
Recently I was helping my friend to design her wedding card. We want to make it special, different from the usual ones. Therefore, we look for various website to find directions for designing our card. After writing the content, the next step is to make it real - print it out! It's not an easy task at first. Cause the material of wedding card is special, the normal printer can't print the images and words properly. Also, we want our designs can pop out! Finally, we find a good way for printing beatiful wedding card. It's called hot stamping printing technique.
Hot
stamping is a dry printing method in which a heated die and foil are used to
apply graphics to a surface. This is one method of security printing. It uses
heat and metallic film in a specialty printing process that produces a shiny
design on paper, vinyl, textiles, wood, hard plastic, leather, and other
materials. Hot stamping, also called foil stamping, can
be combined with dimensional embossing to make letters and images on business
cards, book covers, gift cards, office folders, and a whole host of
professional or personal items.
It is
a straightforward process in the following three aspects: first of all, a die
is mounted and heated. Secondly, foil is positioned above the material to be
imprinted. Finally, a combination of heat, dwell time, pressure and stripping
time control the quality of the stamp. Foil stamping is environmentally
friendly due to it being a dry process. It does not use solvents or inks and
does not create any harmful vapors. A successful hot stamping job is directly
related to the quality of the original artwork. In order to insure the highest
quality reproduction of an imprint, the original artwork should be
“camera-ready”. The better the artwork at the beginning, the better the imprint
reproduction result.
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