Tipping
We can glue almost any conceivable type of insert directly to the magazine signature, newspaper supplement, brochure, folder, letter, or any other carrier. The tip-ons could be cards, booklets, samples, overlays, envelopes, coins, tokens or any insert that requires gluing to a carrier in order to be transported. We can position them to the outside or to the inside and fold in-line as well.
Companies producing consumer products such as Proctor & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Lever, and Nestle's have recently made major marketing strides in the direction of consumer "product sampling". They will go to ever-increasing lengths to get a sample of toothpaste, shampoo, or textured cloth, to name a few, into the hands of the consumer. This is good news to the graphic arts industry because most of the product samples are tipped into, or inserted into a printed piece.
To facilitate this tip-on market, there is now high tech, high speed, high quality machinery available to tip-on a variety of products. Everything from embossed credit cards, plastic keys, coins, shampoo packs to overwrapped card packages, envelopes and pictures.
The whole tipping process is becoming more competitive and accurate. Machinery is now available in Canada that can glue on and register certain pieces such as plastic credit cards within 1/8 inch accuracy.
The glues being used today, such as fugitive glue can greatly reduce paper tear when the product is removed. Other glues include pressure sensitive glue, hot melt glue and regular cold glue.
Products can be tipped on and the carrier folded once or twice in line, and glued shut (for clip seal sheets) or in-line ink jet addressed and/or bulk boxed or post office bagged.
Our company is getting calls for increasingly tight tolerances, faster turn around and demands for new applications and techniques. Of course, as soon as we conquer one challenge, another looms immediately. There are times when our plant smells like a coffeehouse or Javex or shampoo.
Look for these tip-on product samples in magazines, on store shelves and in your mailbox. Tip-ons have a range that can defy the imagination.
To facilitate this tip-on market, there is now high tech, high speed, high quality machinery available to tip-on a variety of products. Everything from embossed credit cards, plastic keys, coins, shampoo packs to overwrapped card packages, envelopes and pictures.
The whole tipping process is becoming more competitive and accurate. Machinery is now available in Canada that can glue on and register certain pieces such as plastic credit cards within 1/8 inch accuracy.
The glues being used today, such as fugitive glue can greatly reduce paper tear when the product is removed. Other glues include pressure sensitive glue, hot melt glue and regular cold glue.
Products can be tipped on and the carrier folded once or twice in line, and glued shut (for clip seal sheets) or in-line ink jet addressed and/or bulk boxed or post office bagged.
Our company is getting calls for increasingly tight tolerances, faster turn around and demands for new applications and techniques. Of course, as soon as we conquer one challenge, another looms immediately. There are times when our plant smells like a coffeehouse or Javex or shampoo.
Look for these tip-on product samples in magazines, on store shelves and in your mailbox. Tip-ons have a range that can defy the imagination.