foil emboss
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- doesnotexist
can someone recommend a good printer to go through (for business cards) that can produce foil stamped media with gradients?
much appreciated.
any tips on produxion would be a help too
- uberdesigner0
yew wud kneed thu wun wit thu foyle produxion kee
- -scarabin-0
a foil gradient?
- doesnotexist0
yeah i see it in this book, "the art of saying hello," wondering if anyone is in the know?
thanks for the help, uberdesigner.
- chz0
if you're printer can't handle it chances are they have someone they farm that stuff out too... its a pretty common technique.
- monNom0
I've see gradients overprinted on foil stamp. That might be the way to go.
the register was way out on the example I saw. maybe talk to your printer about how to get the best result.
- chz0
"a foil gradient?
-scarabin-
(Dec 14 05, 15:46)"that's not possible since foil can't be screened. you could run it as halftone and kinda get the effect of a gradient.
- PonyBoy0
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wow... never seen a gradient overlay on foil... that could pose some pre-production challenges to say the least... it's not some holographic process in the book that you're seeing, is it?
I used to work some mom and pop sign shops back-in-da-day... and we'd special order pre-layered foil for special stamping processes ... but we never printed on the material - the effect of the material came pre-layered... if that all makes any sense.
- chz0
sorry... i didn't see "gradient" until scarabin's post... thought you were just looking for a foil emboss.
- doesnotexist0
im looking at bigactive's business card, has a gradient on the foil.
talked to one printer i knew today, they didnt even know what i was talking about at first.
i gotta find someone that can do this.
- horton0
can we see please?
- doesnotexist0
i cant find a pic of it online. ill just take a pic of it from the book.
give me a few.
- horton0
my guess = its a specialty foil that comes stock with the color effect.
hard to tell from this pic but kinda looks like its the same effect as a hologram.
$$$
- Duane0
Horton is right it's the foil itself - there are huge catalogs of foils that any vendor with foil capabilities should be able to show you. The one I used to have at work was an inch thick. Eveything from hologram foils to colored foils to patterned ones.
- Soler0
or you could do a white foil and print color over it
- Duane0
True - or use silver foil paper and overprint in CMYK and then top that with an opaque white for the background. Talk to your printer and explain your project to them - they can guide you through their capabilities to get the results you want.
- lvl_130
yo war- my friend emailed me again with a bit more info on foil and emboss stuff. not sure if it will help at all but here's what she said:
so re: foil stamping. not sure if
you know this stuff, but some options to consider: you can deboss AND
emboss at the same time you're doing the foil. (it's all the same
heat/pressure process) there are a bunch of different color of foil available besides gold and silver. there's copper, red, blue, black, etc.
there's also glossy, non-metallic stuff that looks cool on textured paper, esp. black. you can get pretty small type foil stamped. AND you can etch textures into the foil too! ok, whew, i'm gettin' a little excited over
here.