Foil stamping uses heat and metallic film in a specialty printing process that produces a shiny foil design on paper, vinyl, textiles, wood, hard plastic, leather, and other materials. Foil stamping, also called hot stamping, dry stamping, foil imprinting, or leaf stamping, can be combined with dimensional embossing to make letters and images on business cards, book covers, gift cards, office folders, and a whole host of professional or personal items.

The process requires a metal block with your custom design/logo imprinted on it. This block is then placed into the foil machine and used with the foil to imprint a foiled design/logo.

Instead of using magnetism, plates, or inks to print words and shapes, foil stamping uses dies, or sculpted metal stamps. The heated dies seal a thin later of metallic leaf onto a surface. Once heated, it presses the foil against the substrate material with enough pressure that the foil sticks only in the intended places, leaving a slight imprint.

A digital image is first produced through the use of computer graphic software such as CorelDraw or PhotoShop. This can include a corporate logo, image in a black and white vector file. A vector file is a true graphics file and not a scanned photo or a bitmap such as jpeg, gif or bmp files. Artwork must be supplied to us as a CorelDraw file, Illustrator file or an eps file in SHARP black and white not greyscale. We can design your vector logo file for you at a small cost of $55.00 including gst.