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MetalFX Helps Make Jay Kay Press a Winner
Wednesday 09. January 2008 - Jay Kay Press recently won Best of Division and Award of Excellence awards in the 2007 Printing and Imaging Association of MidAmerica awards competition.
The Printing and Imaging Association of MidAmerica is the PIA/GATF affiliate for the central United States. The event recognizes excellence in print, and honors those responsible for producing outstanding print communications.
The Best of Division award was granted by an eight-color poster employing MetalFX Silvercoat ink and vignettes of gloss and dull varnish. The Award of Excellence was garnered by their Cotes du Coeur poster, which also used the MetalFX process.
Discussing the awards, Jay Kay Press President John Barry commented: “Winning an award of this stature is testimony to the skill of our talented workforce and the companys commitment to producing the finest printing possible.
Jay Kay Press is a leading midsize commercial printer in the Dallas, Texas, area, specializing in high-end, multicolor printing for corporations, advertising agencies, and MetalFX, a recent Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation acquisition, is a universal process and spot metallic color system that allows millions of metallic colors to be printed, all by adding only the one base silver ink to the usual CMYK mix. Ciba Specialty brings more than 40 years of experience in color matching to the worldwide graphic arts, paints, plastics, fibers and ceramic industries.