Five Kinds of Hot Stamping Method
Foil stamping processing has been a very common part of the printed materials, and the technology is very mature. The following for you to introduce the five kinds of hot stamping method, these five kinds of processing can be used in printing, and each has different characteristics, you can with different designs to choose different hot stamping method.
First, Flat Stamping
Flat stamping is the most commonly used stamping method, only the content to be stamped will have metal, other places for the white or printed content. The purpose of flat stamping is to highlight the location of the hot stamping mainly, the most important information will be hot stamping on the gold color. Compared to other processes, such as reverse stamping and multiple stamping, flat foil stamping is less difficult and the chance of error is relatively low. In addition, because it is the simplest stamping process, the loss of paper will be less.
Second, Reverse Stamping
Reverse stamping for the opposite of flat stamping, with metal hollowing to highlight the position of the white space, stamping part is used to set off. The usual practice will be to use a large graphic surrounded by graphics to highlight the text, surrounded by graphics will be hot stamping and to highlight the text on the hollow out, thus forming the effect of reverse stamping. When doing reverse stamping, if the area of gold foil lining is large, the price will be higher. And the lines of the graphic to be highlighted can not be too thin (need to be 6pt or more), otherwise the effect of the finished product will be unsatisfactory.
If the use of special paper stamping, you need to take into account the characteristics of the paper grain and so on, if the surface is not smooth paper, it is not very recommended to use the reverse stamping, because the fineness of the large area stamping is easy to be affected by the effect of the paper grain.
Third, Printing and Stamping Overlap
Printing and hot stamping overlap is a very test of the master's skills in the processing technology, its printing design is cleverly combining hot stamping and printing color. The master will first do the printing, and then while hot stamping, hot stamping process on the location of the higher degree of accuracy, but the effect of the finished product is first-class printing, playful. This practice is not only a test of the master's skills, but also a test of the designers phase color matching thinking.
Fourth, Multi-color Hot Stamping
There are many designers in order to highlight the graphic, will be in the same graphic stamping twice or more, this we call multicolor hot stamping. This stamping method also requires high precision stamping method, and printing and stamping overlap is similar, printing and stamping overlap is the color and stamping, and multi-color stamping is a variety of stamping color overlap. When there are a variety of colors to do multiple stamping process, you need to pay attention to the location of stamping and the compatibility of the gold foil. If the designer sets the distance between the two foils too short when designing, there will be a chance that the two colors will be glued together.
Fifth. Three-dimensional Hot Stamping
The combination of hot stamping and embossing process is three-dimensional hot stamping, so that the part of the hot stamping is raised, and form a three-dimensional relief effect. However, it should be noted that the back of the three-dimensional stamping will have a concave effect, so remember to leave the reverse side of the design, otherwise the graphics or text will be affected.
