Re-using and ‘jigsawing’ photopolymer plates
Does anyone have any tips for how you would go about this scenario?
If you had a range of ‘template’ invitation designs (i.e. clients customise the text part of the invitation but the artwork/illustration portion remains the same from job to job), would you need to get a whole new plate made each time for each individual client with their specific text details?
Or could you get a photopolymer made with the standard ‘template’ artwork that won’t change from job to job (i.e. the illustration portion), cut it up and piece those parts together with a new plate that has the client’s particular text details for that job?
I guess what I’m trying to ask is if I can get more than one use out of a plate when reprints will be the same ‘design’, just different text areas.
Does that even make sense?! Hope so and apologies if not!
Thanks in advance.
yes, you can reuse your plates. i’ve had some adhesive problems with some of mine after repeated use though, which really destroys them (am i alone in this? i might be)… regardless, i ‘cut and paste’ a lot even if just for a fun project. it can work.
i’d definitely like to hear input from others on this, along with good ways to preserve the plates.
Boxcar sells adhesive to reback you plates. Usually I have one plate that is the art sno one that is the text. You just get a new text plate and your good. The plate containing the design elements can be reused.
I have used the same art on multiple jobs before I need to have a plate remade.
cody
Thanks so much cody and littlemisspress - very helpful!
Would definitely work out a lot cheaper if I could re-use the design part of the plate and just do new plates for the text areas.
Thanks again.