Product — printing and packaging
Lamination & Finishing printing, Kolkata
Finishing decides whether a printed tag survives handling, shipping and the retail shelf. Fotoset laminates, coats, die-cuts and finishes in-house in Kolkata, on the same site as the presses.
Photography, design and artwork, colour scanning, offset printing, lamination and silkscreen printing are all carried out in-house on one site. That single-vendor model is the reason exporters and overseas brands place this work with Fotoset: one purchase order, one plant accountable for the finished item, and no sheets travelling between sub-contractors.
What this item is
- The operations applied after printing: film lamination, coating, foil, embossing, die-cutting, creasing, folding, eyeletting, stitching and binding.
- Because finishing is on the same site as printing, sheets do not leave the building between operations and a colour or register problem is caught before it is laminated in.
Typical applications
- Protecting hang tags and header cards against damp, abrasion and handling
- Matt and soft-touch surfaces on retail cartons and catalogue covers
- Foil and emboss on presentation and gift packaging
- Die-cutting tags, cartons and labels to shape
- Eyeletting and stringing tags ready for the packing line
Substrates and stocks available
- Coated and uncoated board 200 to 450 GSM
- Coated art paper from 90 GSM upward
- Litho-laminated corrugated faces
- Selected films and synthetic stocks
Size and format range
Sheet formats up to the maximum bed size of the finishing equipment. Confirmed against the job at quotation.
Printing process used
- Thermal and wet film lamination in gloss, matt and soft-touch
- Aqueous and UV coating, full-surface or spot
- Hot foil blocking and blind or registered embossing
Finishing options
- Die-cutting, kiss-cutting, creasing and perforating
- Folding, gluing, stapling and saddle stitching
- Round hole punching, euro slot punching and metal eyeletting
- Counting, banding, shrink-wrapping and carton packing
Minimum order quantity and turnaround
Minimum order quantity: to be confirmed. Typical turnaround: to be confirmed. Both are quoted against the specific specification, because they depend on the stock, the number of colours and the finishing. Turnaround is always stated in working days from artwork approval rather than from enquiry.
Artwork requirements and accepted file formats
- Press-ready PDF, version 1.4 or later, with 3 mm bleed on all four sides and crop marks outside the trim.
- Native Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW files accepted, with fonts converted to outlines and linked images embedded.
- Images at 300 dpi at final printed size. Line art and barcode artwork supplied as vector wherever possible.
- Colour built in CMYK. Spot colours called out by Pantone reference in the file and in the purchase order.
- Die line supplied on a separate named layer, in a spot colour set to overprint, not on the artwork layer.
| Lamination | Gloss, matt, soft-touch; single or both sides |
|---|---|
| Coating | Aqueous, UV, full-surface and spot |
| Embellishment | Hot foil, blind and registered emboss |
| Cutting | Die-cut, kiss-cut, crease, perforate |
| Attachment | Punching, euro slot, metal eyelet, string |
| Minimum order quantity | To be confirmed |
| Typical turnaround | To be confirmed |
| Artwork accepted | PDF, AI, EPS with die and foil layers separated |
By industry
Lamination & Finishing by sector
Each page below covers this item as it is specified in that industry: the stock, the marks, the languages and the ordering pattern.