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LCI Paper is now carrying four new colors of metallic specialty paper by Aspire Petallics:
Wine Cup, Spearmint, Snow Willow, and Black Ore. Now, what’s nice about these colors
is that they have improved ink jet printer compatibility. Now, in general, metallic paper
is recommended for laser printers because the wet ink of an ink jet printer has trouble
adhering to the metallic surface. This can result in smudging or bleeding ink, and longer
drying time in general. So let me show you what I mean with this Silver Ore Petallics
card. Now this is one of the original Petallics colors, not one of the four new ones that
I just mentioned, and it is recommended for laser printing. So you can see when I get
in close, because this was printed on an ink jet – an Epson R1900 ink jet, the wet ink
really just didn’t adhere well at all. I mean, it’s completely spread out; there’s
a little bit of smudging present in the center, just not a nice look. And, in comparison,
this is one of the new colors – Spearmint – printed on the same printer, the Epson
R1900, and there’s no bleeding whatsoever. There’s nice sharp, crisp, saturated text,
no smudging, just really nice, and the two in comparison are just totally different.
Now I want to show you an example of the same cards printed with a different ink jet printer
– a Canon Pixma iX7000. I just want to show you that with different printers, you’re
going to get different results. So here is the older Silver Ore color; again, not recommended
for ink jets like I told you. You can see when you get in close, there’s a little
bit of smudging; it’s not very sharp, not very saturated, and the ink, the text just
sort of dragged across the line there. And in comparison, this is the new Spearmint color
which has improved ink jet compatibility, and when you get in close on this one, it
is not as saturated as the results on the Epson, but it is sharper; there’s no bleeding
or smudging. So in comparison: Epson, darker, and this is the Canon, which is slightly less
saturated, but they are both sharp. And just to show you one more example of that, we have
some text weight envelopes. This is the Canon – again, slightly less sharp, and the Epson.
In my printing tests, I found that the four new Petallics do indeed have improved ink
jet compatibility. Now I do want to emphasize that just as I got two different results from
two different printers on the same paper, so will our customers. Results vary with the
type of printer you have, the type of ink it uses, etc. So it’s very important to
test, and then you can know for sure whether the results your printer yields are acceptable
for you. If you have any questions about printing on our new Petallics paper, give us a call
or email, post a comment, we’d love to hear from you.