We produce embossing dies for the printing and embellishment industries.  Embossing give the paper a 'raised' effect.  Greeting cards, business cards, dvd covers, concert programs, to name a few are commonly embossed.

 

We produce embossing dies 2 ways.  Flat embossing with different levels can be engraved on our CNC machine.  More complicated designs, especially those with a sculptured effect, need to be engraved by hand.  Understandably, hand engraving is more specialised and time consuming.

 

 

Embossing can be done with or without a printed image.  Those that have a specific printed image need to 'register' - which means the engraved image needs to be to scale and in the correct place for the image to be printed on top.

 

A 'blind' emboss doesn't need to register and the overall design is embossed...

 

 

These dies can also be made to 'register' or can be a 'blind' emboss.  A foil is the metallic look on the print.  Not all foils, such as flat foil stamps, are raised.

 

'She' dies are embossing dies raised with a foil keyline.

 

 

For prints that only have a 'short run', i.e. are used for a limited time, then discarded such as wedding invitations and greeting cards, we use magnesium with a vinyl counter.

 

For 'long term' prints a more durable material such as brass with a bakelite counterpart is used.  It allows printing companies to re-use them.  DVD covers, wine labels and business cards tend to be made in brass.

 

Long run prints can also have a die made with duplicated images, so as the printer may print more than one at a time.

 

 

The branding industry also use embossing dies or stamps to burn the image into leather, fabrics or timber.  Some are attached to soldering irons and others are heated over a flame.

 

 

We also make the dies/moulds that go into seal presses.  Seal presses can come in different sizes, we can cater for all of them.

 

We supply the hand sculptured brass dies, as opposed to the common plastic ones.  These are hard to come by in Australia and we are one of the only companies Australia wide that still offer this type of work.  Brass dies allow for more details, more depth and last much longer than the plastic versions.  Many lasting 20+ years

 

We cater for the Public Notary, law firms, Government officials with Government Crests, family historian with family crests or for businesses looking to emboss their sigil onto documents.

 

We can also supply the seal presses- both the new hand held versions and the older more stable and elaborate desk top version.