Finishing - Conventional

This week's selection is a mail promotion from American Express for its Platinum Selects program. The piece arrives shrink-wrapped with a custom label. Heavy, pearlescent paper with touches of silver foil presents substance and style. We see lots of great uses for this format, including event invitations, ticket delivery or product promotion.

A new website has been launched by Brandtjen & Kluge with features including social media plugins and instant language translation.

Virtually all of the major bindery systems' manufacturers are now concentrating on digital print. And they're introducing new offerings at a rapid pace. This year's drupa will see an eye-popping number of new and innovative bindery offerings designed specifically for digital.

We're kicking off 2016 with an event invitation to remember for an event at Tiny Jewel Box in Washington, D.C. The piece takes the form of a stylish wrap that self mails with a custom seal and custom postage stamp. Nested inside is a letterpress invitation that looks and feels amazing.

J.J. Keller & Associates recently installed Colter & Peterson’s 37-inch Saber X15 with Microcut and a custom built table bed.

Heidelberg recently hosted over 150 customers from the United States, Canada and Brazil for a full day of demonstrations and seminars at an open house. Customers who attended the event had the opportunity to view live demonstrations of the latest technology across Heidelberg’s comprehensive print portfolio, the North American launch of the new DryStar LED and the unveiling of its newly branded demonstration center, Print Media Center Atlanta.

The hybrid format combines an iron cross, an open gate fold and a swinger into a gorgeous invitation.

A recent study on the use of foil and emboss effects finds that bestsellers are four times as likely to use cover decoration.

A Heiber & Schroder WP Speedliner 600 has been installed at Platinum Converting’s facility in Itasca, Illinois.

Produced by Print Promotions, this super-stylish brochure for Mercedes House mimics the architecture of the 30-story building.