Glitter, pearlescent, fluorescent, thermochromic—even the names of specialty inks raise the specter of something exciting.

By Tom Polischuk

Glitter inks can provide enhanced visual appeal to labels, cartons, POP displays, and stickers. Rad-Cure’s RAD-KROME pearlescent and glitter UV and aqueous products for flexo and screen applications are available in irridescent, gold, and silver, with additional colors formulated on request.

To enhance visual effects with different inks, UVitec offers a rotary screen glitter UV coating. It can be used on in-line, combination printing applications to provide a printing surface that can complement most ink systems, including offset, letterpress, and flexo.