FINISHING OPTIONS – TUBES
Elegant haptics for discriminating tube content
Printing
High-resolution, photo-realistic quality in ‘digital off-set’ printing. This is not to be confused with inkjet printing, which definitively cannot achieve the same resolution. The digital off-set print is an ultra-thin layer, making it virtually negligible in the subsequent recycling process of the tube.
Surface finishing
Laminating
Film laminating protects the printed image (from scratches, rubbed off ink, etc.) and prevents the contamination with ink or varnish of the inside of the tube that is exposed to your product. This prevents contamination of your high-quality product with wet/unhardened paint or varnish particles.
Laminating options at a glance:
- Glossy film lamination, 24 microns: clear, luminous effects
- Matt film lamination, 27 microns: soft haptic
- Softtouch film lamination, 35 microns: velvety soft haptic
- Anti-scratch film lamination, 30 microns: in conjunction with silver PBL
Varnisch / spot
Spot varnishing, using custom printing plates, can be used to emphasize special design features
Hot-foil embossing
Hot-foil embossing, a particularly high-quality finishing option, can also be applied with custom embossing plates.
Added Value ath the POS
Digital printing is characterised by an efficient computer-to-print process, which does not require printing plates. This has several advantages:
- Economic for very small batch print runs
- No costs for printing plates
- Fast and flexible sample prints on original material
- Fast and flexible implementation of design changes
A unique feature of our printing process is that it enables you to highly personalize your product or even present it as one-of-a-kind at the POS.
Personalisation/Individualisation
Artwork is compiled according to the specifications in a predefined data source. Options for personalisation/individualisation include, labels, logos or a name, and can be combined with standard design elements.
Unique “one-of-a kind” packaging
The data for the individual print images for one-of-a-kind packaging come from a seed file. The software detects the individual sequences of the printed image, interchanges them, scales and combines them with static elements (e.g. a logo). The resulting design of each tube is unique. Up to 1,000,000 unique tubes can be created with one seed file.
Ask our packaging specialists for advice.
