Integrating foil on your label can draw attention to your product and elevate your brand to a more luxurious level. Foil is a common professional design feature on a variety of printed materials. Depending on individual wishes or needs, the foil as a design feature can be applied by a temperature-dependent process (cold stamping or hot stamping). Cold foil started with a simple idea. As a temperature-dependent, i...
More detailsWe often focus on issues related to plastic bag recycling, but one important type of plastic is often overlooked: plastic film and wrapping paper. Plastic film recycling is a soft plastic similar to plastic grocery bags. Often excluding this material when talking about plastic bag recycling can leave out the vast amount of viable recyclable material that can be used to create new packaging. Plastic film, plastic ...
More detailsTipping Foil is used to enhance and protect the cards of financial institutions. A metal ribbon is attached to the card's embossed characters to help highlight the embossed characters. This produces clearer, easier-to-read alphanumeric characters. This ribbon also increases the durability of the card as it is designed to resist daily wear and tear and maintain the quality of the plastic card for years. They are lik...
More detailsIt's honestly not easy to resist a sparkle. So why not add a little (or more) sparkle to your mixed media art? A lot of people get confused when it comes to using aluminum foil in their compositions and think I'm referring to aluminum foil or some kind of metal plate. The more accurate term I use is transfer foil. Artists and crafters often use metallic transfer foil because it's the easiest type of foil to find....
More detailsAluminum foil printing dates back thousands of years. Before the publication of Gutenberg, this process was done entirely by hand. It used to take a skilled artist, molten gold, and a lot of time to create a gold leaf book. After determining the dimensions of a book, gold leaf is hand-laid over selected areas. The book cover is then placed in a gas-powered hot stamping machine. Fortunately, in the Middle Ages, ther...
More detailsHeat transfer foil is a heat transfer material for the garment decoration industry. They are perfect for adding a real metallic element to your designs! If you're not familiar with the name heat transfer foils, you probably know these as screen printing foils or even hot stamping foils. These products go by various names; however, they are all the same. It is important to note that heat-transfer foil is not heat-tr...
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