Hull-based Oriel Printing has become the first certified Color-Logic printer to successfully use its Process Metallic Color System on plastic substrates. While Oriel is a 24-hour UV litho trade printer that gained its original Color-Logic certification more than a year ago, it is worth noting that it has since adapted the process to polypropylene (PP) and clear recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
Oriel Printing provides brand managers and their designers with a colour chart enabling them to produce 250 metallic colours using just five inks. The company produces work on a range of material from carton boards to plastics and substrates as thick as 1000 microns, which are routinely handled. Managing director Richard Simms, commenting on the process, said: "The Color-Logic process on plastic is a low-cost technique that makes products really stand out on the shelf. Oriel has invested a great deal of time to maximising the lustre of the metallic ink on plastic substrates. Ordinary metallics are often dull and flat on plastic, and our technique provides excellent results and provides that extra wow factor."