• Engraving
• Stamping
• Gilding
• Embossing
• Thermal relief

The benefits of relief printing

The visual, tangible and emotional impact of relief printing, obtained with a proper engraved tool, immediately marks out the difference and encourages confidence. The printing procedures which use these engraving tools (copper-plate engraving, stamping, embossing and hot marking, usually known as hot gilding) create high quality, authentic and secure paper communication.

Copper-plate engraving

The term “copper-plate engraving” is used for engraving on metal; burin, etching, by removing metal. Requiring special expertise from the craft tradition, copper engraving is the privilege of very beautiful stationery. By extension, it creates a characteristic print thanks to the engraved tool and very strong pressure on the paper which keeps its thickness in the grooves of the engraving.
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Stamping

Stamping, like copper-plate engraving, uses metal (copper or steel) blocks engraved in grooves. The paper is forced through a “counterpart” in the groove of the engraving to be printed with the ink it contains.
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Gilding

This generic printing term, or hot marking, refers to transferring pigments of colour films onto the item to be printed using glue. Light or dark colours, golden or silver, matt or shiny, metallic, pigmented, pastels or with diffraction, forcefully bring out the elegant graphic concepts.
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Embossing

An ancient communication technique using forging or stamping, embossing uses the light and shadow created by a raised or grooved design. Working the paper greatly strengthens visual and tangible prints. It is the mark of elegance.
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Thermal relief

This printing process, thermography, creates a raised effect without engraving. A layer of clear, normally shiny resin powder is melted in the oven onto the fresh ink at the end of offset or typographic printing.
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