Also known as foil printing, or hot foil stamping.

• Tone on Tone foil printing is simply a description for the use of glossy foil applied to the same color matt finish gift box - black on black, gold on gold, rose gold on rose gold, white on white etc.
• All our boxes have a matt finish, so tone on tone glossy foil looks especially good.
• It is exactly the same process and price as 1 color foil printing, it’s just the foil is the color of the box.
• If you use our on-line price estimate, just select 1 color foil.
• The print process uses heat and pressure to apply your logo or design with a very thin layer of pre-glued foil film to the surface of the gift box.
• First, your logo or design is etched into a metal block (also known as a die, plate or stamp).
• The metal block is fixed into the foil blocking machine and heated to a high temperature.
• Under pressure the metal block presses the foil film color into the box surface in the shape of the etched design.
• Foil film is supplied on rolls and cut down to the required logo width from larger rolls.
• Traditionally foil colors were most commonly gold or silver but foils are now available in a wide selection of colors and match all our box colors.
• You don’t need to specify the foil color if you want tone on tone, we’ll match it to the box.
• Foil is a solid color, shading and half-tones cannot be achieved. Your logo will need to be modified to a solid color if it normally includes shading.
• Due to the application of heat and pressure, the logo is depressed slightly into the surface of the box.
• Each box is printed individually by hand, this is not an automatic process and requires a skilled printer.

Example of Brass Dies

Example of Foil Rolls

Also known as blind debossing.

Debossing presses the logo down into the surface. Embossing is where the design is raised up from the surface. Embossing is not possible on stock gift boxes.

• A process that uses heat and pressure to depress your logo or design into the surface of the gift box.
• First, your logo or design is etched into a metal block (also known as a die, plate or stamp).
• The metal block is fixed into the foil blocking machine and heated to a high temperature.
• Under pressure the metal block presses your logo into the box surface in the shape of the etched design.
• Debossing uses exactly the same process principle as Foil Printing but minus the colored foil!
• Debossing is the same price as 1 color Foil Printing.
• The block is usually etched deeper for debossing than it is for the application of foil.
• Large and bold designs work well for debossing. Very thin lines, tiny text and small registration marks can lose definition.
• Each box is debossed individually by hand, this is not an automatic process and requires a skilled printer.

Also known as full color, four color process, or CMYK

• Digital printing is for the reproduction of photographs, multi-color graphics, or logos that have shades, tones, graduations and fine details.
• Digital printing works best on white or ivory boxes. Some designs, but not all, can be printed onto black boxes. We will help you with this decision after we see your artwork or proposed design.
• It can also be used for 2 colors if registration is very tight, or the design requires shading that cannot be achieved with screen or foil print methods.
• Digital print requires your graphics be in a CMYK format. It cannot use RGB images. Check with your designer for help with this.
• CMYK means the image is onky made up of 4 colors, Cyan (blue), Magenta (pink/red), Yellow and Key = Black.
• All images can be reproduced by layering and overlapping tiny dots of these 4 colors. You can see these tiny dots if you look at a digital print through a magnifying glass. The dots cannot be seen by the naked eye and instead you see the dots as a solid color and a complete image.
• A digital print machine is similar to your office inkjet printer, but much larger and far more expensive. It uses the same four ink colors but is much more sophisticated.
• If your multi-color image uses Pantone colors we can usually achieve a close match if you specify them as the target colors.
• Each box is printed individually. The gift box is loaded into the machine one at a time and aligned precisely so that your image appears exactly as you’d like.
• Each digital print project requires that the machine be set up and calibrated for your design, so there is a one-time cost, called ‘origination’.
• Digital print does not use physical plates or screens.

Linen Tester and CMYK Colors