double spot varnish opinion
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- iDp
so I've got a business card that I'm thinking of doing for a lady who waxes people for a living.
I want to do a spot UV and then lay another spot UV over the top of the first that would give the outside of the first spot a texture...sooo
Q: can you gradient a spot so that its smooth?
- designerror0
does she pay you back with a brazilian wax?
- dippy0
i don't understand what you're trying to do? You want to gradient a spot (which I'm pretty sure you can't do, by the way), but you want texture?
- johndiggity0
it's ca;;ed spot varnish because it's just that, spot, not process. so no you can't.
have you thought about melting wax on the cards instead?
- dippy0
wax on the card -- great idea, john! Ima stealing it for the next time some waxer person asks me to design their cards.
iDp, you can do a dull/matte spot varnish on certain places, and a glossy varnish on others. Printers won't put one varnish on top of another.
- johndiggity0
you can put varnishes on top of each other, but you will probably need an aqueous coating between varnishes. if they are subtle, you might lose some of the effect under the coating.
you could check out thermographic printing if you want to imitate the wax look and feel, but want more precision than just random drips and splatters. it even scratches and flakes like wax if you pick at it.
- dippy0
yes, johndiggity speaks the truth. I am an idiot.
Also, you could fake the gradient by designing your spot varnish areas using halftone dot shapes that slowly get sparser and sparser.
Or maybe not. I'm just making things up now.
- johndiggity0
another stupid idea:
make a sheet of pubic hair that you apply to the back of the card and the user would peel it off to read the info.
- dippy0
i'm sure you can get plenty of people on NT to donate their pubes for this.
- johndiggity0
i'm down. anything for a good cause.
- janne0
*envelope sent
- dippy0
announcement: please stop sending iDp any more pubes. Janne has provided enough.
;)
- iDp0
lol...yeah basically the reason for two runs on the spot would be one that would make the shape of the fake wax strip and the second to add a texture to the (for lack of a better word) lip of the first spot...ya feel? I was thinking about faking it with tiny circles but I'm just thinking they might be noticeable where the trick is to have the whole thing smooth so it looks like someone smeared one strip of clear wax...I'll look into the thermographic thing...any good links to what can be done.
- johndiggity0
you can't really tell on the screen, but there are a bunch of application ideas here:
http://www.thermographers.org/co…
- iDp0
hmm know of any printers that do that?...I might get some good samples from...the one with the syrup looks about right. The other idea which would make it a pain for fer to carry and use would be to apply some of that sticky stuff that people put on magazines to hold cd cases...would be too impractical though. But some sort of thing like that would be pretty cool if it werent too sticky.
- JamesEngage0
must be a lot of money in the waxing trade for them to have double spot varnished cards :)
- taragee0
thermography is reletively cheap & woudl be just liek wax...
- iDp0
I don't know if an extra $50 is going to break anyones bank account...probably one extra lip wax for her. :P
- iDp0
cool I'll have to check that out then. thanks guys!
- johndiggity0
they probably charge about $100 to melt wax on womens' privates and peel it off. do the math.
shit, that sounds like a good gig now that you mention it. do i need a liscence?
- dippy0
some places even do thermography for free unless it's full-bleed