects work on the five different surfaces of Finesse and two different basis weights
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 26 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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By always using the same motif, we can truly compare the effects on different surfaces and basis weights.
In the workbook, MetalFX inks were used to reproduce a Jaguar car and to bring the sparkle of the vehicle's chrome to life.
Special varnish effects generate tactile experiences illustrating a glossy wooden dashboard and the pure indulgence of leather." MetalFX's vice president for the Americas, Mark Geeves, replied: "The MetalFX techniques illustrated in these workbooks can be duplicated by any licensed MetalFX printer.".
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