Hot Foil printing is a relief printing method in which metallic or coloured foil is transferred to card or paper stock using high temperatures to melt the foil onto the surface.
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Serif Press use hot foil printing to enhance certain parts of type or embellishments within your design. This process is often used in tandem with letterpress, litho or digital print to give life, light and uniqueness to an item.
The part of your design that is hot foiled is made into a relief metal or polymer plate/die. The Plate is heated up electronically and when it is pushed onto the foil and through to the card or paper, the design on the plate/die is melted onto it in the colour of the foil.
During the 19th century, hot foiling/stamping became a popular method of applying gold or embossing in book printing. Patented by Ernst Oeser in 1892 it was originally used on leather and paper but from the 1950s onwards it was used in the plastics industry. The die-stamping process itself is non-polluting because the materials involved are dry