From the course: Print Production: Embossing, Foil Stamping, and Die Cutting
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Embossing preprinted stock
From the course: Print Production: Embossing, Foil Stamping, and Die Cutting
Embossing preprinted stock
You're frequently going to be combining embossing and printing. Now, if you're performing blind embossing, which is embossing that takes place on unprinted stock, that's not an issue. If you're performing blind embossing on an unprinted area of printed stock, that's usually not a challenge unless it's too close to the printed area. And then, there might be some buckling. So that's something to take into consideration as you're designing. But registration to a printed area, as you might expect, requires precision. And that usually requires the creation of brass dye. As for the embossing, they're more expensive, but they can hold finer detail, and they're capable of longer runs as well. Brass dies almost always require some hand work. And that's time-consuming, and it's expensive. And if there are errors, those can be really costly. Because if you're embossing and you find out it's not what you want, if you find out you just simply can't hold the detail that you want, or it's having…
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