Metallic Color

What is Metallic Color on Pouches?

Packaging bags can also achieve a shimmering metallic effect without hot stamping. Metallic inks are used, printed, and then laminated with an aluminum foil layer; these two processes can combine together to create the metallic effect.

Compared to hot stamping, this method allows for larger areas of gold design without additional costs.

The shimmer stays intact even where bags fold, so it’s great for large batch orders. It creates a gentle metallic glow perfect for regular food and supplement packs to stand out on retail shelves.

Popular Metallic Colors

Gold

PANTONE 871 C

Standard Medium Gold

Standard Medium Gold

PANTONE 872 C

Pale Champagne Gold

Pale Champagne Gold

PANTONE 873 C

Deep Antique Bronze

Deep Antique Bronze

PANTONE 874 C

Reddish Copper Gold

Reddish Copper Gold

PANTONE 875 C

Vintage Matte Bronze

Vintage Matte Bronze

PANTONE 10138 C

Premium Champagne Gold

Premium Champagne Gold

Silver Color

PANTONE 10077 C

Premium Bright Silver

Premium Bright Silver

PANTONE 877 C

Standard Bright Silver

Standard Bright Silver

Special Metallic Color

PANTONE 876 C

Rose Gold

Rose Gold

PANTONE 8641 C

Light Rose Gold

Light Rose Gold

PANTONE 8643 C

Antique Rose Bronze

Antique Rose Bronze

PANTONE 8662 C

Metallic Bronze

Metallic Bronze

PANTONE 10148 C

Reddish Gold

Reddish Gold

How to achieve a Metallic effect?

Key Point #1

Golden Ink

Choosing metallic inks is the first step in achieving a metallic texture. Metallic inks have colors close to metal and are formulated without mixing in white ink.

Key Point #3

Partial White Background

Typically, when printing artwork, a white background is added to the packaging bag, meaning a white base is printed.

However, to allow the metallic ink to show through directly through the aluminum plating layer, the areas requiring a metallic effect cannot be printed on a white background; these areas must be left blank.

Key Point #4

Matt or Glossy Surface

Depending on the metallic effect you want, you can choose a glossy or matte film as the printing layer.

Imagine the effect of placing a gold brick in different environments: under sunlight, the gold brick will reflect light strongly and be very dazzling; if placed in a dimly lit room, it will have a dark gold effect.

Key Point #2

Aluminum Foil Layer

To further enhance the luster and texture of the metal, an aluminum plating layer is essential. Metallic inks, penetrating the aluminum plating composite layer, create a very realistic metallic effect.

How to design Metallic Color on your Pouches?

Geometric shapes

Metallic gold ink fills the brand oval on matte purple film. Its soft, even glow draws focus to the brand name without covering the coral patterns. This budget-friendly metallic print suits small-batch organic health food products perfectly.

Full Background

The whole bag uses metallic gold ink as its base background, letting black unicorn graphics stand out sharply. This full shiny surface gives limited-edition packs a bold eye-catching look, costing far less than full foil stamping.

Texts

Metallic gold ink forms the big title words and horseshoe graphic on muted green material. This gentle metallic tone matches the gold-lucky theme, lays smoothly over large print areas and won’t crack when the pouch folds.

Contrast gold color

Metallic gold ink runs along the whole side panel of this milk powder bag. Wide shiny surfaces lift the premium dairy feel, sticks well with aluminum lamination and holds up well during shipping and long storage.

Pouch Customization Options

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