Studio Workshop: Defining Print Quality

Low Quality Category

Medium Quality Category

High quality Category

As decided by us as a group 
High

• High quality Stock
• Sustainability
• Luxurious imagery 
• Durability qualities 
• Net Complexity 
• Colour 
• Print Processes such as foiling and embossing
• Functional products

Medium

• Durable
• Mundane
• Familiarity To Design (we become familiar to some design we see day in day out)
• Ephemera
• Disposability 
• Bad designs
• Functional

Low (Poor Quality)

• Looking Mass-Produced
• Poor Quality images 
• Mimicry of higher quality products 
• Overcrowded designs and typography 
• Sometimes Gaurish Colours (In Context)

As decided by year
High Quality Print

• Nice feeling stock
• Sustainability
• Aesthetic that looks and appears expensive, although it my it not be, creating an illusion
• Durability
• Net complexity

Medium Quality

• Disposability
• Good durability but design doesn't match
• Familiarity
• The stock maybe mundane and the design is not appealing to the consumer nor aesthetically pleasing
• Imitative

Low Quality

• Over crowding of the design, use of bold colours that are often not complementary and use of a number for of fonts, often three or more
• Looks and appears mass produced
• Poor quality images, especially within food packaging
• Attempts mimicry of higher quality products
• The packaging is either not needed or excessive packaging has been used

Contextual to quality 

• Colour