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IAPHC Lenticular Award Category

IAPHC, Inc., the Graphic Professionals Resource Network has recently announced a newly designated Lenticular Award Category as part of its annual showcase of printed samples that exemplify the craft, art and science employed by the global printing and graphics arts community.

The International Gallery has become a premier event for the Graphic Communications industry worldwide, with continual growth in entry numbers and increased support by industry supplier firms.

HumanEyes is going to be the 1^st sponsor of IAPHC International Gallery’s Lenticular Award Category. This new category is incredible opportunity to promote your lenticular business as well as make the graphics community at large to recognize the growing importance of lenticular imaging.

All International Gallery entries are judged on the quality and difficulty of the graphic arts processes used; i.e. ink coverage, intensity of solids, registration, dot structure, paper usage, binding, finishing, degree of difficulty, overall visual appearance and effective communication.

The Best of the Best awards will be presented in January 2008, in conjunction with IAPHC’s celebration of International Printing Week in Las Vegas.

Click on the following link to download the IAPHC International Gallery Entry Form:

http://www.humaneyes.com/uploads/File/IAPHC_entry_form.pdf

To learn more about the IAPHC organization and the International Gallery, please visit www.iaphc.org.

Add comment November 4th, 2007

Lenticular Biz Cards

Check out this article: click here

This article talks about creating exciting business cards that help boast your business. One of those type of cards is of course eye-catching lenticular business cards.

1 comment December 18th, 2006

New Lenticular Poster for Ghost Rider Movie

Check out this link: GhostRider Poster.

Notice the comment: “Lenticular posters seem to be all the rage now-a-days“

Add comment December 18th, 2006

Printing on almost any machine

Hello,

Lenticular - 3D printing has come a long way. Today’s printers are versatile and can accept many types of substrates. Lenticular can be printed on offset and digital printers with relative ease and productivity.

Digital printers run the spectrum from the low end Epson Stylus series to the high-end Nur flat-bed printers. The common denominator is that these digital printers are commonly used for short runs and to print poster size images.  Digital printing can be done in two ways:

• Print the image on paper (photo quality) and then have it laminated onto the lenticular.
• Print directly on the lenticular. These can be done with many larger flatbeds such as the Nur – where the lenses have been treated with a special solvent.

Offset printing is for the masses and is very doable today.  Many professional printers have invested in presses dedicated to lenticular printing. Offset printing can be used to mass-produce fine quality 3D images for magazine covers, notebook covers, postcards and many more applications. In general the offset printing is done on soft lenticular that is 60LPI and higher.

More later.

Add comment June 11th, 2006