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Item
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UniFlex®
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Cold Foil
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Die Manufacturing
Time
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Quick and easy- often
in minutes.
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Requires extensive
pre-planning and must be job specific. Installation requires
close attention to detail.
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Clean Up
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Quick and easy- in
minutes.
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Requires extra time
due to adhesive makeup.
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Running Speed
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Comparable to Cold
Foiling.
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Comparable to UniFlex®.
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Capital Expenditures
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Requires a hot stamp
station and a magnetic cylinder for mounting the UniFlex®
Die. Is compatible with any hot stamping rotary press.
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Requires designating
a station for applying the adhesive and one for the foil.
Must be equipped with UV cure capability.
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Foil
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Can utilize any standard
hot stamping foil formulated for rotary hot stamping- available
in many shades. Standard rotary foil is "less" expensive
than foil formulated for cold foil stamping.
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Requires a special
foil formulated for cold foiling and rotary. This foil also
prices "higher" than standard rotary foil. Foil
for cold foiling is only available in limited shades.
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Foil Indexing
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Can be utilized with
UniFlex® and can further reduce foil costs by maximizing
foil usage.
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Can not be utilized
with Cold Foiling thus a higher foil waste factor.
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Adhesives
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Not required.
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Required and is job
specific so formulation must be preplanned. Adhesives add
expense and extra clean-up. Adhesive takes up 1 print station
(unit).
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Foil Stamping Quality
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Crisp, clean and sharp
edges. Can stamp both fine detail and large area detail. Foil
maintains brilliance of foil so it retains its true inherent
characteristics.
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Can stamp large areas
but has difficulty in stamping fine detail and maintaining
crisp edges- edges are usually soft and not clean. Does not
maintain the brilliance of the foil on 90% of jobs- the foil
gets dulled in the cold foiling process and the finished results
can look similar to a metallic ink instead of a foil. The
foil takes on the texture characteristics of the stock causing
it to dull.
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Substrate
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Can stamp on a variety
of substrates paper and plastic substrates.
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Is limited to stamping
on smooth coated stocks or plastic substrates.
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Reuse
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The UniFlex® die
can be reused and easily stored. Additional foil would need
to be purchased.
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The plate used for
Cold Foiling can be reused but added expense is associated
with additional adhesive and specially formulated foil.
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Cost
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The UniFlex® die
becomes a "fixed" cost- as the die is priced per
square inch regardless of detail. The UniFlex® process
is extremely cost effective.
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Cold Foiling can be
expensive and its high expense is related to the adhesive
and special foil required- this would also be considered a
"variable" expense.
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Job Performance
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UniFlex® will
stamp as clean and crisp as traditional solid cylinder foil
stamping without the cost of a customized solid cylinder.
Stamping is very user friendly with UniFlex®.
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Cold Foiling can be
ran on almost any press as it does not require a hot stamp
station. Cold foiling does require a lot of pre-planning and
added expense for specially formulated adhesives and foil.
Cold foiling also has a significant foil waste factor because
it can not be indexed. The press must be equipped with a UV
curing capability.
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