Screen Design Limited

Screen Printing

Portland Place

Portland Road

London

SE25 4PE

Tel: 0208 653 1459

Fax: 0208 653 9732

sales@screendesign.co.uk

SCRATCHCARDS AND SCRATCHCARD PRINTING

One key area of our business is overprinting litho-printed and digitally printed sheets with a rub removable silver or gold opaque ink, that can be scratched off, either with a coin or fingernail. This process is most often used on promotional scratchcards or high security products. It is worth noting that for us to successfully produce a scratchcard there are a number of factors that the printer should be aware of:

• Sheets should be printed, varnished and be properly dry (2-3 days) prior to applying the rub removable ink.

• It is best to avoid absorbent stocks as this will impair the removability of the ink, although this can be overcome by us applying a screen printed varnish or lamination first. This is also the case with digitally printed sheets.

• Where possible, the printer should try to keep the image that we would be trying to `hide` with the rub removable ink as subtle as possible, because the greater the contrast between the background and image, the harder the image is to `hide`.
For further advice please call 0208 653 1459 and we will be happy to assist.