Foster International Packaging

Printing... We've come a long way.

Printing is your opportunity to let your product sell itself. Attractive, high quality printing allows your product to be the most desirable one on the shelf.

At Foster Packaging, we can now offer print runs on as little as 350kg of material - giving the benefit of high quality printing to the smaller user.

Using the lates Roto Gravure printing technology, we print in full high definition colour with up to a 9-colour print process with eiither a matt or gloss finish. We are also able to do a a matt/gloss combination, plus the option of newly developed pearlised inks to give your product a visual edge.

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Gravure Printing:

Gravure printing is characteristically used for long run, high quality printing producing a sharp fine image.

The image is etched on the surface of a metal plate.

The etched area is filled with ink, then the plate is rotated on a cylinder that transfers the image onto the paper or other material.

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Digital Printing - Indigo Digital Press

The technology used is based on HP ElectroInk, which uses small colour particles suspended in Imaging Oil (Isopar) that can be attracted or repelled by means of a voltage differential.

The ink forms a very thin and smooth plastic layer on the paper surface. The fact that these particles are so small ensures that the printed image does not mask the underlying surface roughness/gloss of the paper, as can be possible with some toner-based processes, bringing Indigo printing closer in appearance to conventional offset lithography, whereby Ink is actually absorbed into the paper.