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Texture: The Final Frontier

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Texture: The Final Frontier

• Laminate textures have long been considered the final frontier in decorative surface design, because no matter how realistic a printed decor layer is, the wrong choice of surface texture (heavy stippling over a fine woodgrain, for instance) will negatively impact the realism of the finished laminate.  Surface textures, imparted by engraved press plates and textured release papers, have become far more realistic in the last decade. It is now possible to create the smooth, silky warmth of finished wood or the high- and low-gloss variations of granite so accurately that even experts can be fooled. 

• Press plates may be engineered to create textures embossed “in register” with the print design for enhanced realism in the surface. In woodgrains, for example, the grain texture aligns perfectly with the printed wood ticking. In stones, variations in gloss levels match up with the compositional details in the print.

• As with digital print cylinder engraving, new digital press plate engraving technologies have increased the quality and realism of the final texture, as well as the ability to replace plates with exact copies, should one get damaged during use. 

Read CLOSETS magazine article about 3D Laminates.

Source: Kenn Busch, materialintelligence.com


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