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What are the technical benefits of using MetalFX®? |
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By enabling metallic colours to be accurately measured and matched, MetalFX® ensures that the same result can be achieved time after time. MetalFX® therefore eliminates the problem of inconsistency traditionally associated with the high volume printing of metallics. - As well as offering invaluable precision and control, MetalFX®’s impressive colour range enables bespoke metallic colours to be created, providing a unique and innovative solution for all design and print requirements. - Economies of scale mean that MetalFX® is very cost effective. One MFX® ink instead of multiple spot metallic colours saves you money, whilst offering your customers to freedom to use as many metallic colours as they like. - There is no need to invest in spot metallic inks for one-off jobs. The hundreds of metallic colours available from one MFX® tin means that you are always prepared for whatever job is just around the corner. - The same MFX® ink can be used for all metallic jobs, meaning that no ink need go to waste. - The MFX® base ink has an increased tack level. This gives better trapping performance, minimising rub-off. - The overprinted CMYK acts as a sealer to the silver MFX® base beneath. This reduces the need for purchasing a sealer, saving you money. - A less aggresive sealer can be used that does not decrease the lustre of the metallic. - MetalFX® saves you time. MFX® colours take less time to cure than traditional spot metallics, and the outstanding results mean that there is no need for a double hit. This leaves you time to increase your workload and your income. - Unlike spot polymetallic blends, which are difficult to measure, MetalFX® can be accurately calculated and ICC profiled. So, provided your press is calibrated and uses standard industry densities, colour will match every time. Gretag Macbeth - MetalFX® can be precisely proofed in one run using the Kodak First Check desktop proofer and Kodak Approval B2 proofing devices to create all metallic colours in the MetalFX® range. Notably, this proofing system is unable to print all but gold and silver spot metallic colours from other metallic colour libraries. So now metallics can be achieved from proof to press - and accurately controlled in a cost effective manner. - The MetalFX® base as a stand-alone colour is cleaner. It has a purer lustre and better performance than it’s rivals. “Wolstenholme International has worked closely with MetalFX® to formulate a very clean and white shade silver ink that brings the very best of the MetalFX® colour library in terms of clean and bright metallics.” (Harry Bowyer, Business Development Director (Offset Inks), Wolstenholme International) - MetalFX® eradicates the need for mixing metallic ink. This saves you the cost of measuring scales and the time taken quantifying inks. - With MetalFX®, less silver ink needed in total as the densities required to achieve the colours are lower than that needed to match existing polymetallic blended spot colours. - MetalFX® offers a more cost effective alternative to foil laminated substrates often used in packaging, labels and gift wrap markets. - MetalFX® can be used on any substrate such as paper, plastic, metal and boards, meaning that you can win the business of clients with a wide variety of needs. - The MetalFX® swatch books are printed lithographically using industry standard presses to Eurostandard densities - unlike competitors that use dry offset processes. This means that swatch matching is substantially more accurate, and you can offer your customers a more precise and striking product – without the current manufacturing problems. - By producing only one ink, but offering 615 metallics, MetalFX® is a more environmentally friendly way for you to use metallic colours. Economies of scale mean we produce less ink overall, and it is produced it all at once. Other metallic ink providers produce hundreds of spot colours and repeat the ink-making process separately for each one. This is both costly for the printer and damaging to the environment – wasting natural and diminishing resources. |
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