Printing Knowledge Center

Blind Embossing is a creative finishing technique that presses images or text into a paper substrate, without the use of any ink, metallic foil, or spot clear coat as an enhancement.

Saddle Stitching is one of the most widely used binding methods. Though simple and inexpensive, it adds a very professional appearance and function to printed books.

Perfect Binding is a popular bookbinding method for creating softcover books. Perfect Bound books have a very impressive appearance yet are quite economical.

Printing text or graphics as a Reverse is a creative design technique where the background color is printed but the actual text or graphic is left unprinted.

If you have ever wondered why the Black ink color is represented by the letter "K" in the CMYK acronym, this article will help shed some light on that for you. 

A Flood Coat refers to any coating - such as a varnish, aqueous or UV coating, ink, adhesive solution, etc. - that is applied over an entire surface of a paper sheet, cardstock, label stock or other substrate.