In this week’s Makeist newsletter, I put out a call to my design, print, and paper community for help. Now I’m calling on you, my indie-publishing, micro-press zine community. Read the original post →
TL;DR: CMYK+ Printer (Wanted)
What it is: A home-office laser printer that adds white, metallics, fluorescents, and clear toner to standard CMYK, including on dark and kraft stocks.
Why it matters: Big-shop effects on short-run books, zines, cards, and prints.
Known aliases: Fujifilm Revoria SC285; Xerox PrimeLink with specialty stations; Ricoh and Konica Minolta CMYK+ variants.
Problem: Hard to access or test; priced above desktop printers.
Have a lead? Comment if you know of a service bureau, university, or community shop that runs small tests on CMYK+ printers, or a demo room willing to print kraft/black with white + metallic + fluorescent + clear.
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I would be very hesitant to use metallic inks in an inkjet printer. My experience printing with metallics in letterpress, silkscreen and Riso is that inks with metallic pigments dry up quickly and clog up everything. I imagine it would behave like peanut butter in an inkjet cartridge. For small projects I'd see if there are any letterpress shops local to you that offer foil stamping. Offset printing is usually the method of choice for large runs of CMYK+/spot color/metallics