Embellishments
Color-Logic to Show Latest Print Embellishment and Metallic Color Innovations at DRUPA 2024
07/05/24 10:01
West Chester, Ohio, USA; May 2024 -As the world eagerly anticipates the return of DRUPA after an eight-year hiatus, Color-Logic, the global leader in print embellishment and metallic color systems, is set to captivate attendees with groundbreaking advancements. Partnering with Ricoh, Color-Logic will command attention on the Ricoh Stand in Hall 8A, where the cutting-edge Color-Logic software will be demonstrated on the new Ricoh Pro 7500 Digital press with specialty inks. Since the last DRUPA, the Color-Logic Process Metallic Color System has been continuously refined to meet the evolving demands of printers, graphic designers, and brands seeking to differentiate themselves in the market while achieving predictable results, reducing waste, and reducing time to market.
Visitors to DRUPA 2024 can expect to witness significant enhancements from Color-Logic, including:
1. Expanded Metallic Colors Library: Color-Logic has expanded its metallic colors library from 250 to an impressive 924 shades. With just silver toner and paper, or with white toner and a silver-based metallic stock, printers now have access to a vast array of options, including 30 new gold colors. In total, the Color-Logic system offers 50 gold and bronze metallic shades in a single pass.
2. More Pattern-FX Volumes: Pattern-FX (introduced at DRUPA 2016), now boasts seven volumes, each containing 20 seamless patterns with six effects. Pattern-FX is compatible with all 924 Color-Logic metallic colors, offering designers an astounding 776,160 possible embellishments within Adobe Illustrator.
3. Debut of Text-FX: Making its European debut at DRUPA 2024, Text-FX includes 20 fully editable text styles that seamlessly integrate with Pattern-FX and Color-Logic color palettes, providing designers unparalleled creative flexibility.
4. FX-Viewer: Enabling designers and printers to preview Color-Logic effects before production, FX-Viewer eliminates guesswork and minimizes costly press time and material wastage by eliminating trial-and-error runs.
5. S.M.A.R.T. Centre: The Color-Logic comprehensive resource hub--the S.M.A.R.T. Centre--equips printers and graphic designers with the tools and knowledge needed to seamlessly implement embellishments. From software solutions to training resources, and with marketing tools and an extensive library of tips and tricks videos, the Color-Logic S.M.A.R.T. Centre ensures a smooth transition to enhanced print embellishment. Additionally, licensed Color-Logic printers receive more than 125 press-ready marketing files encompassing more than 300 SKUs to kickstart their marketing initiatives.
"At DRUPA 2024, Color-Logic is proud to showcase our latest innovations in print embellishment and metallic color systems, empowering printers and designers to unleash their creativity and deliver exceptional results," said Mark Geeves, Director of Color-Logic Sales and Marketing. DRUPA 2024 attendees are encouraged to visit the Ricoh Stand to experience Color-Logic's revolutionary solutions firsthand."
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Visitors to DRUPA 2024 can expect to witness significant enhancements from Color-Logic, including:
1. Expanded Metallic Colors Library: Color-Logic has expanded its metallic colors library from 250 to an impressive 924 shades. With just silver toner and paper, or with white toner and a silver-based metallic stock, printers now have access to a vast array of options, including 30 new gold colors. In total, the Color-Logic system offers 50 gold and bronze metallic shades in a single pass.
2. More Pattern-FX Volumes: Pattern-FX (introduced at DRUPA 2016), now boasts seven volumes, each containing 20 seamless patterns with six effects. Pattern-FX is compatible with all 924 Color-Logic metallic colors, offering designers an astounding 776,160 possible embellishments within Adobe Illustrator.
3. Debut of Text-FX: Making its European debut at DRUPA 2024, Text-FX includes 20 fully editable text styles that seamlessly integrate with Pattern-FX and Color-Logic color palettes, providing designers unparalleled creative flexibility.
4. FX-Viewer: Enabling designers and printers to preview Color-Logic effects before production, FX-Viewer eliminates guesswork and minimizes costly press time and material wastage by eliminating trial-and-error runs.
5. S.M.A.R.T. Centre: The Color-Logic comprehensive resource hub--the S.M.A.R.T. Centre--equips printers and graphic designers with the tools and knowledge needed to seamlessly implement embellishments. From software solutions to training resources, and with marketing tools and an extensive library of tips and tricks videos, the Color-Logic S.M.A.R.T. Centre ensures a smooth transition to enhanced print embellishment. Additionally, licensed Color-Logic printers receive more than 125 press-ready marketing files encompassing more than 300 SKUs to kickstart their marketing initiatives.
"At DRUPA 2024, Color-Logic is proud to showcase our latest innovations in print embellishment and metallic color systems, empowering printers and designers to unleash their creativity and deliver exceptional results," said Mark Geeves, Director of Color-Logic Sales and Marketing. DRUPA 2024 attendees are encouraged to visit the Ricoh Stand to experience Color-Logic's revolutionary solutions firsthand."
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Color-Logic Focuses on Embellishments Worldwide
22/04/24 10:26
West Chester, Ohio, USA; April 2024 -To help satisfy the worldwide interest in embellishments and metallic printing, the entire Color-Logic website has been designed to utilize Google Translate, thus enabling licensed Color-Logic printers, dealers, and OEM partners to quickly review how print embellishments are produced, and to formulate their own strategies for successful print embellishment implementation.
Commenting on this new service to markets around the world, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves said: "Two reasons why Color-Logic has become the preferred source of metallic printing and embellishments in more than 70 countries worldwide are the continued support of our software in non-English speaking countries, and our extensive use of training videos. The Color-Logic website is very visual and when viewed with website translation, it provides a good foundation to printers, agencies, and graphic designers, clearly demonstrating what is possible with print embellishment. Since Adobe Creative Cloud works the same in any language, the Color-Logic demonstration videos can be used reliably anywhere. Because we show Color-Logic tools creating the effects, the necessary steps to successful print embellishment can be readily interpreted by anyone familiar with Adobe design software. We constantly provide design tips, marketing templates, and demonstration files to our licensees and their key support personnel, making it easier to sell and demonstrate our embellishments."
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Commenting on this new service to markets around the world, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves said: "Two reasons why Color-Logic has become the preferred source of metallic printing and embellishments in more than 70 countries worldwide are the continued support of our software in non-English speaking countries, and our extensive use of training videos. The Color-Logic website is very visual and when viewed with website translation, it provides a good foundation to printers, agencies, and graphic designers, clearly demonstrating what is possible with print embellishment. Since Adobe Creative Cloud works the same in any language, the Color-Logic demonstration videos can be used reliably anywhere. Because we show Color-Logic tools creating the effects, the necessary steps to successful print embellishment can be readily interpreted by anyone familiar with Adobe design software. We constantly provide design tips, marketing templates, and demonstration files to our licensees and their key support personnel, making it easier to sell and demonstrate our embellishments."
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Embellishment Tips and Tricks Now Included in Color-Logic SMART Centre
23/01/23 09:42
West Chester, Ohio, USA; January 2023—The Color-Logic SMART Centre--available to licensed Color-Logic printers and their graphic designers--now includes extensive videos with answers to embellishment questions posed by Color-Logic users. Most of these questions involve how to use Color-Logic in conjunction with third-party applications or within Adobe Creative Cloud. Commenting on the Color-Logic Tips and Tricks feature, Richard Ainge, Color-Logic Chief Technical Officer, said: "The Color-Logic Tips and Tricks section offers graphic designers solutions to specific embellishment issues that have plagued Color-Logic users. Each video details how to get the best out of Color-Logic designs and what to avoid when preparing files. Some videos focus on creating embellishments within Color-Logic, while others detail how to modify clients' designs for maximum embellishment effect."
Ainge continued: "Applications and topics currently available include: How to Use Color-Logic Image-FX to Enhance File Security; Creating Metallic Variable Data Printing within Adobe InDesign and Illustrator; Applying Gradients to Color-Logic Pattern-FX files; Combining Color-Logic with HP Mosaic; and Embellishment Differences between Digital and Conventional Printing. Regrettably, many graphic design curricula do not emphasize embellishment training, so Color-Logic is filling this void. The Color-Logic team of dedicated professionals consists of skilled prepress and graphic design professionals, all in their second decade in the field of metallic color separations. No other company offers the depth of metallic color expertise and innovation present in Color-Logic."
Example Video from the Tips & Tricks Section of SMART Centre:
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Ainge continued: "Applications and topics currently available include: How to Use Color-Logic Image-FX to Enhance File Security; Creating Metallic Variable Data Printing within Adobe InDesign and Illustrator; Applying Gradients to Color-Logic Pattern-FX files; Combining Color-Logic with HP Mosaic; and Embellishment Differences between Digital and Conventional Printing. Regrettably, many graphic design curricula do not emphasize embellishment training, so Color-Logic is filling this void. The Color-Logic team of dedicated professionals consists of skilled prepress and graphic design professionals, all in their second decade in the field of metallic color separations. No other company offers the depth of metallic color expertise and innovation present in Color-Logic."
Example Video from the Tips & Tricks Section of SMART Centre:
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Embellishment Tips and Tricks Now Included in Color-Logic SMART Centre
12/01/23 09:44
West Chester, Ohio, USA; January 2023—The Color-Logic SMART Centre--available to licensed Color-Logic printers and their graphic designers--now includes extensive videos with answers to embellishment questions posed by Color-Logic users. Most of these questions involve how to use Color-Logic in conjunction with third-party applications or within Adobe Creative Cloud. Commenting on the Color-Logic Tips and Tricks feature, Richard Ainge, Color-Logic Chief Technical Officer, said: "The Color-Logic Tips and Tricks section offers graphic designers solutions to specific embellishment issues that have plagued Color-Logic users. Each video details how to get the best out of Color-Logic designs and what to avoid when preparing files. Some videos focus on creating embellishments within Color-Logic, while others detail how to modify clients' designs for maximum embellishment effect."
Ainge continued: "Applications and topics currently available include: How to Use Color-Logic Image-FX to Enhance File Security; Creating Metallic Variable Data Printing within Adobe InDesign and Illustrator; Applying Gradients to Color-Logic Pattern-FX files; Combining Color-Logic with HP Mosaic; and Embellishment Differences between Digital and Conventional Printing. Regrettably, many graphic design curricula do not emphasize embellishment training, so Color-Logic is filling this void. The Color-Logic team of dedicated professionals consists of skilled prepress and graphic design professionals, all in their second decade in the field of metallic color separations. No other company offers the depth of metallic color expertise and innovation present in Color-Logic."
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Ainge continued: "Applications and topics currently available include: How to Use Color-Logic Image-FX to Enhance File Security; Creating Metallic Variable Data Printing within Adobe InDesign and Illustrator; Applying Gradients to Color-Logic Pattern-FX files; Combining Color-Logic with HP Mosaic; and Embellishment Differences between Digital and Conventional Printing. Regrettably, many graphic design curricula do not emphasize embellishment training, so Color-Logic is filling this void. The Color-Logic team of dedicated professionals consists of skilled prepress and graphic design professionals, all in their second decade in the field of metallic color separations. No other company offers the depth of metallic color expertise and innovation present in Color-Logic."
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New Color-Logic Website Feature Compares Printed Designs With and Without Metallic Embellishments
10/05/21 11:06
West Chester, Ohio, USA; May 2021— A new section of the Color-Logic website uses several images and applications to illustrate the results of printing both with and without Color-Logic metallic embellishments. The feature--at https://www.color-logic.com/beforeandafter--shows how an image changes when Color-Logic metallic embellishments are added. These effects may be attained using virtually any popular printing process.
Discussing the new feature, Mark Geeves, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing, said: "The sample files demonstrate the value of print embellishments created with just one additional color on press. On conventional substrate, Color-Logic works with silver ink or toner and CMYK inks or toners. On metallic substrate, the Color-Logic process requires white ink or toner and CMYK inks or toners. The best way to visualize how Color-Logic affects design is to see the metallic image alongside its CMYK equivalent."
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Discussing the new feature, Mark Geeves, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing, said: "The sample files demonstrate the value of print embellishments created with just one additional color on press. On conventional substrate, Color-Logic works with silver ink or toner and CMYK inks or toners. On metallic substrate, the Color-Logic process requires white ink or toner and CMYK inks or toners. The best way to visualize how Color-Logic affects design is to see the metallic image alongside its CMYK equivalent."
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