OVERPRINTABLE GLOSSY SILVER FOIL

API Foilmakers’ TA-Plus rotary cold foil grade has excellent over-printability with UV inks and coatings. It has an easy release system plus the ability to give good fine detail and broad area coverage. It also demonstrates good adhesion onto a range of UV curing adhesives, as required by the cold foiling process.

Narrow web cold foils are now widely used for reel-to-reel label production on filmic materials and coated paper, where foiling units integrated into the printing press enable printed and foiled labels to be produced at high speed in a single, in-line process, with quick, low-cost set-up.

Cold foiling allows for faster processing and saves on tooling costs, although hot stamping foil still gives better results on rougher, uncoated substrates, has greater opacity and is available in a broader range of colours.

API Foilmakers’ cold foil is suitable for use on the foiling systems of all leading machine builders.