IRISH CREAM PASTEL FOIL

API Foilmakers’ PG series consists of premium matt pigment hot stamping foils, excellent for both fine detail and broad area coverage work as required by the labelling, packaging and graphics sectors.

Pigment hot stamping foils bring many of the same advantages for the application of colour which metallic hot stamping foils have over metallic inks and liquid coatings. Specifically, the use of heat and pressure to apply pigment foil enables the contours of the substrate to be flattened out to provide a smooth surface in the ‘printed’ area.
Clean, high quality text and graphics can therefore be achieved on uneven, rough and textured surfaces.

Another key benefit of foil is the simple, clean process by which it is applied. With fewer process variables, machines tend to be relatively low cost and simple to operate and there are no process chemicals to worry about, with associated health, safety & environmental implications.
This makes pigment hot stamping foils particularly relevant for low volume, high quality label applications.

Compared with inks and liquid coatings, foils deliver a higher pigment load per unit area, resulting in greater colour depth and opacity.

The resistance properties of foil come into play in functional applications such as on the handling surfaces on durable goods or weather-exposed applications such as vehicle licence plates.