It's Timeless

Creative Design

Diamond's award-winning team created an exquisitely crafted structural and ornamental piece:

• The header showcases five (5) interchangeable clock face designs, giving recipients the flexibility to match their personal style or interior decor.
• Advanced printing, specialty coating, and foiling effects combined with intricate embossing details create striking depth and visual interest.
• All cutting dies and counter plates were made in-house by the skillful hands of experienced craftspeople, ensuring the accuracy of each die.

Four Color Offset Printing

Four-color process printing delivers the WOW factor on the calendar and the pages:

• The calendars were converted utilizing Clearwater ReMagine™ 30% PCW paperboard, cold foiled, and offset printed with four color process and three PMS inks, supplied by Ink Systems, in-line with UV matte, UV gloss, reticulated, and MotionCoat® specialty UV coating.
• The clock faces were cold foiled and offset printed with semi-transparent inks to create remarkably lifelike detail that makes you question whether time has truly stood still.
• Diamond employed its new Heidelberg XL 106 10-color offset printing press, which represents the state-of-the-art in package printing technology, providing an unprecedented combination of cost innovation and sustainability.

UV and Specialty Coatings

Tightly-registered coatings were used to enhance the design and highlight the individual calendar components:

• UV matte varnish was used throughout the design.
• UV gloss coating was used on all foiled areas.
• Reticulated specialty coating was applied to the dark areas behind the weights and pendulum.
• The woodgrain features MotionCoat® specialty UV coating, supplied by ACTEGA, that creates dramatic, motion-like visual effects.

Cold Foil

Cold foil is a cost effective, in-line alternative to metallized polyester film or specialty foil board. Overprinting offers a limitless palette of color options. Precise registration was maintained between the foil and overprinted inks and coatings:

• Silver cold foil, supplied by Kurz, delivers shimmering metallic effects on all of the clock faces, weights, and pendulum.
• The components were cold foiled and offset printed with semi-transparent inks to create stunning shades of gold and bronze.

Embossing and Debossing

Multi-level embossing lends distinction and depth to the design:

• Multi-level embossing and debossing was tastefully applied to the calendar to add depth and realism.
• Many of the grandfather clock components were embossed, including the wood frame, door, clock faces, weights, and pendulum.
• The Diamond Packaging text and year were debossed to create more depth,
• The visual and tactile effects promote consumer interaction.

Calendar Pages

• The calendar pages were converted utilizing Domtar Cougar Smooth 80# Natural Text paper and offset printed with four color process inks and UV matte coating.

• The watermarks of the weights and pendulum setting add realism.
• The unique finish and subtle colors beautifully complement the design concept.

Shipper

• The recyclable shipper was converted utilizing Clearwater Candesce® SBS paperboard laminated to E-flute corrugated fiberboard, and offset printed with four color process inks, in-line with aqueous gloss coating.
• It was designed to maintain integrity of the piece during shipping and storage.

• The structural design replicates the wooden shipping crates used to transport grandfather clocks.

• A 10th Anniversary Edition logo is "branded" into the woodgrain finish.

Sustainable by Design

• The calendar was produced utilizing ReMagine™ paperboard made with 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR) fiber.
• In-line converting techniques minimize material and energy costs associated with multiple runs or off-line production processes.
• Paperboard components were manufactured using 100% clean, renewable wind energy and produced in a Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL) and Carbon Neutral (Scope 1 and Scope 2) facility.