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Copper dies provide great quality for 100 to 100,000 impressions. They are recommended over magnesium dies especially for designs with fine lines or detail. Copper is also good for embossing with a shallow, somewhat rounded appearance.
When ordering dies, provide clean, camera-ready line art to size on a keyline board with instructions marked on an overlay tissue. If you wish to provide film, blind embossing dies require a positive film, emulsion side up. Flat foil stamping or combination dies require a negative film, emulsion side up.
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Foil stamping is truly a value-added process. The cost of adding a color with foil is, in many cases, less expensive than adding an additional color of ink. If your design is properly structured, you can stamp multiple colors of foil in a single pass, for great cost effectiveness. More importantly, the perceived image is greatly enhanced beyond normal expectation of inks - even metallic inks can't equal the richness and saturation of color found in foils.
Pat Quinn works on foil stamping and embossing Dies here at Redkeys. He has been in the industry for over 15 years.
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