Foiling

Add a touch of class to your print – any of our products can be foiled adding an extra special finish. Wide range of foils available – metallic, satin, sheen, gloss pigment, florescent, matt pigment, gloss clear, matt clear, pearlescent, holographic, metal effect, transparent holographic, brushed foil & patterned foils!

Hot foil

Hot foil stamping is the process of using heat and pressure to apply metallic foil or holograms to paper or board of any thickness.

Our Foiling dies are either magnesium or brass or copper depending on the application.

Magnesium metal dies are produced by a chemical etching. Least expensive die material, good for short production runs. Fast to produce, used for foiling, embossing and debossing.

Brass is ideal for foiling and embossing, long production runs and very versatile. Less expensive than copper. Allows multilevel and sculpted embossing dies to be manufactured. Easy material to machine.

Foiling options:

Flat foil
Fluted foil
Textured Effects foil.

Digital foil

Perfect for small print runs as there is no need to have a die made and no set up time.

We add a barrier layer of matt or soft touch laminate over the print for the digital (polymer) foil to adhere to.

Available colours Gold / Silver / Rose Gold / Red / Green / Blue / Purple / Holographic.

Sublimation foil

Ideal for variable data such a wedding invite and one-off or very small quantity of foil printed items, we can use a sublimation technique which avoids the need for dies but can produce stunning results on paper and light card. The text or image is printed on a laser printer. The printed card is then processed in a sublimation/hot foil printer which applies the foil only to the printed areas.

Available colours Gold / Silver / Bronze.