Do You Know The Different Processes Of Wedding Invitation Printing?

Although the home use printers can produce high quality
printouts. Couples can certainly print their wedding cards at
home. However, many of them will still opt to hire a wedding
invitation printer to do the work. This is because it is
virtually no way to do some of the printing processes at home.
The followings are some of the common process that will be
involved in invitation card printing.

Full Color Printing

In fact, it should be called four color printing. With the four
colors Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CMYK in short), you can
nearly get all the colors printed. Indeed it is possible to have
color printing at home and some of the home use printers are
also using CMYK colors. However, it is still suggested to hire a
printer to print the invitations.

First of all no all paper can be used with your printer at
home. You printer probably cannot handle paper over certain
thickness. Besides, some of the paper cannot be used with the
ink of toner of your printer. On the other hand, if you would
like to have some special colors such as fluorescent colors or
metallic colors, there is no way to print these colors at home.
In this case the only choice is to hire a professional wedding
invitation printer.

You may plan to make your own wedding invitation design using
your PC and give the computer files to the printer to have the
print job done. In this case you have to communicate with your
printer for all the necessary requirements. Some examples will
be the resolution of the images required (usually 350dpi) and
the format of the file (CMYK instead of RGB format).

Die-cutting

Die-cutting is not a printing process but a post printing
process. In fact, all the techniques that are going to be
discussed below will be post printing processes. With the
technique of die-cutting, you can make beautiful "cutting-out"
on your wedding invitation. However, if you are thinking of very
fine and delicate patterns, die-cutting cannot be used. In this
case you will need to go for the option of laser cutting. With
laser cutting you can make very fine "cutting-out" but that will
probably increase the cost of production.

Besides laser cutting, any technique related to laser is laser
marking. With laser marking, patterns can be "marked" on the
paper. The effect of laser marking varies from material to
material. For some paper you can see the marks on the paper and
for some out kind of paper, you can only use you hand to feel
the marks.

Hot Stamping and Emboss

On your wedding invitation, you can also have some patterns
embossed such that people can feel the patterns with their
hands. One of the common application of emboss on invitation
card design is embossing the logo or monogram of the couple.
Apart from emboss, hot stamping is also a common technique that
will be used in producing wedding invitations. You can choose
the color of the hot stamping foil and some of the common colors
are gold, silver and purple. Couples will usually choose foils
with shiny effect since the invitation will look more elegant
this way. The most common application of hot stamping the
contents of the wedding invitations, normally couples will have
the words on the cards hot stamped instead of printing.

About The Author: TM Lung is a wedding invitation designer. He
has a great interest in Chinese Style Wedding Invitations. His
works can be found from http://www.983wedding.com. His personal
blog is http://www.weddingabc.net and some other wedding vendors
can be found from http://www.imarry.org