Dare new product release: Soft-touch board
Soft touch finish looks like a standard matte finish, but adds extra depth. Soft touch, or velvet, lamination, appeals to the sense of touch. The smooth velvet feel creates a luxurious experience for anyone holding your product.
Soft touch finish offers more than visual and tactile benefits to your printing, including:
- Additional protection from chipping
- Preventing wear and tear after extended use
- Scratch, scuff, and fingerprint resistance
- Distinct look and feel from non-laminated paper
- Premium finish
- Rubbery feel with extra grip
Many describe it as feeling like a rose petal, short-napped velvet or chamois leather, but regardless of everyone’s interpretation, a soft-touch finish gets your piece noticed and almost always provokes an inquisitive response to its unique and surprising feel.
Many traditional printed pieces, particularly promotional pieces, have a shiny appearance and a slick feel. This is usually attained by the application of a gloss aqueous coating, UV coating, or laminate. Skin feeling, a piece with a soft-touch finish will have a subtle texture with almost no sheen or a matte finish.
If you would like to know more or you have an upcoming project which might be right for a soft-touch application, please contact us.