Hot Stamping Your Products
Vicmar custom imprints (hot stamp) match covers, business cards, napkins, pens, key chains, wedding announcements or a thousand other things in our modern print shop. Print virtually any color or design up to about 3" by 5" in size.

Hot stamped impressions are especially nice looking. They can be bold colors or very expensive looking "metallic ink" because they are actually printed with melted plastic!

How We Stamp Your Products
Hot stamping machines have electrically heated type (blocks of metal with raised letters) holders, type-high foundry type and/or commercially prepared dies. The operator loads the type holder with the appropriate reverse type, logo, illustration or die, and positions it in the machine with set screws.

When the type reaches the desired temperature, pulling a lever causes the hot type to be pressed against a strip from a roll of plastic (mounted on the machine), and a reverse image is "melted" onto the paper or other receiving item held in position by the machine's jaws.

The basic principle is similar to iron-on transfers. You can tell hot stamped materials by the especially vivid colors and slight indentation where the design is applied as opposed top printing (smooth) or embossing (raised).

Mulitude of Colors
The rolls of plastic come in a wide variety of colors including many "metallic."

Examples

BLACK

SILVER

GOLD

GOLD

GOLD

GOLD

MATTE GOLD

MATTE GOLD

MATTE SILVER

COPPER

RED

RED

BLUE

GREEN

Vicmar offers both "short run" orders (less than 10,000 or so) and large volume production runs.

Hot stamped business cards produce results. You will be supprised how fast Vicmar can deliver! Dies are inexpensive (less than $20 each) and take a few days to manufacture.