Red Foil....



Red Foil on FreezePop's Featured Title page

Bronze...(this client did a really fun thing and did a different color foil for every season)



Silver foil....on WIDESCREEN Traypack


Check out some of our other widescreen traypaks too! These are always fun designs.

 

Foil on fiberboard makes a beautiful contrast between the natural, fibrous paper and the shiny reflective foil. Here are some great examples:

Award winning packaging, designed by STS9:


Similar concept but with a fun twist added (check out the pocket!):


We have more photos of fiberboard traypaks and fiberboard jackets if you'd like to explore!
Fiberboard is a wonderful, eco-friendly paper stock and has recycled material, pulp material, end of chain material, and is unbleached. It gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling!

Hot foil stamping is a special process that results in a raised area of foil. Metallic inks are special pantones colors that one can print and not involve any kind of stamping or raised relief. So texture is one big difference, but the other big difference is that foil is SHINEY and metallic ink is NOT. Metallic inks are quite matte. A few examples…

Here are some neat side by side comparisons of silver metallic ink printed on fiberboard, and hot foil stamped silver on fiberboard:



Silver metallic ink is flat, matte, definitely not shiny.
Foil is very shiny.

We can also do a run of business cards with foil to match!


We did matching cards and spine printing for the various directors of this film reel.

One other option we can do, is foil paper. This is a complete wrap of foil paper, as opposed to select areas. It is less expensive than hot foil stamping.

Foil.....is expensive. It is one of the coolest looks out there, but be prepared for a bit of sticker shock. Pricing is usually done per panel (such as front of cover, back of cover, spine, slipcase only, etc) and is determined by the amount of coverage. If you can let us know how much foil coverage you'll need, we can give you the costs to add to any package.

Because it is a special process, like embossing, it requires a special press proof if you want to see the outcome on the actual press. A simulation can be done by substituting a cmyk color for it on the regular color matchprint.

Although most professional-level graphics programs allow the use of spot colors, we find that the easier way to create spot effects is to create a new layer (or layers) in the program, then create art in one of the standard process colors. This allows you to work with your CMYK or RGB art without the limitations created with multi-channel files.

When we get your artwork, we will place the file on as many pages as there are effects layers, then override the layer visibility for the file on each page to show just what we want to show. Call or e-mail to be walked through the process depending on your program of choice, or have your graphics specialist setup the special effects for you (may incur additional cost, depending on their complexity).

One of our favorite titles for show & tell is the Deva Film Reel as it actually has all of the effects; hot foil stamping, embossing and debossing, spot UV glass & lamination. Be sure to check our the full spec for the special printing effects on Deva's Featured TItle page.