To announce the release of Bondi Whiteback, our newest packaging grade, we released two A5 postcards. One was printed offset and the other digital on a HP Indigo 7500. The image is a cracker and happens to be a custom illustration of a Doggett’s NSW staff member!
Bondi is an economical alternative and sits between our Simcote and Barry Bleach boards regarding price. A high white folding bleach board, it’s FSC certified, has a clay coating on one side and a lick coating on the other (this means the coating is not not as heavy on the back). It’s also food contact approved to ISEGA standards (the European version of FDA), which is excellent to know if you’re going wrap it around some chocolate. If you are, best send some to us.
Bondi Whiteback is ideal for cosmetic packaging, point of sale, postcards/greeting cards. Since releasing it, we’ve also seen it used for confectionery packets and pharmaceutical products.
Call John Alipan (National) 0434 692 446 or Chris Churchward (NSW) 0488 440 131 if you want to know more about any of our packaging stocks.
To celebrate the 2014 FIFA World Cup™, The Bureau in Melbourne created a series of illustrated posters complete with match details and recipe instructions so you can kick off your own ‘cocktail cup’ at home. Genius! It’s a special time of year, as the studio puts it: “We all suddenly become experts on match tactics and whether Tim Cahill is better in the air or with his feet!”
Inspired by host city, Brazil (the home of Samba, sandy beaches and sunshine), these one-of-a-kind designs are printed CMYK on an HP Indigo using Sovereign Offset 160gsm. The Bureau’s Creative Director, Jarrod Bransden, explains: “If you’re looking for a little consistency after an up and down Spanish campaign, you can’t go past the humble Sangria. Match the ingredients to the illustrations, follow the recipe and hold your glasses high to celebrate a brave Australian performance at the 2014 World Cup. If we can’t beat them, at least drink like them.” Ha!
So if you feel like a little opponent-inspired tipple from Chile, The Netherlands or Spain, go tohenryandson.com and purchase your very own poster. A perfect wall adornment whether you’re drowning your sorrows or just feel like some general merriment.
Roll out the toner splattered carpet, Doggett Digital has arrived! Thanks to the wonderful Seesaw in Victoria and their delightful dogs Klaus and Louie, we have this unique visual (that’s the pooches paw prints you can see) for our new sub-brand, Doggett Digital. It was about time we unified our digital product offering under one recognisable banner. We have a steadily growing range of products we stock suitable for the HP Indigo and Dry Toner machines including paper, boards, labels, vinyls and synthetics.
Here’s what we’ve rolled out with the new branding:
Swatch kit (for digital printers).
Price book (for digital printers).
Printing guides ie one for our Dry Toner products and one for our HP Indigo certified ones.
Wrapping paper
Eye candy samples (a range of colours and awesome print techniques
We have some exciting new colours and ranges like the Pop’Set from Arjowiggins Creative Papers (UK) in Lime Tonic, Black and Cosmo Pink in 320gsm and the new Mohawk Loop Digital i-Tone Antique Vellum in Straw and Urban Gray. These new products add colour to what is normally a predominantly white range of papers. Coming soon is Tacky for Dry Toner, following on from the Tacky for Indigo range released at the beginning of the year. And look out for our Doggett Digital branded trucks, on a street near you soon.
The pattern Seesaw created is meant to replicate a toner splatter on paper and the footprints of a dog (two in this case) that have walked right through the centre of the mess. We love it.
Need a digital expert? Call or email Jon Roberts, Business Development Manager – Digital and he’d be happy to assist. Phone: 0409 411 546 or jroberts@kwdoggett.com.au
Tacky Indigo is our new digital range of vinyl adhesives made specifically for printing on the HP Indigo (coming soon is Tacky Dry which is a digital polyester range suitable for dry toner printing). We’re talking short runs, high quality printing with variable data options. Tear and weather resistant, Tacky Indigo is ideal for indoor and outdoor advertising. Things like point of sale signs, wall decals, car livery, shop decorations. The promo features all six specs in the range that play on the word ‘tacky’.
A collaboration with the cheeky and talented Andy Ashton from WorkArtLife has added the touch of fun and humour we often like to see in our promos. Not that there’s anything wrong with super charged cars, 80s perms or crocheted toilet roll holders! But they are pretty tacky. Ha!
Our range includes White Permanent, Clear Removable, White Removable, White Wall Graphics, White Electrostatic, Clear Electrostatic. The promo includes an image or text on all six specs in the range. The products are eco-friendly and made with state-of-the-art ‘green’ water-based adhesives. They still provide superior pressure sensitive control/product quality while minimising environmental impact.
In a nutshell:
Our lady with the 80s perm is on the white permanent, great for projects that require a permanent fix like car bumper stickers.
The supercharged car is on the clear removable and the writing appears on the white removable product. They both have a low-tack adhesive, good for interior and exterior applications. No solvents are needed for fixing or removal.
The toilet roll holder is on our white wall graphics product. It’s an easy to fix and remove interior decal solution. The perfect white surface for quality display on painted walls, most wall papers and wood panelling.
Dog dressed up in pig costume is on the white electrostatic and the disguise ie the glasses and moustache the clear electrostatic. These are self-clinging vinyls which require no adhesive, are easily removed and apply quickly to most smooth polished surfaces.
We have a challenge! If you’re on Instagram we’re inviting you to take a pic behind the disguise and post it! There is a pair of glasses and moustache printed on the Electrostatic Clear spec. So apply it to your nearest window and snap away. Use the #tackybydoggettdigital and @kwdoggett in your post
If you have any specific questions about Tacky Indigo, you can call Jon Roberts on 0409 411 546.
Sounds like it could be the model of a plane but alas it is not. It’s the newest digital press in our market. The HP Indigo 10000 outputs B2 size printing and true offset quality using a plate to blanket to paper transfer of ink. Offering short run large format jobs or bigger run digital jobs, competitive pricing, speed to market, greater variable data options and last but not least, print quality that is good enough to eat!
The good news is this – you have choices, choices, choices. Between offset, Indigo, dry toner and wide format inkjet machines, there’s a press for every job, depending on your print run. At the moment, HP is the only brand that has a B2 size press on shore but there are others on the way. Also in the B2 digital club are the Truepress Jet SX (inkjet), Fujifilm makes the Jet Press 720 (inkjet), there’s a Komori B2, the Ryobi 750 which uses LED imaging and liquid toner technology and Konica Minola KM-1 (dry toner).
Key features
The HP Indigo 10000 is run with Electroink technology (liquid based not toner based).
Up to seven ink stations offering the extended colour gamut, including HP Indigo Electroink White and other special effect inks? Contact Marcus Robinson at Currie Group for more info on this.
4, 6 or 7 process colours for vivid priting and accurate on-press Pantone emulations. The correct colour combination can be created to replicate a company’s corporate colours. Artwork can then be set-up properly with the correct breakdowns to ensure great and consistent results.
Maximum sheet size – 510 x 720mm.
Maximum image size – 490 x 695mm.
Environmentally speaking the press incorporates new energy efficient techniques.
Oversized A2 posters (short or medium runs). Short print runs can be as low as 10 or as high as 1000.
Landscape A4 brochures and 6 page A4 brochures (short and medium runs).
Presentation folders (personalised, short or medium runs).
Unique packaging up to A2+ flat size (personalised, short or medium runs).
Perfect bound annual reports and product catalogues (short or medium runs).
Personalised direct mail with variable data printing.
Short run point of sale posters.
Gang printing (executed more economically).
Cost saving benefits
You can fit more artwork up on the sheet in general so the job becomes more economical.
Let’s say you you’re printing 900 posters with six or seven kinds in the mix, there’s no plate set-up like you need in offset printing.
Reducing posters from A1 to A2 size saves money without compromising too much size wise.
Producing an A3 saddle stitched book by taking an A2 size print and folding it down. This idea has been used a lot for self-promotional work to produce a memorable piece for a good price.
You can condense an A4 sales brochure to 6pp from 8pp which reduces printing costs if the quantity you’re producing is approximately 2000 copies. If it’s more than that, there is no benefit by condensing the page numbers.
With point of sale items like shelf wobblers, you can produce much larger quantities as you can get more up on the sheet, depending of course on the size of the artwork. The machine can produce a big run eg 20000+ units for a much more cost effective price than possible in the past.
Variable data
You can use 20+ variable data fields for one job, making something like a direct mail piece even more personalised.
A retail store that has over 500 shops Australia wide A2 posters using variable data. Each store had its own VIP event so details like date, time etc were different for each and all were printed in the same run.
The stand-out of this press is the print quality which is not compromised with the larger sheet size. We’ve only just started to see what this machine is capable of. Looks like the future for digital printing just got to be a whole lot tastier!
Oh and if you want to speak to a guru on digital printing, we have one. Contact Jon Roberts via email jroberts@kwdoggett.com.au
A big thanks to Goran Trakilovic from Courtney Colour to pull this article together, as well as running out some test sheets for us. Also thanks to Currie Group (the local supplier of the press) for their assistance. FYI, Bambra Press (VIC) also own a HP Indigo 10000 press.
Did you hear? We recently revealed our Skin. A new unique collection of speciality papers that is. Skin Curious Collection is a smooth yet silky range with a distinct matt finish. To launch this exciting new product, we produced a small promo of four A5 cards to show the print quality of the stock as well as a brand spanking new swatch. Three60 created the promo, using the idea of a ‘second skin’ to develop the creative. Three60 often collaborate with some pretty cool cats. Enter photographer Pierre Toussaint and make-up artist Rae Morris. Next, organise a photo shoot of a striking male model with a set of lips most women would die for, add some glycerine and a mesmerising display of paint and you have some seriously stunning visuals that make up the mini promo.
Three60 wanted to create energy and tension with the paint, with the ‘second skin’ made-up of texture and rich colour. They did this by covering the subject in paint so that he was almost non-existent. Hours of experimentation with the glycerine added thickness and body to the paint which was then applied with consideration and yet elements of randomness. We can honestly say when the first round of images came through, there was a touch of shock and yet a massive amount of intrigue. We were like ‘What is this?!’ and yet we absolutely loved it!
The postcards are printed on Skin Curious Collection Extra White 380gsm (offset printed), Extra White 380gsm (1 colour black offset) this is the spec card, Digital Extra White 270gsm (HP Indigo CMYK) and Black 270gsm (1 colour screen print – silver metallic ink). The range comes in a palette of contemporary colours, includes a digital sheet and is resistant to scuff and finger marks. The three pastel shades (Extra White, Ivory and Stone) handle 4 colour printing brilliantly. Alternating belly bands in either Red 270gsm or Pink 270gsm (1 colour black offset).
You can use Skin for offset printing, letterpress, digital (the certified sheet only) and some great embellishments (think navy foil on the Dark Blue stock or black foil on the black). FSC certified and exclusively sold in Australia by us, the range is created by Arjowiggins Creative Papers (Europe). It can be used for invitations, presentation folders, luxury packaging, business cards, fashion labels, prestigious brochures and books.
To launch the new range we held six intimate breakfast events in VIC, NSW, ACT, QLD and SA. The invite for the launch inadvertently became a second promo. It was a little beauty. A triplexed number with Skin Curious Indigo 270gsm on either side of some Keaykolour Jet Black 400gsm, one hit of silver on the back, see pictures above. There were lots of croissants and coffee, overseas paper samples to ogle at and general good times. Great to see those that did attend rise and shine so early. We loved hosting you!
Your paper specialist or account manager will be around with your Skin promo and swatch soon. Call your nearest samples department if you’d like some Skin samples.
‘Gecko is a gecko. Macoote is a big, furry monster. Together, they’re best buddies! Join them on their picnic adventure, and don’t forget to bring your imagination…’ This beautifully illustrated book aims to teach children how to understand the concept of compromise and the power of the imagination. You’re never too old to read children’s books really. How we’d love to spend our days reading books to each other and still manage our busy schedules. Add some bean bags and maybe some hot chocolates and we’re good to go!
The story of Gecko & Macoote is brought to life by the clever writing style and distinctive illustrations of the Melbourne author and illustrator team David Cooley and Paul Smith. Digitally printed by Ellikon HP Indigo 5000, on Sovereign Offset 135gsm (text) and 300gsm (cover) with a special matt cellosheen, the result is bright and engaging and the colours are so vibrant they are practically popping off the page right into our laps. The book was printed in Melbourne so the pair could control the printing process, making sure the colours reproduced well on the uncoated stock. “And we kept the cost down by doing a small run on the digital press,” says David.
This beautifully illustrated book is sure to capture the hearts of every child, not to mention us big kids! With Christmas just around the corner, it would make great gift. Visit their site if you want to add the book to your Santa bag www.geckoandmacoote.com
Our Maine Girl has hit the French Alps! ‘A natural beauty’ is the new addition to our Maine Recycled story. Created by Christopher Nielsen, this beautiful vintage illustration is the latest instalment, complete with an environmental twist. We printed three cards: one offset, one on an HP Indigo 3050 and another on a Xerox 1000, all on the silk 350gsm.
It was such a treat to collaborate with Thursday Design again, who love working on the project as much as we do. Our aim this time was to highlight the environmental components of the range that comes in gloss and silk finishes. A naturally high white sheet that reliably performs on press and is consistently super smooth, crisp and clean, it has earned itself a reputation as one of Europe’s best selling recycled coated papers.
Maine Recycled has a pretty high recycled content. The 60% recycled fibre is sourced entirely from premium office waste and it also contains 40% virgin fibre, all of which is FSC® certified. Maine Recycled comes from France, produced in a facility that operates under the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System. It’s certified carbon neutral from cradle to printer too.
The mill, along with the manufacturer Arjowiggins Graphic (France), are constantly looking at ways to reduce their environmental impact, including a commitment to reduce the mill’s carbon footprint by 3% each year. That works for us!
Maine Recycled – a genuine natural beauty, is exclusive to us, the paper people. Your paper specialist will be around soon with a copy of your postcard.
FEATURES
Bright white A2+ coated paper
60% recycled fibre (FSC® certified post consumer waste)
40% virgin fibre (FSC® certified)
Certified carbon neutral paper
Excellent press results
Very fast drying time
Suitable for offset and digital (HP Indigo and Dry Toner) printing
Bird Design from Melbourne have created a campaign for Cavalier Courage, a boutique beer developed to raise awareness and funds for Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Their job was to bring the myth of Sisyphus to life. They used Knight Digital – Indigo for the campaign and we have to say, the collateral sure is striking and inspiring and the story behind its creation even more so.
During an epiphany, Ian Davis, a doctor who suffers from MND, was inspired to make a difference. He contacted the team at Cavalier Brewing for their expertise and chose the name Cavalier Courage. It was Albert Camus’ essay on the king that touched Ian. He felt the story reflects the struggle MND patients go through. Sisyphus is about a king condemed to the underworld. His punishment was to push a boulder up a hill, only to have it roll down again when he reached the top.
Bird Design built on this powerful message, creating a bright and hopeful design printed digitally across a perforated brochure (270gsm) so the message can be shared as a postcard, A3 poster (160gsm) and beer coasters (325gsm). If you take a closer look at the design, there’s a play on the words ‘courage’ and ‘cure’. Bubbles represent the beer and you can see the stress and weight of the boulder Sisyphus is holding through the slanted ‘U’. The dramatic rays of sunshine that don’t quite cover the entire page show us there’s much more to do in finding a cure.
Tight production and budget deadlines and the aim to produce quality work led the boys to use Knight Digital – Indigo. Luke Carson from Bird Design: “The quality of finish achieved was fantastic. The paper is a nice sharp white, feels good, but most importantly the print result is sharp and the colours bright. Matching PMS colours with the Indigo press on Knight Digital – Indigo was very accurate too.”
What started out as an exciting and rewarding project for for Bird Design turned into a passion which they hope will contribute to the beer’s success. To find out how you can help make the beer a success too, visit the website for the low down.
A couple of months back we had a burst of inspiration after seeing some digital projects featuring white ink. We decided the only thing that could scratch our itch was some experimenting, so we trotted off to Bambra Press in Melbourne and spoke to Carbon8 in Sydney. As a result, here’s 12 short tips and observations on working with the white ink.
The fairly new ElectroInk white process, is currently only available for Indigo presses. It allows you to print opaque white ink on coloured or darker papers, providing a result that was traditionally only achieved through screen printing, matt pigment foiling, or through many passes on an offset press. And as the ink is opaque, it means you can print 4 colours straight over the top without it soaking back into the sheet.
How many hits? When requesting print samples of your work, ask your printer whether they think one, three or five hits of white ink is better. Generally, Bambra feel that between three and five hits is enough for a foundation. Seven is the most they’ve ever needed to do, dependant on the stock and the nature of the job (each extra hit will add to the cost).
The best result. Around three to four hits of white looked really good when we tested it. The first hit wasn’t strong enough – it made the type and images look washed out. The more we pushed the hits of white, the greater the result, but it often resulted in ink picking. Mis-registration also started to creep into the mix (the paper will inevitably move around the machine a little).
Picking. The slight picking occurs because there’s too much wet ink. The Indigo uses a lot of pressure so with fine layers, each layer can pull the ink away slightly, increasing the chance of picking. Bambra note that thicker boards may have a tendency to do this (FYI a 300gsm sheet may mic up differently from one to another – gsm is a measure of weight not thickness so be aware of this when choosing paper).
Type. The type held up really well. Even the 7pt type only started to pick slightly when we did seven continuous hits of white ink (see pic 4 above).
Coloured paper. In days gone by, digital printing pretty much meant coloured ink/toner on white or light coloured papers. HP ElectroInk has increased the capabilities of digital printing, allowing you to print on almost any coloured paper. This is perfect for short run jobs that need to make an impact, like invitations. You can use the white ink as a base on which to apply 4 colour over the top (the colour won’t soak back), or use the white on its own, or apply white over the top of 4 colour, depending on the desired result.
Substrates. Indigo presses work best with papers that are treated with a coating that provides maximum tac to the ElectroInk. There are many HP certified papers with this coating, but not so many coloured options. In our trials, we found that non HP certified papers can work too. Keaykolour Tangerine 300gsm, Royal Blue 250gsm, Jet Black 250gsm and Guardsmen Red 300gsm all provided great results without any additional coating. Bambra have even printed balsa wood (see pic.5 above) without it being coated. Amazing! If you are planning to use a standard sheet, best discuss a mini trial with your Indigo printer first. Some printers also offer the option to coat a standard sheet in house. We have seen some great results with this extra coating on unusual stocks like Boxboard and Chill Board. Carbon8 pre-coat stock and have so far used everything from Kaskad, Curious to Buffalo Board through their machines.
Drying. A job printed with white ink needs to dry and the more hits of ink, the more time it needs but it’s not like offset printing. ElectroInk should dry in a matter of hours not days, retaining the benefits of a fast turnaround for digital print.
Short grain. Paper was cut short grain (450×320) because the press feeds on the short edge and we used stock over 200gsm. Cut the sheet long grain when using stock that is 200gsm and under.
Roller marks. We noticed a roller mark on one side of the sheet when we did our print trials. It might be best to set-up your artwork accordingly, or at least ask your printer what to do.
Choose a good printer. Partnering with the right printer (who has the capabilities to print with white) is essential. The machine can’t operate itself! So find someone willing to push the boundaries with you. It’s also best to work with them in the beginning to set your files up properly. As Carbon8 mention: “Sometimes (as a printer) you have to stop yourself from saying ‘it’s good enough’. You need to take more time. A good printer knows how to make the white, white.” That’s the kind of standard you want to hear.
Designer hot tip! A great tip from Carbon8: Remember, when setting up your files, the white ink layer needs to go down first with all the other colours on top of it. Any objects that you want to print/appear above the white, need to be set up to ‘overprint’. You can check in Acrobat if you have prepared it correctly by going to ‘output preview’ and turning off the CMYK separations. If you do not see the full white separation but instead a reversed out image of the CMYK plates, then it is being ‘knocked-out’ and will not sit below at 100% as it should.
Costs. This will vary according to the number of hits because there is a per click/hit charge (a ball park figure, printing may cost around 75c-$1+ per sheet). White ink is a tricky process so there is a set-up cost too, a bit like doing a traditional embellishment. But the benefit of digital print is although it is expensive per unit you can keep the units as low as you need and therefore keep costs affordable.
So there you have it paper lovers. If you do any work with white ink in the future, please share your tips with us on our Facebook page or via Twitter (@KWDoggett) using the hashtag #whiteink – we’d love to hear about your experiences and see pictures of you work.
A big thanks to Brett and the team at Bambra Press for their hospitality! We conducted the trials on their HP Indigo 7600. And thank you to Ken from Carbon8 for your advice and time! Carbon8 run white ink on their HP Indigo 5500 and 3050 presses.
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