The Complete Guide to Foil Stamping What is Foil Stamping? Foil stamping is the application of metallic and foil prints to materials such as plastics and paper using heat and pressure. It can be used to create many textures including matte, glossy, and metallic textures as well as holographic. The stamping process differs from silk screening and pad printing. This printing process doesn't require ink and is ideal for printing dark colours. Foil stamping uses foil stamping. Foil stamping can be used to make holiday cards, baby announcements and scratchoff foils. It also creates wedding invitation ideas, save the dates cards, and wedding invitations.
What Does Foil Stamping Do? Foil stamping is a highly-specialized printing process that uses heat, pressure and metal foils to create shining metal-like designs and text in a variety of colours. This process is also called hot foil stamping, hot stamping, or hot foil stamping. The heat is what transfers the images from hot stamps to a surface. Foil stamping can also be known as dry stamping, dry foil stamping, or dry stamping. This is because the technique does not require any liquid ink to print. Stamping can be done with dies or carved metal plates.
Foil stamping involves the use multi-layered foil. Foil can be made up of many layers such as: A polyester carrier layer, A release layer 1/2