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Design Opportunities are limitless with thermography.

Thermography creates a lens over the image. Designers can successfully utilize thermography as an element depicting water, perspiration, ice, or other colored liquids. Your artists can create pure, raw emotion and refracted light or heat as a tactile portion of an image.

For example, a person standing under an umbrella in a rainstorm might be printed completely flat, while the raindrops are printed on a second pass in a clear ink that is thermographed. Using this method, the raindrops appear as 3-dimensional clear drops for a dazzling effect. Another example would be the sweat that develops on the outside of a cold glass of soda on a warm day. The same technique of printing everything except the sweat on the glass flat while coming back for a second thermographed pass makes the sweat jump off the printed page.

Thermography can be used to depict raw emotion. For example, by pushing clear outlines of thermography pulsing outside a picture of a human head, a consumer will infer a headache. Thermography pulsing outside a picture of a human heart, will communicate heart pain or perhaps depression.

The refracted light that occurs over a fire or heat can be depicted using clear, radiating pulses of thermography using the same methods mentioned above.

Used properly in design, thermography
adds another cost effective dimension to
printing that can’t otherwise be achieved.

 

When you want to Charm . . . Endear . . . Delight . . . Enchant,
Consider Glitter Thermography!

Ever wonder how greeting card companies add glitter to their designs? They use glitter thermography. Now you can too! Most thermography in the U.S. is clear, however in higher volume applications, you can cost effectively add glitter to your designs for an enhanced effect. Let us capture everyone's attention on your next project.

 

Foil Stamping There is simply no substitute for the look of metallic foils. Foil stamping involves pushing the image in the form of a metal die into a metallic foil material in roll form. The metal die is heated and pressed into the foil and onto the paper releasing the foil in the shape of the image onto the paper. Gold, silver and copper foils are unique in their appearance. Foils are available in other non-metallic colors as well.

Blind Embossing When this process is used on thick, bold images, the resulting effect is subtle and classic. Blind Embossing is similar to foil stamping, however there is no foil. The image occurs simply as the paper is pushed into the shape of the metallic die.

True Copper Die Engraving (aka intaglio engraving) is the Rolls Royce of stationery. The process is more similar to foil stamping than it is to printing, yet utilizes a water based ink that is automatically laser proof. Ink is rolled over an imaged copper die. The ink falls naturally into the imaged area of the die and the excess is wiped away. The die is then pressed into the sheet forcing the ink into the paper. The result is an image that stands up on the paper. Because of the pressure, the paper becomes slightly bruised on the backside. This is exclusively a one-color per printing pass operation. Multi colored engraving jobs require as many passes as there are colors. Because engraving presses have smaller image areas, multiple passes may be required when image areas span over larger portions of a sheet.