Image Registration Issues that You Should Be Aware of while Applying Hot Stamping your Prints.

Hot Stamping may be beautiful and attractive on your prints. But, when applied wrongly, it may end up in the opposite way. In this article, your will read about the Do and Don’t about the image registration issue while applying Hot Stamping. As you may know, hot stamping is an additional procedure applied to your prints, that transfer a foil layer onto your prints using heat. Therefore, it is not a one time process that our printing facilities can print it directly with CMYK. As there will be one more step required, you are required to be extra careful on the potential issues that might occur to your print.

Illustration below shows the process of hot stamping:

                                          

 

Avoid Outlining or Adding Shadows to Hot Stamping Fonts or Images

As mentioned previously, Hot Stamping is not a one time process. Hence, it requires precision alignment for printers to transfer the foil onto your prints. From illustration below, your desired printing artwork has a shadow and outline on the stamped image. The later illustration shows the possible outcome. So, it is highly advisable that you should not do that on your hot stamping jobs.

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Possible Outcome:

Avoid Using Hot Stamping as Outline or Frame of your Prints

In the same way, attempting to use Hot Stamping to print on Gold Frames onto your images is also highly not advisable. As it requires too much precision, and very minimal allowance of error, it is merely impossible for printers to get it done at zero wastage. Illustration below shows you on the desired outcome and the potential outcome of the issue.

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Possible Outcome:

In conclusion, you are highly advised to keep your hot stamping prints as simple as possible. Simplicity means beauty. Therefore, just try to keep it simple and clean. Overcomplicate the designs will usually overturn the desired outcome. Hence, if you find this article useful, feel free to subscribe and sign up on Printoka.com as a member. We have more member benefits than you can expect. Discounts, free shipping promotions, and huge variety of products is available online! For further reading, you may learn more on how to prepare a perfect artwork for Hot Stamping by clicking on to the link.

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