I have have made my decision set on what print finishes i want to use for a long time and i have finally got around to experimenting with this. Due to finance i will not be able to get the print production manual commercially printed, however i wanted to produce some print techniques to get an idea of what finish would have been achievable.
My first experimentation was with De bossing this is the one i have been wanting to experiment with for a long time as i feel the finish that is achieved is very luxurious and really has a classy feel to it, this is what would have been used on the front cover of my print production manual. After carrying out my extensive research into print finishes i learnt that this is achieved by using a copper plate that has the design engraved into it, however i again did not have the funds to purchase a copper plate so i decided to experiment with making it out of MDF. I knew that obviously in the long run the quality of the print would deteriorate because of the condition of the plate which would get worse after every print. However i felt this would work perfectly for a few experimentations.
I carried out these Print experiments on a range of different stocks, coated, un coated, textured ect. i did this to again gain a greater understanding of what stocks produce the most effective results, i have learnt from this that the stock that would take the greatest emboss was a thick pulp paper that was un textured and was 300gsm, this is very beneficial for me in later projects.
Below shows the different stocks i have experimented with, as you can see the two stocks to the right where most effective with the white stock being un textured mean allowing the emboss to be slightly more crisp to the black textured stock.
The next experimentation was with screen print, the reason for this was simply to display how aspects of colour would be introduced throughout my editorial, The use of screen print was just to display the use of a spot colour that i obviously could not achieve using the digital printers at college, I love the vibrancy that spot colours achieve and feel this gives the design an extra eye catching finish as well as a real sense of high quality. From my research i have found that using spot colours can be very pricey however, as this is a one of product and would have a very long life span i feel that the use of spot colour would be applicable to this production.
As You can see i have again experimented on a range of different stocks, from crits and asking my peers i selected 3 stock samples that i would use for the leaves of my print production manual i decided it would be beneficial to see how the print looked once applied to these 3 stocks, I found that the textured paper to the left came out with the most effective print and overall was my favourite of the 3, however for me to us this stock it would have to be lower gsm than the one used, the textured paper however would give a very high quality finish and feel to the manual.
The glossy paper that was selected has a beautiful feel however i felt that to much light was reflected of the surface and for that reason i decided against this stock.
The images below are only of my pre press print but i am simply using this to explain that the binding method that would have been used for my design would have been perfect bound the reason for this being that perfect binding has a long life span and would make sure that the print manual could handle a fair amount of wear. The perfect binding method also gives an editorial a real sense of quality when being held by the reader.
Inside the stock section of my Print production manual featured a swatch book style layout_ in thins section where pages that where separated into different stock sections for example coated papers and un coated_ I have then produced a tester that is printed onto each of the stock using digital print techniques. These swatch samples would then be stuck into the book as a constant reference to me on the subject of how different stocks react to cymk printing and also how typographic elements react at different sizes. The tests are shown below_
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