Different Types of Foil Stamping
The experienced printers always compare different types of foil stamping according to the type and appearance of the finished product.
If the finished design needs to look like rising slightly on the original surface, the printers opt for flat foil stamping as simple and cost-effective printing techniques. On the other hand, they opt for sculpted or multilevel foil stamping when they need to produce distinct and appealing results. Sculpted foil stamping requires them to carve the sculpted dies with hands. Likewise, the printers also use vertical and peripheral foil stamping degree of the circumference to be stamped.
Pros and Cons of Foil Stamping Like other printing processes, foil printing also has its own pros and cons. As foil stamping does not require printers to use ink, the color of the foil need not change according to color. The printers can stamp appealing designs on dark or colored papers using a light or metallic color foil. They even have the option to choose from a variety of foils – glossy, metallic, holographic, pearlescent and semi-transparent – to complement the specific paper color. But foil stamping, unlike conventional printing procedures, is labor intensive. The printers have to put extra time and effort to reproduce multi-color designs. Also, they need to exercise adequate caution to prevent the thermographic resins from melting while applying heat.
On the whole, foil stamping is a special type of printing process that enables printers to stamp varied designs and graphics on papers without using ink. Superfast Copying & Binding can reproduce varying and multi-color designs by combining metal/foil films, heat, and pressure.
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