Custom printing offers a lot of varieties. You can literally mix and match to achieve a number of looks for your print materials. Through custom printing, you can give your print materials some depth, texture and diversity.
There are different custom jobs you can have done on your print materials. There is die-cutting which involves trimming your prints to a desired shape. Foil stamping involves metallic and pearlized inks while embossing and debossing creates raised images and depressions on the paper respectively.
Embossing defined
Custom printing lets you create distinct features on your print materials, which as said earlier, makes them more interesting. One popular special jobs in custom printing is embossing.
Embossing allows you to create three dimensional images as well as letters and the like. Through this, you can create intricate designs, which makes prints appear more sophisticated and even elegant.
Embossed images or text are created, commonly, through a combination of pressure and heat. The paper or card stock is pressed between a female die and a male counterpart to produce the desired design. The paper fibers are stretched and reshaped in the process, allowing the paper to be molded anyway you want.
Embossing requires a fairly thick paper for it to ably take effect. Too thin and chances are, the paper and print will only get destroyed.
Embossing Varieties
Where would life be without variety? Embossing, as not too many people know about it, boasts of several varieties so you can produce raised images of with different effects or simply looks to your prints.
Knowing or exploring the varieties of embossing can open up new ideas for your custom printing needs. Here are the different techniques, styles of effects you can employ next style.
1. Blind emboss is creating an image without following the design on ink, foil, varnish and the like.
2. Register emboss is the opposite of blind emboss where the images are raised, following an area that has an inked design or foil stamp.
3. Texture emboss lets your prints gain a feel similar pebble or woodgrain.
4. Single Level emboss is the cheapest way to emboss. The image is raised only a single, flat level which can be made with beveling or rounding its edges.
5. Multi-Level Emboss, on one hand, creates two to three more levels.
6. Sculptured Emboss is the most expensive style or technique as it is a hand tooled process. Intricate images can be shaped unto the paper, making it realistic with more detailed depth and quality.
You can use these different embossing processes with others. You can also emboss using other custom jobs as well. So you can emboss your regular print jobs, or again with foil stamped print orders.
Custom printing can do a lot of wonders for your prints. Remember, however, that custom printing requires more resources and time. Turnaround times may be different for each embossing job, depending upon the complexity of your print design. The same can be said about the prices set by your printing company.
Embossing can be made to make your prints really different and original. This custom printing special job promises to capture your imagination, adding literally a new dimension to your printing projects or printing designs. Open up to newer possibilities with custom printing and open up new opportunities for you.
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