wedding invitation paper
How do you like printing on Rives BFK? This is a hybrid job with full color illustration printing digitally or glicee (please recommend which would be better) and then I will imprint type on the Vandercook. I’ve never done this before and am worried about keeping the quality of the glicee or digitally-printed watercolor. I need 75-80 cards (not folded) on BFK Rives 280gsm.
Are you doing the digital printing yourself? I haven’t printed on Rives with a digital method. If you are sending it out I would talk to your printer about what they can run. I have had digital Indigo prints on Savoy cotton paper, then imprinted the letterpress portion afterwards with great success.
Worth repeating that giclee is also digital printing, it is just inkjet printing with a fancy price tag. Both digital (laser) and giclee (inkjet) are coming from a “digital matrix” aka. PNG-file.
Laser prints will have a shiny surface at an angle even on cotton paper because printer toner is melted plastic powder, and large solids can appear blotchy on uncoated stock, so if reproducing a watercolor illustration, I’d go for the inkjet print, although it is likely to be more expensive.
Printing inkjet on cotton stock is not unusual, it is a common service for a lot of repro places. A lot of shops will be hesitant (or refuse) to run these types of papers through their laser press. They tend to struggle both with very stiff and very soft papers.