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Printing on special stock

Printing on special stock

From the course: Learning Print Production

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Printing on special stock

- [Instructor] You can achieve some interesting results by using special stock in your project. But printing on colored stock and ensuring reliable color may take a little bit of extra work. Now here's a really interesting project. It's the cover from the Mohawk Maker Quarterly. And this is an opportunity for Mohawk to showcase some of the really interesting stock that they create. Now at first glance this may look as if there's some interesting artwork in the background, and then there's this large rectangle at the top, which has sort of a taupe background, but here's what's really going on. This is actually printed on Mohawk Strathmore Wove in Riviera Rose. That's the color of the stock. Well then, how have they achieved the white areas of the artwork and the bright greens and bright oranges? Well, here's the whole story. There's the paper stock, and here's how it builds up. There were four hits of opaque, white ink.…

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