Chunky Munkey

Hi there.

Hope all is good where you are.

I am sure you would all agree that making a GREAT first impression is a pretty high priority when designing for most print projects?

Of course, much of this can be achieved with beautiful  layouts, graphics and imagery and perhaps a nice foil or spot UV. Without doubt though, by using the sense of touch or feel along with the visual design elements, this vital first impression will be enhanced tremendously and is likely to be much more memorable.

Litho Printing on really chunky board is a great and often simple way to increase this wow factor. Few printers can print onto anything more than 400gsm or 500micron. Here at Opal though, we can print directly onto board up to 800 micron thick – almost 1mm! Therefore, printing on 540gsm Colorplan or 590gsm Vanguard for example is not a problem, neither are many chunky box boards.

Duplexed Board

Duplexing or bonding materials together, is a great way to create chunky stocks. The world is your creative oyster when it comes to duplexing, triplexing and multi duplexing. Our very good friends at GF Smith offer an fantastic facility where they supply their materials, especially Colorplan, duplexed and triplexed. Quite simply 2 or more materials (ideally of similar initial thicknesses) are bonded together. The great beauty of duplexing etc is that you can mix colours and textures . . . so many options!

The images here show a gorgeous invitation we produced that required 9 lots of duplexing! Great thanks to GF Smith on this one – they really pulled out the stops on a really tight deadline project.

Using Colorplan, the new Factory Yellow was sandwiched between layers of Pristine White. The invites were debossed and foiled in grey – simple but absolutely stunning, with a complimentary wallet to keep it looking lovely!

If you want other materials duplexed, that’s not a problem either. Here at Opal, we offer a service to duplex and triplex pretty much any material.

We recently produced our new business cards and this included triplexing 3 lots of 270gsm Colorset (Fenner Paper). We liked the lime green and grey as well as the fact that Colorset is 100% recycled. We are all really pleased with them and, with the tasty foiling on the reverse, there has been a great deal of praise. A brilliant first impression indeed.

We recently produced our new business cards and this included triplexing 3 lots of 270gsm Colorset (Fenner Paper). We liked the lime green and grey as well as the fact that Colorset is 100% recycled. We are all really pleased with them and, with the tasty foiling on the reverse, there has been a great deal of praise. A brilliant first impression indeed.