Consumables-Paper - Non-Paper Substrates

GPA Specialty Substrate Solutions will show its Ultra Digital Heat Transfer Paper in action and receive a free t-shirt. The company will also unveil its new Digital Product Catalog, which features a wide selection of substrates that offer cross-platform compatibility for performance in a variety of digital production environments.

Designers trying to communicate with printers are like cats trying to talk to dogs. They both communicate in different languages and with different perspectives. Talk to us creative folks in our own language. Learn how to speak “design” and, in turn, we will be happy to learn a few terms of print, and put our creative trust into your capable hands.

Plenty of things were around before paper to write on, from clay tablets to slabs of marble to rock walls and pieces of bone, but it was only when plants and such started to be turned to pulp or layered into new flat materials that we really get into what we consider “paper.”

Woody Harrelson has also made a name for himself as a staunch defender of the environment, particularly when it comes to North American forests. Having confined his activities to political activism in the past, he has now taken a huge step beyond protest, toward redirecting our ravenous appetite for paper products away from the forests and onto a much less extractive source: agricultural waste.

How important is this? According to Canopy, undisturbed forests absorb nearly one-fifth of the CO2 released by burning fuels. When we cut down trees, not only do we reduce the size of one of the world’s last

Mohawk Fine Papers is embracing the technology often blamed for reducing demand for paper. Mohawk is buying smaller companies and making other investments to tailor new products to digital printing.

In dollar terms: Mohawk paper sells at an average of $2,500 a ton. The company can charge four times as much for the same amount of a digital-ready material (synthetics such as vinyl or polyester, which Mohawk coats, enabling its customers to print on it).

Over the last few years, we’ve seen our share of wood veneer business cards, but the veneer and printing industries have evolved. But let’s back up for a second and look at the amazing way these substrates are created. And believe me, this is worth a sales call to a potential customer all by itself.

We at PaperSpecs would happily pay the toll to cross this bridge. The event invitation is an amazing blend of design and materials, right from the covers on. Two sheets of actual wood veneer have been printed and tipped onto the first and last panel of an accordion fold.

A well-constructed pocket folder that is stylish and useful speaks volumes about the quality of this purveyor of western wear and its brand. Worth noting are the gussets and bleeds, and the tailoring of a stout offset wrapped tab closure also suggest a quality product. This effect was accomplished by designing extra width into the tab, which was folded over and glued for a double-thick sturdiness.

FiberMark CEO Anthony P.D. MacLaurin can strip down his company’s corporate strategy to one simple statement.  “Replace plastic,” he says. That means getting manufacturers that use plastic in book covers, file folders, packaging for consumer goods from cognac and Godiva chocolates to board games to use materials made with cellulose.

FiberCard replaces the plastic used in gift cards and hotel-room key cards with a dense, glossy paper that not only accepts the printing of graphics and photos, but takes the magnetic strip and scratch-off space where the PIN number is hidden.

FiberTag, is designed to replace those plastic tags

Most of you probably know all of this, but there may be a thing or two that you don’t know. Or maybe you just need to be reminded.
 
10. We usually like to print color on coated paper. For most applications, coated paper is best for color, but some excellent work can be done on uncoated papers, especially text and cover or opaque grades.