OUGD504 - Design for Print - Preparing and Planning to Print and Sourcing stock

Design for Print - Preparing and Planning to Print

21st November 2013

Because this is such an ambitious project - the preparing of the printing has taken half a day in itself! 

Facilities breakdown in chronological order:

1.Digital Print

• Octagon design - Border, Turquoise Background, centre with words, and registration marks.
• Inner Card design - double sided complete design with registration marks.

2.Screen Print

Paper Screens

• Rose box complete design & butterfly box complete design A1
• Octagon - gold swirls A1

Fabric Screens

• Foil and Flock inner card A3
• Illustrations and stars Octagon A1

3.Laser Cutter

• Octagon - Cut through stars and registration marks, score through folds.
• Rose box - cut through stars and around design and score
• Butterfly - cut around design and score

ADD REGISTRATION MARKS TO EVERYTHING!

***AMENDED : CANNOT PRINT DOUBLE SIDED A1 IN DIGITAL PRINT!***

I totally forgot that you can't print double sided a1 in digital print!

My peers say that I should screen print the whole thing. This sounds like a lot of work, but will the outcome be worth it? 

This would mean :

• 4 x a1 Paper screens
• 1 x a1 fabric screen
• 1 x a3 fabric screen

Sourcing stock

Stock needed (doing 4 complete Posh Pass the Parcels in total)

4x A1 Antique white stock - at least 330 - 400 gsm

2x A1 black card stock around 330 gsm

1xA1 (turquoise maybe?) or antique white stock

25th November 2013

***AMENDED : CANNOT BUY A1 ANTIQUE WHITE CARD IN THE LIBRARY!***

Further research reveals that it's not a very common item - but bleach white is. If I can get antique white / off white/ ivory / cream stock then I will go with that because bleach white doesn't really suit the 'posh' theme of the pack. 

I phoned my Dad, who works at a large scale printing company to see if he could help me out, as because it's such an uncommon item I would have to order it - at least 25 sheets from the likes of GF Smith that I can't afford and don't need that many!

Success! He managed to get me 10 sheets of a1 cream/ ivory card stock around 330 gsm and 3 sheets of turquoise. This is so useful but I won't be able to get it off him until the weekend which delays my printing plans for nearly a whole week.

Because of my trouble with stock I'm getting on with the things I am able to do. I printed off the inner card design on cream stock as it's only a3, and I've booked a laser cutter session for Thursday to cut out the Rose box design.

Because the Rose Box design is on card stock, I thought it would be easier having it cut out first to be able to register with my screen design. 

You can see the laser cutting of the boxes here.