Canada Post Has New Printer

Canada Post has a new security printer as is announced in the
June-July 2015 DETAILS magazine.

Colour Innovations Inc.

I read somewhere that the company has already printed Canadian stamps
sub contracting for the other Canadian stamp printers.

Canadian Bank Note ?
Lowe-Martin ?
Ashton Potter?


https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/bl...g&cat=stamps

According to the article it states that seven colour were used
to print this.

I see maybe four.

Used to be they would print beautiful stamps in only
one colour.

Now....

Just look at this label.

Wonder if they got the right person on the stamp ?

This is not a new printer despite what the Post Office says (unless they mean printing in their own right and not as a sub-contractor) for as my website www.stampprinters.info states:

Colour Innovations Inc., Toronto.
Founded: 1988.
First CPC stamp printed: 2003.
First stamps produced for Barbados, 2007.
Main printing process(es): Litho.
www.colourinnovations.com/

Known for its proprietary 750-1,000-line screen capability and unique postage stamp processes and techniques, Colour Innovations' stamps exhibit exceptional clarity and colour fidelity and stand out in a crowded field.

A direct supplier of pre-press services to CPC from its fully secure plant in Toronto, Colour Innovations has also printed a wide-range of both definitive and commemorative postage stamps as a sub-contractor of CPCs main suppliers.

More recently, in November 2007, Colour Innovations completed its first full-service postage stamp project for the Barbados Postal Service providing design, pre-press, printing, and finishing for a set of four turtle stamps.

The new stamp for Canada could well have seven inks on it. There is the blue and olive text, tagging ink and the photograph is almost certainly made-up of CMYK. This technique of using the four colour process for what some may say could have been printed in just black gives a far richer colour. Cartor is known to have done the same and an issue for Britain that includes graphic designer Abram Games proves this.

[Unfortunately every time I try to upload comparative imagery the system advises "successfully uploaded" but shows a broken link when viewing the page! I have wasted 20 minutes on this so far, and must now move on to other matters.]

I hope this helps.

GLENN



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I had a brainwave and now attach imagery in a new posting. It worked first time!

Hopefully the differences between "coloured black and white" and "true black and white" are clear in the scans, although the stamp is an even richer colour when viewing the actual stamp.

GLENN

Thank you Glenn for all that detailed information.

I figured you had something on this company.

I might be in the minority but I prefer the "true black and white"





Are certain printing presses required to achieve this
750-1,000-line screen capability

?

Lithograving, the screen, be it line-screen or stochastic screening, is a pre-press refinement, so is not dependent on the press that is intended to be used to achieve its effect.

Cartor often uses its presses for printing stamps with variable screens (from 100 line to 1,000 and stochastic (random) screening) on the same stamp to achieve the best effects. This is done via software packages that manipulates the electronic artwork prior to stepping-out into sheets and, therefore, before the creation of the cylinder or plate. If there is, say, a prominent tree in the artwork, as there was for a recent Cartor printed stamp issue, the leaves were a different screen to the trunk to achieve the best visual effect.

By way of a further example, The Thai postal service wanted to issue a sheetlet that would act as a demonstration of how screening effects could be varied and its "125th Anniversary of the Thai Postal Service" miniature sheet included 100, 300, 600 and stochastic screening.

There was a time when not all printers had the capability of producing hi-quality screening. Questa had introduced "super-litho" with a far higher screen capability than other printers used by Royal Mail and so they had to reduce potential quality to that of its competitors to ensure a standard look across printers producing the same stamps (Britain's 1st and 2nd class definitives).

Hope this helps.

GLENN

Once upon a time, there was black and white.
Along came red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
Then, there were the mixes of all those colours.
Now, it appears we're back to black and white.
As Mr Spock once said, "fascinating,"

Screens with lines per inch or lines per cm???

Most Belgian stamps printed in lithography now have 150 lines/inch or 60 lines/cm.... They do not give a damn for the hype of using 300/cm or more as some printers do!

In the late twentieth century the only magazines printed with more that 150 lines/inch were these sold under the counter to dirty old men.... In order to be able to count the hairs in certain areas of the body :)