Hot Stamping Basics :
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What Is It
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Hot Stamping is an industrial marking process
best known for the shiny metallic gold or silver print it
commonly produces. The process is also known as foil
stamping, hot foil stamping, gold stamping, gold blocking, foiling, and gold
leaf.
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Most people know hot stamping as the
hologram on your credit card, the metallic gold printing found
on cosmetics packaging, or in the picture, the gold printing seen on the
poker chips.
What Can Be Hot Stamped ?
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P lastics of
most kinds
Textiles like satin
ribbon, polyester and nylon
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How it Works
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Hot stamping works by pressing a heated
metal die against a colored
foil and the product to
be printed. Where the raised surface of the die touches the foil and product being stamped, the foil
graphic is permanently transferred to product.
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Supplies
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The process of hot stamping employs 2 consumable supplies:
foil &
dies .
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How Much ?
Hot Stamping is extremely economical :
Foil costs at around 5 square inches for 1 cent.
Principal Benefits of Hot Stamping :
Principal Drawbacks of Hot Stamping :
imited
to stamping on flat surfaces
A moderate learning
curve ~ experience begets improvement
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