From the course: Print Production: Embossing, Foil Stamping, and Die Cutting
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Creation of art for foil dies
From the course: Print Production: Embossing, Foil Stamping, and Die Cutting
Creation of art for foil dies
When you're creating artwork that's going to be used for foil stamping it might be nice to keep in mind how foil stamping works. The foil actually has a bit of adhesive on the back and that's what makes it initially stick on the paper, but what makes it stay there is pressure and heat from a die and a counter die, and what you're creating artwork for is that die. Ideally you should supply black and white vector art. If you're going to supply an image it should be a high resolution bitmap, at least 600 pixels per inch. And when I say bitmap I mean an image that has only black and white, no grayscale. Don't have any screens, no textures, anything like that. It really needs to be solid areas. And as you create text provide a little extra space between the letters and keep in mind that there's always sort of a little fringe where foil is applied, a little fringe around the outside, and that could result in letters that are too close, sort of running into each other. And you'll see that…
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