Commercial Printing: Elevate Your Annual Reports with Modern Finishing Techniques

Annual reports are more than just a summary of your company's financials—they're an opportunity to tell your brand's story, showcase achievements, and leave a lasting impression on stakeholders. In today's competitive landscape, standing out requires going beyond the basics. Adding modern finishing techniques to your annual reports can turn them into polished, professional, and memorable works of art.

At SunDance, we specialize in helping brands elevate their print materials, and we're here to share five impactful finishing techniques that can transform your annual reports from standard to standout.

Concept to Completion: Making a Custom Holiday Gift

At SunDance, we are excited to share the process behind our Holiday Popcorn Kit for 2023. We want to take you behind the scenes and pull the curtain back on the step-by-step process of how we brought this delightful holiday gift to life. From concept to completion, we'll provide insight into each component and the meticulous attention to detail that goes into creating a successful client holiday gift that doubles as a promotional product. If you plan to create a Holiday Gift for clients in 2024, we hope this lends some creative inspiration to your process.

Awards: Celebrating Excellence at the 2023 Florida Print Awards

SunDance Triumphs with 29 Awards!

As we reflect on our exceptional showing at the 2023 Florida Print Awards, we can't help but feel an overwhelming sense of pride and gratitude. The theme of 'The Greatest Printer' stood out to us because it perfectly captures the essence of what we stand for at SunDance - wholehearted dedication, unwavering excellence, and an insatiable hunger for greatness.

Excellence in Finishing: SunDance's Impressive Wins at FSEA Gold Leaf Awards 2023

Continuing our tradition of excellence in the printing and embellishing fields, SunDance was recently honored with two Silver Leaf Awards at the 30th Annual FSEA Gold Leaf Awards Competition.

Held every June, the Gold Leaf Awards is an international competition celebrating the best in specialty print embellishments, finishing, and binding techniques, hosted by the Foil and Specialty Effects Association. This year's awards were of special importance, as it was the 30th year the celebration was hosted. 

SunDance is pleased to add to our collection of gold, silver, and bronze awards from FSEA. Take a look at this year's award-winning entries below or check out our past award winners here. 

Cold Foil Stamping: The Cool & Quick Way to Add Appeal to Your Brand

You've spent precious time and money building a brand you're proud of. And when it comes to your marketing and packaging, you want to guarantee that you've got a design that will catch the eye of your ideal customer. One of the easiest ways to achieve this is by adding a cool touch to your design with cold foil stamping. We caught up with one of our resident Packaging Experts, Michael Stephens, to answer some of the most frequently asked questions he has come across about Cold Foil Stamping. 

You’ve Designed a Great Flexible Pouch. Now What? How to Choose the Perfect Flexible Pouch Finish!

Flexible packaging is increasingly about pouch packaging. That’s because flexible pouches can accommodate a wide variety of products, ship them securely, and display them impressively on store shelves. Pouches offer numerous options for interesting shapes, folds, openings, and closures, as well as printing in a full spectrum of colors, including images and text.

SunDance Shines at FSEA Gold Leaf Awards 2022

SunDance sparkled at the Foil & Specialty Effects Association (FSEA) 29th Annual Gold Leaf Awards, taking home a silver and a bronze for demonstrating excellence in foil embossing and diecutting. The Gold Leaf Awards is an international competition celebrating the best in print embellishments, finishing and binding.

What is Holographic Foil?

Holographic foil adds additional value, flair, and movement to your product. Typically, holographic foil can be applied to most surfaces to achieve the look you desire. Creating a holographic foil print is very similar to another product we offer, metallic foil, but includes an additional embossed pattern that refracts the light.  A holographic foil piece is fluid and glittering, showing the different colors of the spectrum at every angle you turn your piece. Your pattern can be a custom based on your particular project design, or you can use traditional patterns and styles like stars, hearts, rainbows, stripes, etc.

2020 FSEA Gold Leaf Awards

The Foil & Specialty Effects Association (FSEA) has announced the honorees in its 27th Annual FSEA Gold Leaf Awards Competition, and we are so proud of the 2 Gold Leaf Awards we received this year:

Best Use of Foil/Embossing: Silver Leaf Award

Best Use of Special Diecut: Silver Leaf Award

The typical awards presentation would have occurred during an in-person conference event however, this year the FSEA released a video awards presentation to honor the winners as a part of the FSEA Online Learning Experience. This year saw entries come in from across the world—including the US, Canada, Denmark and Taiwan. A panel of industry expert judges chose the projects that best demonstrated excellence in foil stamping, specialty coating, laser cutting, embossing, die-cutting and more. The competition also celebrates the ways these specialty finishing techniques add quality, value, security, aesthetic appeal and brand recognition to the print medium.

As always, SunDance is dedicated to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge solutions for each and every one of our clients. We are so proud to be recognized as pioneers in specialty finishing techniques and effects as we continue to create, innovate and bring your most ambitious print projects to life.