Holo-Source

United States

Our clear UV casting film is a low cost, environmentally responsible way to add holographic effects to almost any package. This reusable film is easy to use on almost any printing press or offline finishing unit. The process is simple: apply your UV coating to the base substrate, nip on our casting film prior to exposing the UV coating to UV light (causing cross-linking or hardening of the coating), and peel our film away. What is left behind is and reproduction of the holographic image. UV Casting Films are available for most imagery types including holographic & premium lens, and refractive patterns. Products: Our Proprietary Polymeric film is tailored to your application and the desired imagery Advantages: A cost effective way to add holographic and advanced optical accents An environmentally responsible alternative to laminations Offers multiple uses, reducing the amount of material used Proprietary Polymeric film that is tailored to your application and the imagery desired

Conventional holography has a standard 12”, 24”, or 40” repeat line or shim lines. That shim line is an absence of prismatic color and is usually accompanied by a color shift that can be very noticeable on the finished product. With our new Seamless and Super SoftSeam technologies, we’re capable of supplying most products without a shim line or color-shift allowing for increased uptime and a superior product. Seamless pattern films up to ~1.2M (~48.5”) wide Folding carton converters can realize sizable savings Laminators can use one material to service multiple applications More options for roll-fed converters No more ugly seam line Excellent face substrate for PS label converting Seamless papers up to ~1.55M wide (~61”) High-speed application for cut and stack labels More options for roll-fed converters Excellent face substrate for PS label converting Applications: This imagery is ideal for most wallpaper patterns and all converting modalities.

Our cold transfer films are a tailor-made substrates geared toward using the right technology for your application. These materials use a poly film to carry the holographic imagery and, through chemistry, can transfer on-press or offline to your pre-made construction. This transfer process can range from total 100% transfer to partial or spot transfer, allowing for areas of no hologram. This is a true zero-gauge solution. Products: Conventional Holographic Cold Transfer Film (Cold Foil) Full release Transfer Film HyperTransfer for shrink and In-Mold Applications Advantages: Improved run speeds when compared to conventional hot stamping foils. Lower cost to produce than hot stamping foils Adding holography to an already approved substrate or construction without re-qualification Adds a block out layer to clear substrates

Our wide range of holographic paper, polyester, and polypropylene films are ideal for lamination, direct PS coating, and cut and stack applications. Products and Advantages: Lamination Product Solutions from Holo-Source - Seamless_Rainbow_Paper_Label Advanced Optical Paper from 40# to 100# (70gsm to 125gsm) For in-line and off-line narrow and wide web converting Available in totally seamless patterns 55# paper is ideal for direct PS coating

Holo-Source offers an extensive catalog of stock holographic, premium lens, SterlingLens™ & other refractive patterns. Creative services and custom holography also available. Products: Fast custom pattern, registered image design, and customer origination available Confidential marketing & technical assistance available to converters for sales to end-users Creative graphics design, prototyping and proofing available Types of Imagery: Dot matrix (digital) - A design comprising many tiny dots or pixels which are too small to be seen by the naked eye, each of which is a separate hologram which together create a 2D or 3D image. Dot matrix holograms are created on a computerized origination system that exposes one dot, or pixel, at a time. 2D - An image in the two dimensions of length and breadth, normally appearing on the plane of the hologram. 2D3D - Layered 2D images, in which at least one layer seems to lie behind or underneath the other. 3D - An image which has the three dimensions of length, breadth and depth. Stereogram - A hologram produced by recording many individual frames of a sequence of images to provide animation (see above). The original sequence may be photographic film, movie footage, video or computer graphics. Multi-channel - A holographic image in which different, usually unrelated images appear at different viewing angles. The most usual, and easiest to make, is for the images to flip from one to another as the hologram is tilted from side to side. The most difficult is for the image to change as the hologram is rotated. E-beam - Instead of using laser beams to record the hologram in a photo-sensitive emulsion, the very fine beam output of an electron beam generator is used to etch the pattern on the recording medium. This allows very high resolution and complex designs to be made. Composite or combination - It is possible to combine several of these types of image to create composite images, such as a dot matrix combined with a stereogram to give a multi-channel design of different types.