DECORATING & LABELING

Our Decorating Capabilities

Parkway has extensive printing and decorating experience that has met the needs of even our highest quality conscious customers.

Up to 5 Color Offset Printing

Our high speed Offset Printing Presses utilize the latest in printing technology.

In the offset printing process, ink is transferred from the printing plate onto a rubber blanket and then onto the jar of your choice. Offset printing is very exact and so it is ideal for multi color applications. In offset printing, a plate is needed for each color used in the artwork. Each plate costs $150.00 and can be used for the life of the product line (unless non-color changes are made to the artwork).

One of the biggest differences between Offset Printing and Silk Screen Printing, other than the process itself, is the type of ink used. Offset Printing Ink is transparent and so it is perfect for white and other opaque containers, however this printing method may appear to be "washed out" on natural or other translucent containers. If you are looking for bold graphics, and your container is natural or translucent, we recommend that you take a look at our silk screening options.

Another distinguishing characteristic of offset printing is that the ink is flush with the printing surface or container.

Prices for minimum runs of 50,000 pcs or more can be found on our price list. Smaller runs often can be done, but are done on a quotation by quotation basis only.

Up to 5 Color Silk Screening

Screen printing is also widely used by our customers. This method is popular because it offers a variety of decorating effects.

A screen is made using the reverse image of the artwork supplied by the customer from various photographic techniques. The plain areas (or non decorated areas) in the artwork are blocked out by on the screen. Ink is then forced through the "open" areas of the photographically treated screen. Each color is applied in a separate pass. With each new color, a new screen (separate pass) is required. Screen charges are $150.00 per color. Prices for minimum runs of 50,000pcs or more can be found on our price list. Smaller runs often can be done, but are done on a quotation by quotation basis only.

Silk screening allows for bold designs as the ink that is used is thicker and more opaque in appearance than the ink used in Offset Printing. The Silk Screen printing is also noticibly raised to the touch the same way that engraving would be. The downside to Silk Screen Printing is that it can not be used to print detailed artwork. If your artwork has a lot of detail or shading consider offset printing or labeling.

Flame Treating

All Items Printed by PPI are flame treated where necessary. Items not printed by PPI may be flame treated at $30.00/m per pass for sizes up to 58mm, $35.00/m per pass for 63mm to 89mm, $45.00/m per pass for 100mm to 120mm. Flame Treating is a TEMPORARY process, Jars should be labeled or Printed on as soon as possible. Minimum run 50,000pcs or more.

Thick Wall Jar Frosting

Thick Wall Jar Frosting is the practice of making a shiny plastic container matte in appearance by putting the jar in contact with a flame. Similar to flame treating, but the jar is held closer to the flame for a longer period of time so that the plastic is actually singed. Frosting can be thought of as a subtractive process, one in which small quantities of the surface are removed, leaving behind a disrupted plastic surface. These disruptions cause light that passes through or reflect off the jar and become diffused. It is this diffusion which makes the jar look frosty. The downside to this is that the matte finish can sometimes be uneven in appearance. While this is negligible on Natural or Transparent jars, this becomes much more obvious on opaque jars and is therefore not recommended. Parkway offers Thick Wall Jar Frosting on items for 40.00/m from 33mm to 58mm, 60.00/m from 63 through 89mm, and 65.00/m for 100mm through 120mm. Minimum run 50,000pcs or more.

Decorative Jar Coatings

Parkway Plastics is now please to offer you consistent scratch and scuff resistant durable coatings that can be applied to any jar and cap that Parkway sells. Unlike frosting, these coatings are actually applied to the jar during as a decorating process. Available coatings include Spray Frost, Soft-Touch and Translucent and Opaque Tints and are the ultimate in decadence and high-end luxury. Once the coating is applied to the jar or cap, the jar and cap can then be decorated using any one of the methods mentioned above.

Hot Stamping

Hot stamping is the technique of applying a specific colored foil to the jar or caps surface through the use of heat, pressure and dies. This is one of the most popular and elegant methods to achieve a 'shiny' metallic print. Foil is usually gold or silver but other colors are variable. Hot stamping can be rolled onto a container, as in the application of 360° bands or as a straight stamp.

Pad Printing

Parkway Plastics also offers Pad Printing as an efficient way to decorate caps. Pads receive ink for a print station and selectively apply color to a particular area, regardless of the contour. Through the use of several pads in series, pad printing offers multi color decoration.

Lead Times for all decorated orders is 4-6 weeks from approval of camera ready artwork by all parties. Artwork approval is extremely important for packaging quality and can also be time consuming.

Printing Set Up Charges will apply on decorated jar orders under 50,000 pieces. The standard Print Setup Charge at Parkway is $375.

We now offer Labeling Services!

The labels that our jars accept are called "Smilex" labels because they are shaped like an upside down smile. Our jars require the use of this particular wrap label because our jars have a slight taper to them that make labeling them a little bit more tricky. Labeling is a great decorating method though because it is reasonably inexpensive and can be as detail oriented and have as many colors as you like.

Digital labels are usually the least expensive option and are perfect for smaller runs because they can be run at mulitples of a 1,000 or so making it possible for you to grow and change labels with your product line as your business changes.

As your run sizes get larger and your products mature, there are also other custom printed pressure sensitive label options available. There are a wide selection of custom label shapes, sizes, and label materials out there. Label stocks can include paper, vinyl, mylar, foil, polypropylene, and recylclable label materials. Labels can also be created in a custom shape using a custom die.

While we do not create labels in house, we would be more than happy to put you in touch with a labeling company, like Consolidated, and once your labels are created we would be happy to apply them for you. For more information, please call (732)752-3636 x 107.

What is Offset Printing?

Offset Printing is a high-speed, economical printing method for jars. In this method Ink is transferred first from each color plate in sequence to a rubber blanket, and then, when all colors are "stacked" on this blanket, the complete image is transferred from the blanket to the surface of the jar. The plate is mounted on the ink fountain and the rubber blanket is mounted on the offset cylinder. The surface, after being flame treated in preparation, picks up the image as it passes between the rubber blanket and an impression cylinder. Offset Printing is economical for the long run, but does include some up front charges to create the needed metal artwork.

Offset Printing is a very nice process leaving the ink flush with the wall of the jar. However, since all offset inks are transparent, the colors only appear opaque on white or light colored substrates. If you need opaque ink on clear or dark colors, then you would want to use silk screening.

What is Silk Screening?

In Silk Screening an image is transferred to the printed surface by ink, which is pressed through a stenciled screen. This stencil is created by coating the "screen" with a light sensitive emulsion and then "contact printing" a film positive on the screen. The "development" of the screen causes the emulsion to be washed away in the areas that were exposed to light, leaving a porous area for the ink to flow though.

What is Flame Treating & When Would I Need It?

Flame treating is the process of passing the jar surface to be printed in front of a very intense flame, under precisely controlled conditions in order to prepare the surface for printing. If you plan on printing on the jar we would recommend having the jars flame treated in house.

What is Frosting?

Frosting is a process similar to flame treating, only it is done to give the jar a decorative matte finish.

What is the difference between "Frosted" and "Frostique"?

Frostique is an in mold process to give a matte surface to the jars. It can not be done to any jar in stock, the jars must be "made" as "Frostique" jars. Frostique jars will normally have to be flame treated if they are to be printed. Frostique jars are carried in stock in 2oz 53mm Thick Wall Natural and 4oz 70mm Thick Wall Natural.

If decoration is something you are interested in pursuing with Parkway Plastics please feel free to give us a call with any questions you may have to help you through this process at (732) 752-3636 x 0.

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