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Text by; Nur Sarah Binti Azlan Photo by: Internet
Foil stamping is the one of the method in the finishing or post press process. The purpose of this method is to adding more beauty and attractive on a product. The foil stamping was started in the 19th century. It is popular to applying this effect to the printing book on leather and paper. The first process for this method was in Germany by Ernst Oeser in 1892. The foil stamping process was carried out by using a die block with a rise image. The image will be heated and sheet of foil will press on the surface of the product. The foils will be comes in rolls with the various of colour, texture, pattern and others but basically the gold and silver colour are prefer to the product from the customer ordered. The step to applying the foil stamping on the product is it requires a special block according the image to using it. And then the block will be overlapping on the images with the foil sheet with colour and texture that requested. This method is popular in design of the product because it adding glowing and special on the product. The foil stamping seems to be giving the shiny effect and arise that can attract the customer or buyer interest when saw it. Among the products that use foil stamping method are books, packaging, business card, greeting cards and more. All those examples have to make some special that can attract the customer or buyer interest at a glance. Like example the novel books is popular in the using foil stamping method. The foil stamping was normally on the title of the books to highlight that title books. So, people from a little further can see it the title in clearly on that book. This foil stamping method can giving the benefit the product become luxury and elegant that can make memory to everyone that saw it. The ordered from the printing company to make foil stamping on the surface of the product are really high. But normally in printing company requires the large quantity for the foil stamping method because it will be high cost if the small quantity.
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THE FUTURE OF PRINTING TECHNOLOGY
Text by; Nur Fathiah Athirah bin Abdullah Photo by : Freepik.com
Let’s just face it. Computers and the internet are here to stay. But where does that leave print? With everything online and our environment in downturn, do we really need paper? Do we really need printing services? Despite what some people may think, the printing industry is thriving. So, what is printing? Printing means reproducing words or images on surfaces such as paper, card, plastic, fabric, or another materials. Some popular forms of printing, such as relief printing, gravure printing and offset printing. All three involve transferring ink from a printing plate to whatever is being printed. The ink that these three forms of printing used is four major colours which are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (CMYK) These four colours creates the illusion of 3D images on flat surfaces. As technology develops through times, a new forms of printing was emerged, it is called 3D Printing.
The term of 3D printing can refer to a variety of processes in which material that is combined or solidified under computer control to create a three- dimensional object, with the material that being mixed together such as liquid or powder grains being melted together typically layer by layer. This 3D printing were being introduced and commonly used by people by year of 2019. The precision, repeatability, and material range of 3D printing has increased to the point that some 3D printing processes are considered vibrant as an industrial production technology.
The earliest 3D printing manufacturing equipment was developed by Hideo Kodama of the Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute, he invented two additive methods for fabricating 3D models. There are 3 types of 3D printing technologies which is sintering, melting, and stereolithography and there are 7 forms to create 3D printing which is direct energy deposition, material extrusion,
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