Suitable for Framing

Creative Design

Diamond's award-winning team collaborated to develop another beautifully-decorated structural and ornamental piece:

• The dimensional picture frame encloses four (4) pieces of art and features side closures with locking tabs, allowing the recipient to change the artwork, depending on style or mood.
• Specialty printing and coating effects combined with intricate embossing details create visual interest.
• All cutting dies and counter plates were made in-house by the skillful hands of experienced craftspeople, ensuring the accuracy of each die.

Four Color Offset Printing

Four-color process printing delivers the WOW factor on the calendar and the pages:

• The calendars were converted utilizing Clearwater ReMagine™ 30% PCW paperboard, cold foiled, and offset printed with four color process inks, supplied by Ink Systems, in-line with UV matte, UV gloss, and DiamondTexture specialty coatings.
• Diamond employed its new Heidelberg XL 106 10-color offset printing press, which represents the state-of-the-art in package printing technology, providing an unprecedented combination of cost innovation and sustainability.
• It features Prinect Inpress Control – the completely in-line spectrophotometer that measures and controls color and registers on press at any speed.

UV and Specialty Coatings

Tightly-registered coatings were used to enhance the design and highlight the individual calendar components:

• UV matte coating was used on the museum walls.
• UV satin coating was used on wainscoting, molding, and text to add contrast.
• Specialty coating was applied on The Starry Night painting, giving dimension to the brush strokes.
• Two coatings were applied on the Landscape painting for a subtle contrast between the color and white areas
• DiamondTexture specialty coating was applied to the sand in the Figures on the Beach painting to create haptic feedback.

Cold Foil

Cold foil is a cost effective, in-line alternative to metallized polyester film or specialty foil board. Overprinting offers a limitless palette of color options. Precise registration was maintained between the foil and overprinted inks and coatings:

• Silver cold foil, supplied by Univacco, delivers shimmering metallic effects on the gilded gold picture frame and Diamond Packaging text.
• Holographic "wave pattern" cold foil, supplied by Kurz, adds more realism to the water in the Boating painting.

Embossing and Debossing

Multi-level embossing lends distinction and depth to the design:

• Many of the calendar components were embossed, including the picture frame, wainscoting, molding, and leather benches.
• Multi-level embossing was tastefully applied to individual artwork pieces to add even more depth.
• The visual and tactile effects promote consumer interaction.

Calendar Pages

• The calendar pages were converted utilizing Domtar Cougar Smooth 80# Text paper and offset printed with four color process inks and UV matte coating.

• The watermarks of a museum gallery setting adds realism.
• The unique finish and subtle colors beautifully complement the design concept.

Shipper

• The recyclable shipper was converted utilizing Clearwater Candesce® SBS paperboard laminated to E-flute corrugated fiberboard, and offset printed with four color process inks, in-line with aqueous gloss coating.
• It was designed to maintain integrity of the piece during shipping and storage.
• It artfully depicts a wooden shipping crate used by museums for shipping masterpieces.

Sustainable by Design

• The calendar was produced utilizing ReMagine™ paperboard made with 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR) fiber.
• In-line converting techniques minimize material and energy costs associated with multiple runs or off-line production processes.
• Paperboard components were manufactured using 100% clean, renewable wind energy and produced in a Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL) and Carbon Neutral (Scope 1 and Scope 2) facility.