COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PRINT GLOSS OF METALIZED SHEETS PRINTED WITH SHEET FED OFFSET PRINTING PROCESS AND DRY TONER BASED DIGITAL PRINTING PROCESS

Printing metalized sheets with offset printing process requires it to be primer coated prior to the printing. This is complex, time consuming and incorporates some additional cost. Thus, it has not been known in view of the prior art to utilize digital pri nting methods to create sharp, high quality, complex, multi - color, foil - effect designs foil - covered surfaces at relatively high speed and low cost. it was observed that the sheets printed with Dry toner based Digital printing process have comparatively hi gher gloss in case of non primer coated sheets .