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Varnish effects

With effect coatings, you can have your print products finished in a variety of ways:

Simsa UV coating Standard in screen printing quality

The high-gloss varnish coating for maximum matte/gloss contrasts on your printed matter! Whether it’s a champagne glass, the new car model or your company logo, this high-gloss UV coating lets you effectively set off important image elements from the background, which remains matte. This way you emphasize what is really important! At the same time, the water-wet sheen of the UV coating brings a positive freshness to your image.

In addition to the visible and tactile enhancement of printed products, UV coatings are also popular in security printing. They serve as a cost-effective entry-level counterfeit protection, since they cannot be reproduced by color copiers or conventional printing presses.

Simsa “UV Varnish PLUS”©

As before, but additionally with a higher coating layer, already easy to notice with your fingertip, to additionally appeal to the sense of touch.

Relief varnish for tactile prints

The coating with the maximum three-dimensional effect in print.

Our tip: Prefer to design with many finer elements and spaces in between. This way, the fingertips experience a memorable, tactile up and down roller coaster ride when touching your print product.

In addition to high-gloss, relief laquer coating is also available in a matte version. With this, you can discreetly and realistically bring the feel of natural surfaces to paper. For example, you can print the grain of a wooden board, tree bark, or the knobs of a basketball in a very lifelike manner.

Simsa glitter varnish

Want a little glitter and glamour for your printed communication? We conjure up sun glitter, reflective ice crystals and star sparkle for you! Find out more about our glitter coating here.

Simsa “Colorlack” varnish

Tinted gloss varnish coating with color shades for additional visual enhancement of a coating images. Available in many color shades, but always with a transparent view onto the printed image.

Simsa “Good Lack” varnish effect

Microfine lacquer structures from our “Good Lack” patterns catalog invite you to create eye-catching graphic designs. In addition, images of objects can be visually enhanced with fine details, such as fabric weaves or audio record grooves.

Simsa structure varnish “The Rough”

The effect varnish for imitating rough surfaces such as concrete, asphalt, sandpaper, stone or masonry: We print natural structures using UV varnish with coarse particles in thick-layer screen printing quality. Make your images look even more lifelike.

Simsa lemon peel varnish “Lack Orange” and water imitation varnish “Wet Look”

Have images of peels of citrus fruits, such as oranges or lemons, printed lifelike. Imitate rain-soaked surfaces in your printing. With us you get the solution to do so.

Anti-counterfeiting varnish / black light lacquer

This varnish, which is barely noticeable in normal light , suddenly glows neon under bill validators and “black light” from discotheques. More information on this can be found in the section on effect colors.

Scented coatings

Conjure up fragrant scents printed on paper. You can find more info at the item Scent Printing.

Possible materials

We finish almost all of our coating effects for you onto a variety of materials:

Coated paper and cardboard
Uncoated uncoated paper and cardboard
Matt film laminated paper and cardboard
Cardboard and paperboards up to several millimeters thickness
Self-adhesive films
Various plastic substrates