Elevate Your Prints with Fifth and Sixth Colour Printing 

Want your prints to leave a lasting impression? Discover how our fifth and sixth colour printing process can transform your designs with stunning, eye-catching colours that set you apart from the competition. Learn how these specialty colours can elevate your brand’s visual impact and make your materials truly stand out!

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The Power of Fifth and now 6th Colours

If you're already familiar with the basics of full-colour printing using CMYK, it’s time to explore the exciting possibilities that specialty colours can bring to your prints and offline marketing material.

From metallic gold and silver to clear, white, and even neon inks, each option offers a distinct way to enhance your design and make your materials stand out. The result? Eye-catching prints that grab attention, sparking more meaningful conversations with your customers and prospects.

Not sure which ink suits your project? Let’s explore how each specialty colour can amplify your brand’s message and bring your creative vision to life!

Gold Metallic Ink Process

Can Gold Metallic Ink really make a difference in your prints? Absolutely! The question is, how does it enhance your design? Adding gold metallic ink to your prints creates a striking, luxurious effect that instantly grabs attention and adds a premium feel.

Gold metallic ink brings a touch of elegance and sophistication to your marketing materials, making them stand out in a way that’s both eye-catching and memorable. It’s the perfect choice for elevating your branding and leaving a lasting impression with your customers and prospects.

Silver Metallic Ink Process

Silver Metallic Ink brings a whole new dimension to your prints, adding a sleek and polished finish that catches the light in all the right ways. Its cool, contemporary shine adds a sophisticated flair, perfect for creating standout marketing materials that leave a memorable impression.

And don’t forget—metallic toners aren’t limited to highlights alone. When mixed with other colours, silver and even gold metallic ink offers endless possibilities, allowing you to create unique combinations and a wide array of new shades. This flexibility lets you craft designs that are truly one-of-a-kind, making your prints as distinctive as your brand.


Clear Ink Process

Can clear ink really make a difference in your prints? Absolutely! The question to ask is how. Applying clear toner to an otherwise flat-colour print has the ability to add depth and eye-catching clarity to your final prints, giving them a three-dimensional edge.

Adding clear toner is also an effective way to add a touch of elegance and class to your marketing pieces! Never underestimate the tasteful element that clear ink can add to your branding message.

Clear Ink Advantages

  • Make your Print Pop - Clear ink helps colours pop, adding a stunning high-gloss finish to photos and other elements.
  • Focus Attention -  Draw attention to key messages by using clear ink to highlight what’s important.
  • Variable Printing - Personalise your prints. The digital printing process used to apply clear ink allows you to add variable information and customise content for your customers.
  • Added Protection - Flood the entire page with clear ink to achieve a similar effect to lamination, adding protection to products that are prone to wear.

Neon Pink

If you’re looking for a bold but tasteful pop to your prints, then our neon pink ink option might be exactly what you need. Neon pink is especially popular in all things trendy, such as fashion, cosmetics, and beauty, but is also an excellent solution for marketing other products due to its vibrant colour.

Another great aspect of our neon palette is that it becomes reflective when placed under UV light. This works for both neon pink and yellow.

Neon Yellow (comming soon)

Our neon yellow ink option is an excellent solution to make your prints brighter and more striking! Neon yellow is a hallmark for safety applications, packaging, or highlighting promotions and is especially effective in catching visual attention due to its luminosity.

If you’re looking to get blinding but brand-effective prints for your marketing plan, or simply need some safety signage to caution passers-by of potential hazards, then neon yellow is the ink for you.

White Ink Process

If there’s one colour that’s taken for granted in the printing world, it’s definitely white ink! Having the white ink process applied to your prints can actually make a huge difference when it comes to producing brightly coloured logos and images onto dark or dull-coloured stock.

This is a great solution when printing on clear, black, or dark card stocks and stickers, as it ensures that each artwork is represented in its fullest colour and brightness.

Unlike neon ink, white ink can be added to any mix of colours to make them really pop and shout the message your brand brings.

Why White Ink on Kraft Buffalo stock? 

CMYK Only


Earthy and Rustic

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White Ink Only 


Simple and Elegant 

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White Ink + CMYK Process


Make it POP

PLEASE NOTE:
If there’s one colour that’s taken for granted in the printing world, it’s definitely white ink! Having the white ink process applied to your prints can actually make a huge difference when it comes to producing brightly coloured logos and images onto dark or dull-coloured stock.

This is a great solution when printing on clear, black, or dark card stocks and stickers, as it ensures that each artwork is represented in its fullest colour and brightness.

Unlike neon ink, white ink can be added to any mix of colours to make them really pop and shout the message your brand brings.

Traditional full colour CMYK print on natural kraft board

Full-colour printing processes use a combination of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink or toner (CMYK). Designed to be printed on a white base, CMYK colours are translucent so they can combine to achieve different colours and effects. As they are translucent (think coloured glass), when printing on white card, colours look solid and bright – but when printed on a coloured base like Kraft stock, colours blend with the natural board colour.

Colours darker than the board will generally appear solid but darker and less vibrant than they would appear on white.

Colours lighter than the board, for instance yellows or light shades, may not be visible or may look more like a watermark rather than having a solid feel.

It is important to remember that white elements in standard CMYK designs have no ink/toner applied, showing just the white card underneath. So, when these designs are printed on Kraft card, they will have no fill, and the Kraft card will show in these areas.

Adding a white base for vibrancy

But what if you want more pop and vibrancy?

When you want your colours to pop off specialty-coloured stock like brown earth-looking Kraft stock, and/or you want to include white elements in your design, our specialty white ink option will help achieve the look you're after.

By adding white as the fifth colour in the CMYK printing process, you can not only have white in your design but also use it as a base layer to create more vibrant and bright colours on coloured paper stocks.

NO TRANSPARENT COLOURS  When printing with white ink, all colours need to be set to 100% opacity. Transparent elements in designs will not work with white ink.

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