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12 common printing processes

12 common printing processes in packaging design
Nov 13th,2025 170 浏览量
  • Laser Silver Edges:

Laser silver edges utilize laser materials that create a vibrant rainbow-like effect when illuminated from different angles. The color transitions are natural and layered, creating a highly visually appealing effect.

  • Gold Hot Stamping:

The core advantage of gold hot stamping lies in its ability to enhance the visual quality and craftsmanship of an object through the symbolic meaning and metallic texture of gold. It also offers durability and design flexibility, making it a popular choice for packaging, printing, and decoration, and a classic finish that embodies quality and taste.

  • UV:

UV coatings can be cured to create either a glossy or matte finish. Glossy UV offers a strong mirror-like sheen and high light reflectivity, giving designs or text a crystal-clear appearance. Matte UV creates a soft, delicate matte effect, creating a more premium look.

  • Gold Hot Stamping:

Gold itself has a strong visual impact. Gold hot stamping creates a rich metallic sheen on the edges or designs. Whether matte or glossy, the finish can create a warm or dazzling effect under light, instantly enhancing the object's visual appeal.

  • Laser:

Laser patterns can reflect, refract, or diffract light at different angles, creating a dynamic effect that changes color with viewing angle. For example, a gold color viewed from the front might shift to green, blue, or even a gradient, shimmering rainbow effect from the side. This creates a visual impact far greater than that of ordinary metallic or solid colors.

  • Embossed:

Concave and convex textures create contrasting light and dark through differences in light reflection, creating a three-dimensional shadow effect on a flat surface. Even without relying on color, the texture itself can highlight the design theme (such as an embossed logo or pattern) and enhance visual focus.

  • Quicksand:

The core of the process is "flow." The surface of the substrate typically contains a liquid (such as water or silicone oil) and solid particles (such as glitter, colored sand, sequins, or small decorative items). When the substrate is tilted or shaken, the particles naturally settle, float, or tumble with the liquid, creating a slowly changing dynamic effect (such as the layered flow of colored sand or the drift of sequins with the liquid). This breaks the monotony of static design and creates a "dynamic visual" experience.

  • Relief:

Relief patterns are not completely independent of the substrate; rather, they are based on it. A three-dimensional effect is created through the contrast between raised and recessed areas—the raised areas appear to be raised, while the recessed areas rely on the substrate itself. This creates a three-dimensional effect while maintaining its integrity (e.g., relief carvings on stone tablets and three-dimensional patterns on packaging).

  • Gratings:

The core advantage of grating technology lies in its ability to transcend the limitations of two-dimensional vision through optical principles, achieving unique effects such as naked-eye 3D and dynamic image changes, combining visual appeal, interactivity, and anti-counterfeiting properties.

  • Refractive Gratings:

The refracting patterning process creates a pattern of regular, raised and recessed patterns on the surface of printed materials. When illuminated by light, these patterns create a layered, shimmering effect of light refraction and a two-dimensional, three-dimensional appearance. For example, a triangular or diamond pattern composed of straight convex lines produces a pronounced reflective effect; a circular pattern composed of curved convex lines produces symmetrical fan-shaped reflected light centered on the center of the circle, which rotates and shimmers with changes in the angle of incidence.

  • Embossing:

The raised pattern creates a distinct height difference from the flat base. Under light, the raised and recessed areas create a contrast (higher light in the raised areas, more shadow in the recessed areas), enhancing the pattern's depth and three-dimensionality. Even from a distance, the outline of the pattern can be clearly discerned (for example, the title of a book cover, 10g0, creates a "floating" effect through embossing).

  • Flocking:

The length of the pile can be adjusted to your needs (usually 0.03-3mm). By using localized flocking or varying density, you can create a concave-convex pattern or gradient effect, enhancing visual impact.
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