January 2023
Color-Logic Certifies Ecofoil Digital Label Stock for Cut Sheet Printers
30/01/23 08:59 Filed in: Ecofoil Digital | Labels
West Chester, Ohio, USA; January 2023—Color-Logic has announced certification of Ecofoil Digital Label Stock for cut sheet printers, a fully recyclable and FSC certified label stock optimized for HP Indigo, Ricoh, and Xerox digital presses. Discussing the certification, Mark Geeves, Director of Color-Logic Sales and Marketing, said: "Ecofoil Digital Label Stock opens up new markets for cut sheet printers, including labels for craft breweries, cannabis distributors, wineries, and other short run and variable data markets. Labels produced with personalized metallic special effects by Color-Logic on Ecofoil Digital cut sheets are particularly attractive to printers serving charity, wedding, anniversary, and celebration customers."
Geeves continued: "Certification tests performed in the Color-Logic laboratories indicate that Color-Logic licensed printers can confidently offer Ecofoil Digital Label Stock to customers. In the United States, Ecofoil Digital substrates are distributed exclusively by Kelly Spicer. Outside the US, Ecofoil Digital substrates are available from local distributors. Complete details may be found by registering at www.color-logic.com/ecofoildigital"
Mark Kempster, Ecofoil Digital Managing Director also commented: We are very excited about our new Ecofoil Digital label stock hitting markets around the world. With conventional methods of foil embellishment proving either difficult to produce and/or requiring a pre-PET lamination, Ecofoil Digital is truly the only sustainable and commercially viable method to produce foil embellishment labels with both the dry toner and HP Indigo digital print markets."
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Geeves continued: "Certification tests performed in the Color-Logic laboratories indicate that Color-Logic licensed printers can confidently offer Ecofoil Digital Label Stock to customers. In the United States, Ecofoil Digital substrates are distributed exclusively by Kelly Spicer. Outside the US, Ecofoil Digital substrates are available from local distributors. Complete details may be found by registering at www.color-logic.com/ecofoildigital"
Mark Kempster, Ecofoil Digital Managing Director also commented: We are very excited about our new Ecofoil Digital label stock hitting markets around the world. With conventional methods of foil embellishment proving either difficult to produce and/or requiring a pre-PET lamination, Ecofoil Digital is truly the only sustainable and commercially viable method to produce foil embellishment labels with both the dry toner and HP Indigo digital print markets."
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Embellishment Tips and Tricks Now Included in Color-Logic SMART Centre
23/01/23 09:42 Filed in: Embellishments | SMART Centre
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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Color-Logic Certifies Dantex Label Presses
17/01/23 10:39 Filed in: Dantex | Digital Press
West Chester, Ohio, USA; January 2023—Color-Logic has certified Dantex label presses for use in producing labels using the Color-Logic Metallic Color System. Discussing the certification, Mark Geeves, Director of Color-Logic Sales and Marketing, said: "Color-Logic is pleased to certify the Dantex Pico range of label presses for use with Color-Logic. With the certification, Dantex joins the broad array of press and printer manufacturers enabling print providers to confidently offer Color-Logic metallics to their customers. Dantex offers a full range of presses with opaque white inks that make using Color-Logic simple. Noted for their extremely small droplet size, Dantex Pico label presses produce high quality at high speeds. Dantex presses are available through a global network of sales subsidiaries and distributors."
Justin Nowell, Digital Manager at Dantex, commenting on the certification, said: "Dantex is pleased to partner with Color-Logic and offer our customers assurance that their metallic files can be produced predictably and reliably, even from job to job over time. Consistency in label colors is extremely important to Dantex customers, and Color-Logic reliably extends that consistency to complex metallic images and solid colors."
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Justin Nowell, Digital Manager at Dantex, commenting on the certification, said: "Dantex is pleased to partner with Color-Logic and offer our customers assurance that their metallic files can be produced predictably and reliably, even from job to job over time. Consistency in label colors is extremely important to Dantex customers, and Color-Logic reliably extends that consistency to complex metallic images and solid colors."
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Embellishment Tips and Tricks Now Included in Color-Logic SMART Centre
12/01/23 09:44 Filed in: Embellishments | Tips & Tricks
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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Color-Logic Releases Pattern-FX Volume 7
09/01/23 09:56 Filed in: Pattern-FX
West Chester, Ohio, USA; January 2023—Color-Logic--the leader in metallic colors systems and print embellishment--has announced the release of Pattern-FX Volume 7. Commenting on the event, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves said: "Patterns have become a key element of graphic design in recent years. Color-Logic Pattern-FX volumes are illustrator palettes which incorporate the Color-Logic special effects and make pattern usage effortless, predictable, and reproducible. The patterns can be rotated and scaled, and since Color-Logic colors can ge gradated, two or more colors can be used within one pattern. When using the seven Pattern-FX volumes together with the 924 metallic colors in the Color-Logic Design Suite, graphic designers have access to 776,160 predictable and reproducible embellishment patterns with just a few mouse clicks, although with scaling and rotation, the true number of print embellishments is essentially unlimited. In addition, with Color-Logic Gradation-FX, graphic designers can blend metallic colors into other metallic colors for each pattern or blend process colors into metallic colors for use on conventional or digital presses."
“Geeves continued: "At Color-Logic, we believe "All Print Stars With Design." Once graphic designers have Color-Logic tools and understand what is possible with print embellishment, they will increase the use of value added print . Using Color-Logic enables graphic designers to produce all colors and embellishments with just five inks: silver ink or toner with CMYK on paper, or white ink or toner with CMYK on reflective stock. Color-Logic makes print embellishment not only predictable but economical for production."
Color-Logic Pattern-FX utilised on a coffee cup holder:
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“Geeves continued: "At Color-Logic, we believe "All Print Stars With Design." Once graphic designers have Color-Logic tools and understand what is possible with print embellishment, they will increase the use of value added print . Using Color-Logic enables graphic designers to produce all colors and embellishments with just five inks: silver ink or toner with CMYK on paper, or white ink or toner with CMYK on reflective stock. Color-Logic makes print embellishment not only predictable but economical for production."
Color-Logic Pattern-FX utilised on a coffee cup holder:
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Color-Logic Now Fully Compatible with Adobe Creative Cloud 2023
04/01/23 09:26 Filed in: Adobe | Installers
West Chester, Ohio, USA; January 2023—Color-Logic--the leader in metallic colors systems and print embellishment--has announced their entire suite of products is fully compatible with Adobe Creative Cloud 2023. Said Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves: "At Color-Logic, we take particular care to make all our software products compatible with the most current version of Adobe creative tools. The Color-Logic Design Suite for PhotoShop, Illustrator, and InDesign been released and may be found by licensed printers and designers in the SMART Centre area under installers. An optional upgrade expands the color palette to the full 924 metallic colors with embellishments. Color-Logic Touch7 Photo products for ECG (Extended Color Gamut) inks and neon/fluorescent inks are also fully compatible with the current Adobe Creative Cloud."
The Color-Logic Design Suite and the Touch7 Photo products enable both new and experienced graphic designers to add print embellishments into their files in seconds with just a few mouse clicks.
See more at https://www.color-logic.com/products/designsuite/
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The Color-Logic Design Suite and the Touch7 Photo products enable both new and experienced graphic designers to add print embellishments into their files in seconds with just a few mouse clicks.
See more at https://www.color-logic.com/products/designsuite/
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