For the holiday issue of SObefit Magazine we decided to do a full foil cover. I love foil for the holidays, I feel they go hand, so I was really excited for this project. To set your file up you still silo everything as a perfect cut, no feathering. It's amazing how much detail shows up and how precise the adhesive was with all the crevices. I had only worked with hot foil stamping in the past so when I did some research on it I came across this info and found it really helpful:
What is Cold Foil?
Cold Foil Printing is an in line process that works on rotary letterpress and rotary flexo presses closely duplicating hot foil stamping, but cold foil printing is faster, more efficient, and does not require the costly dies associated with hot foil stamping.
Regular anilox rollers and photopolymer plates transfer UV curable adhesive onto a wide variety of stocks. It can be applied in spot or solid print matching most artwork or design imaginable.
Process:
The specially formulated UV-curable adhesive is first printed with a standard photopolymer plate onto the web substrate. The adhesive is then cured with a UV dryer, making the adhesive "tacky." The specially formulated foil is then laminated onto the tacky adhesive with a high pressure nip assembly which transfers the foil onto the adhesive. The remaining foil is then removed and wounded onto a waste wind up.
