King James

For me, what once was the most exciting surface in all of printing has resurfaced. Well, actually, it never really went away. But looking back almost 30 years, I can remember that when a customer specified Kromekote it was a special project. And, yes, there was King James and Mark 1, and we were supposed to call these glass-like papers by the generic name: cast-coated. However, no one did, as every printer I knew used Champion's brand name, Kromekote, as the category nomenclature. Time marches on, and new varieties of paper—both domestic and foreign—have paraded through. Couple that with on-press varnishing techniques, aqueous and

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