Aluminum Holiday Ornament This holiday ornament designed and printed for a local charity celebrates their 25th anniversary. The elegant design combines a warm gold tint with a pearlescent white finish and highly contrasting black finish leaving room for personalization through engraving.
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Free Color Specifying eBook for Nameplates Design Your Nameplate or Label in Color In this FREE eBook you will: Learn the basics of color specification, from defining opaque, transparent and metallic colors to specifying gloss. Discover additional considerations in color development on metal ...
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What do all three of these nameplates have in common? They all took advantage of one of the many stock dies available at Northern Engraving. After one-hundred years manufacturing product identification, we have an extensive list of options - square, rectangular, circular and oval. Small, medium or ...
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Considerations in Color Development Translation of opaque color into a transparent tint of color is an effective option for taking advantage of the reflectivity of the metal substrate. Many target color chips are supplied as PMS colors chips, printed on a white substrate which impacts the overall ...
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Consideration of the gloss level of a color is an important aspect of specifying color that is often overlooked. Colors can look dramatically different when the gloss level is changed. Therefore understanding the requirement up front helps to facilitate colors that successfully support your product ...
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Yes, we do love minimal and clean nameplate designs, but we also love color. Colorful nameplates catch our attention with transparent tints of color, metallics and opaque colors used in backgrounds, on graphics, on text and in texture. Sometimes color completely transforms the look of a nameplate. ...
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Aluminum Wheel Inserts Wheel inserts for the automotive industry are exposed to harsh environments. A clear topcoat protects the metal and your printed image in this environment making the emblems not only resistant to damage from temperature extremes but also scratch, fade, salt, oil and chemical ...
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There are an endless array of options in designing a wheel inserts. The Buick wheel insert shown here combines molded plastic and aluminum to create a multi-dimensional look. The aluminum piece features bright graphics embossed on a spun background. The depth in the molded plastic piece adds a ...
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Deep Etch Metal Sill Plate The Oldsmobile Final 500 sillplate features a deep etch process combined with brushed and bright aluminum. Deep etch is a chemical process which creates recessed graphics with a depth of .005" compared to a standard etch depth of .0015" to .003". This option worked well ...
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