MetalFX® Technology is a Universal Process and Spot Metallic Colour System that allows millions of metallic colours to be printed, all by adding only the one MetalFX® base silver ink to the usual CMYK mix.

Previously, if a client required more than one metallic colour in their print job, the corresponding amount of spot colour inks would have to take up an extra colour pass each (one for gold, one for silver, one for metallic blue and so on). Due to the added expense, printers would often have to compromise or disappoint clients that wanted to use multiple metallic colours.

MetalFX®, however, enables an unlimited amount of metallic colours to be printed all at once and at no extra cost. All that is needed is a five-colour press. The process is therefore inspiring to designers, economical for brand owners and easy for printers, of which hundreds are enquiring about MFX® Licenses worldwide.

MetalFX® is a revolutionary concept for the printing industry and was born from an idea to create dazzling print effects, whilst minimising the cost implications often associated with the printing of metallic colours.

The system incorporates MetalFX® colour palettes in the form of a metallic colour swatch book and plug-in software which has been translated into a range of libraries for mainstream software such as Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Artpro®, Indesign® and PageMaker®, as well as Macromedia Freehand® and Quark_Xpress™.