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Foil Stamping

What is Foil Stamping?

Foil stamping is a cost-effective, eye-catching form of heat transfer printing. Using a heated metal die, color pigments are stamped onto paper and other substrates. It is truly a value-added process. The cost of adding a color with foil stamping is often less expensive than adding an additional color in ink. To add a decorative touch to letterhead, envelopes, book covers, plastic vinyl or other substrates, foil stamping is the way to go!

Environmentally Friendly
Foil stamping is also a more environmentally friendly technique because it is a dry process. In other words, there are no solvents, inks, or vapors associated with the process. Foil stamped paper is also recyclable.

 Frequently Asked Questions...
When should Teflon be used?
Teflon is used on thermal kiss-cut dies to keep the die from sticking and to stop vinyl from building up on the shoulder of the die.  It can also be used on debossing dies when stamping into substrates that will stick to the die.

What is "right" reading and "wrong" reading?
A "normal" die is wrong reading so when you stamp or print the finished piece is right reading.  On a die that is right reading, you can read the die but when you stamp or print, the image is wrong reading.

If you don't find the answer to your specific question here, please do not hesitate to contact our Customer Service Specialists at OWOSSO by phone at 1-800-444-5552 or by email at engraver@owossographic.com


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