Metallic Hot Foil Printing

The most commonly associated type of printing with the hot foil/stamping method. This involves putting metallic colours onto a variety of substrates (The material you are printing onto eg:- paper or card) Gold and Silver are of course the most popular colours as you would expect, but there are approx another 30-40 other metallic colours available to choose from should you so wish. Holographic Hot Foil Printing Holographic Foils are often associated with security printing for the main reason that they are difficult to copy and forge (they are also more expensive to print with and emulate) therefore most people might be familiar with them on tickets for concerts or security labels, but holographic foils lend themselves to much more than this. They are ideal for Party invites, Serviettes/Napkins Wedding Stationery and Greetings Cards and of course Business Cards. foiling-2When using Holographic Foils the ‘mantra’ in my opinion is often less is more and just using a little holographic foil can make a design ‘stand out’ and really jump off the page. Whilst a little more expensive to use they can really lift a design and turn it into an extraordinary visual design statement. Use too much Holographic foil and your design can look a little cheap and tawdry .

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