hi jenkin
sorry i can’t answer your question, but I’m interested in what
your local printers told you...could you give me the details of
those specific inks?

cheers

This is getting into very specialized territory. One place to start might be to talk to Brady-Palmer, Inc. They are a book jacket & cover printer near New York City. They do amazing things.

http://www.bradypalmer.com/

Also talk to a major ink manufacturer. Find out what their inks can do and then ask them to recommend printers who use those inks. Ask your regular printer who their best ink supplier is.

You will also need to find out if this work needs a special stock.

Keep us posted here.

powers

Here would i found so far...

http://www.screenweb.com/index.php/channel/6/id/1425/

This conversation made me think of the old Transformer emblems on the toys. They were black, but after adding heat (your thumb) they would reveal the Transformer’s party affiliation. Pretty cool.

Can I ask what you’re designing that would require such a unique technique, or is it hush-hush information?

IIRC the Underware foundry printed a book like that as a
specimen for their Sauna typeface, so you could ask them.

hhp

Indeed, Underware uses it in their Sauna typeface specimen. It was printed by a printer in The Netherlands called Ando, in Den Haag (The Hague). So you could either try contacting Underware, or send an email to the printer.

On a sidenote, I’ve also seen something like it on coffee packaging here in the Netherlands, not too long ago. Somekind of promotional thing where there were blank stickers on the packaging, which you had to stick on the outside of your hot coffee cup and a text would appear.

There was a similar thing done on a wine label I saw once. When the wine is stored at the proper temperature, part of the label turns a certain color (blue, I think it was). Don’t recall the winery.

Hey, Will (or Carl or Chris Slye) — I think this might have been that Tempranilla we had at that tapas place in Buffalo; does this ring a bell with you?

— K.

Dammit, Kent, you are right once more! I was just going through all the paper I hauled back from Buffalo and I came across the piece with the notation about that wine. I think I can get my hands on it again, and I think it was the Tempranillo. & I have since seen one other wine label with this feature.

powers

Thank you everyone for the responses. I’ve fired off several emails to some of the resources mentioned above. I’ll keep you updated as I find out more information and when my project is complete I’ll post photos of samples. Unfortunately it is hush hush right now otherwise I’d spill the juice.

Thanks again!

Newcastle Brown ale does (or did, at any rate) do exactly the same thing - the blue star logo on the neck of the bottle only appeared when it had been properly chilled...

@Asvetic: I love the term ’party affiliation’ applied to everyone’s favourite transforming robots. Republicons vs Autocrats! Genius.

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Coors Beer has a similar color changing feature too. The mountains on the label go from white to blue at serving temperature.

The white-to-blue color shifting inks are awesome, but not exactly what I’m looking for. I need clear-(or white)-to-color when heat is applied, not cold.

Well, you might look into whether they go from white-to-blue with cold, or blue-to-white with heat. Could be either.

Sounds cool, good luck on your search.