Hot stamping
Overview
Security printing
Security printing is the field of the printing industry that deals with the printing of items such as banknotes, passports, tamper-evident labels, product authentication, stock certificates, postage stamps and identity cards...
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Hot stamping is a straightforward process:
- A die is mounted and heated,
- Foil is positioned above the material to be imprinted,
- A combination of heat, dwell time, pressure and stripping time control the quality of the stamp.
Foil stamping is environmentally friendly due to it being a dry process.