Blind embossing presses logos and text into paperboard to create a 3D design that customers can see and feel. Ideal for creating cutting edge artwork designs, embossing is popular across a wide rang of industries including apparel, cosmetics and luxury goods.
- 3D design
- Time efficient
- Ideal for enhancing logos, text and designs
Best Used With
Overview
Embossing uses no ink and dies are pressed onto the paperboard to create a 3D look, allowing customers to not only see designs, text and logos, but feel them too. Ideal for corrugated and folding carton packaging, blind embossing is a unique and subtle way to draw attention to key elements of your packaging design.
Foil Stamping Process
Relief Pattern Configurations
Press Types of Embossing/ Debossing
Clamshell press
Derived from the similarity of an opening and closing clamshell, paper is placed between dies to create an emboss/deboss effect.
Straight stamp press
Like a stamp, single sheets of paper are fed between dies and are imprinted to create an emboss/deboss effect.
Roll press
Large paper rolls are fed through between dies continuously to emboss/deboss designs faster than other traditional methods.
Embossing/ Debossing Die
Embossing/Debossing Die
Two opposite dies that fit together like puzzle pieces, embossing and debossing dies feature a mirrored image of the custom design, one being raised and the other sunken into the die to create the desired look.
