Printing for the Pharmaceutical Market

These will impact the printer in terms of costs, because these issues often mandate more print stations. "It adds up to more print stations being necessary to do pharma work," he says. "Because if you're printing a big solid black, you may have to print two plates of it—one to keep the real tiny highlights and another one for the graphics side of it." Many times, adding security features will also require an additional print station. So, to an untrained eye, a package may look like a three-color print job. "But then you really get into the guts of it, and it may have two different coatings," Johnson continues. "It may have one for security, and it may have two different black plates."