Stamping or hot stamping

Stamping is very similar to Letterpress in its technique, which replaces the ink with ribbons of metallic material that are transferred to the paper by heating the mold, so that the protrusion of the mold heats up when it comes into contact with the stamping tape and the paper, the letters and/or drawing of the mold are transferred.

Dry Hit

We call Dry Blow when we stamp a mold on the paper so that the letters or drawing protrude from the paper, making them legible due to the play of lights and shadows that are produced when light hits the printed paper.

Projecting relief

Incoming relief

Stamped Relief or Authentic Relief

It is the form of printing with which the highest level of quality and finesse is achieved in the raised lines. It is the technique with which banknotes are printed, for example. It consists of flooding with ink a steel or bronze mold made by hand with a burin and that has the drawing or text to be printed in negative. Before coming into contact with the paper, the stamping machine cleans the excess ink from the mold, and then exerts enormous pressure between the paper inserted into the machine by hand and the countermold (positive drawing of the mold made with cardboard). so that the ink found inside the mold saturates the paper fibers of the work, leaving a clear and crisp raised relief impression.

With this Stamped Relief technique, you can also achieve Dry Blow with various levels of relief, achieving a 3D effect on the paper. Widely used in wedding invitations for initials, shields or crowns.

Relief stamped with ink

Dry Strike made with Stamped Relief, steel plate

Thermorelief or False Relief

This technique is based on the Letterpress printing that we have described previously and consists of applying some powder while the ink is cool and then applying heat to achieve the relief and shine so characteristic of thermo-relief. This technique is widely used for initials on wedding invitations or to enhance logos on cards or cards.