After Printing Gold Ink on PET and Laminating with Aluminum Foil, the Gold Reflection Turns Yellow and the Base Color Appears Purplish Red—How Should the Ink Be Adjusted?
- When gold ink is printed on PET and laminated with aluminum foil without a white ink backing, the gold reflection turns yellow and the base color appears purplish red.
- The initial adjustment formula was red gold powder/gold adjusting varnish/transparent yellow = 3/9/0.5, which gave an acceptable gold reflection but an insufficiently red base color.
- After adjusting to blue gold powder/red gold powder/gold adjusting varnish/gold red = 1/3/9/0.2, the gold reflection was acceptable and the base color improved slightly.
- The base color effect comes mainly from gold red rather than gold powder, so a small amount of peach red can be added and part of the red gold powder can be replaced with blue gold powder, with the specific ratio adjusted slowly.
- Another approach is to dilute the yellow ink and process red ink by 70% each, use no white backing, and then laminate with aluminum foil.
Yishi: After printing gold ink on PET and laminating with aluminum foil, the gold reflection turns yellow and the base color appears purplish red. How should the ink be adjusted?
Miman: Is the gold printed directly or as a single color?
Yishi: The gold ink is laminated to the aluminum foil without a white ink base.
Miman: Try adjusting the gold ink well and then adding the same type of transparent yellow.
Yishi: Red gold powder/gold adjusting varnish/transparent yellow = 3/9/0.5. The reflection is acceptable now, but the base color is not red enough.
Xindongfang Ink Shuimu: Replace part of the red gold powder with blue gold powder, and add a little 48:1 gold red.
Yishi: I added it as you said: blue gold powder/red gold powder/gold adjusting varnish/gold red = 1/3/9/0.2. The reflection is acceptable now, and the base color is slightly better. Is it that the gold powder itself reflects light, so hiding power has a big influence? I don't know how it would be if the gold powder content were increased, but the cost would be higher again.
Xindongfang Ink Shuimu: Your problem is that the base color is wrong—why increase the gold powder content? The red base color effect comes from the gold red, not the gold powder. If the effect is not blue enough or not red enough, adding a little peach red is also fine. After adding red, the surface color will turn red, which is why part of the red gold powder was replaced with blue gold powder; the specific ratio needs to be adjusted slowly.
fc Sange: Dilute the yellow ink by 70% and the process red ink by 70%, do not use a white backing, and then laminate with aluminum foil—you can try it. If you can describe the printing plate situation in more detail, it will be easier to solve.
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