Stationary Produced by Printing Companies

Inkaren

愛書的人看到印刷加工連的宣傳錄像時,心裡都有微小的撼動吧。為書背仔細地塗漿糊、用大頭針固定紙咭的位置,以凸版印刷壓上了品牌的標記⋯⋯製作一本書籍時,平常難得看到的印刷以外的各個工序,都仔細地記錄下來。

印刷加工連是由六家印刷品製作公司組成的連盟,他們各具專長,特殊印刷技術、糊膠釘裝法、壓印、活版印刷、環圈釘裝等等,他們結合起來,以其精湛的技術,一直創造了同名紙品品牌「印刷加工連」,而其宣傳錄像記錄的,正是旗下紙品商品的生產過程。

「印刷加工連」暫時商品數目不多,只有五款而已,當中包括了以糊膠釘裝法製作的便條紙、熨印了紅色箔紙的小信封、環圈釘裝的筆記本、裝了銀色箔紙的信紙,以及凸版印刷了「印刷加工連」的商標的紙製萬字夾。設計造形非常簡單,但六個出色的製作公司,憑著其高質素的技術,令每件製品都有出眾的質感。喜歡紙製品及印刷的話,定會想將之全部擁有。

The promotional video by Inkaren would surely strike a chord with book lovers. In the clip, there are scenes of workers carefully applying glue to the book’s spine, fixing the card position with pins, printing the brand logo with letterpress printing, etc. All these procedural steps of producing a book that are usually overlooked have been so concretely recorded by this video.

Inkaren is an association of six paper product companies that specialize in different fields including bookbinding, folding, stitching, die cutting, hot stamping and letterpress printing. Together, they collectively contribute their extraordinary techniques to the brand Inkaren. The promotional video is a documentation of the companies producing paper products under the name of Inkaren.

Inkaren currently has a rather limited catalog that features merely five products, namely the adhesive notepad, the envelope with a red foil stamp, the spiral-bound notebook, the silver foil stamped letter-sized paper, and the paper clip with the Inkaren logo that is made by letterpress printing on card stock. Design of these products is simple, but with the outstanding technique of the six companies, the impressive texture and quality can easily be observed from the five items. Fans of paper products and printing technique would be tempted to own all of them.

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