

Debossing is a by-product of contemporary letterpress and is what gives it a. Embossing and debossing are the processes of creating either raised or recessed relief images and designs in paper and other materials. The process of letterpress and foil stamping both naturally create a. Blind letterpress is useful for one ply orders since it will not show an emboss on the opposite side. Embossing can be thought of like a paper mountain where the image is. Unlike embossing this is usually done with only one plate pressing from the front. Business card for Goodwin Media with blind flood. The difference is that these processes involve a blind (without ink). Please see the pictures below that help demonstrate the difference: Blind letterpress impression and white foil for Medical Professionals Board. Like foil stamping and letterpress, embossing and debossing use heat, pressure and plates. If you are interested in learning more letterpress terminology, check out last weeks blog post here. This blind letterpress process is not the same as traditional debossing and will have a bit more subtle effect, as debossing will create a much deeper indentation than letterpress. Both emboss/deboss and traditional letterpress can be done blind. We offer blind letterpress, which is the same process as letterpress just without using any ink - this is offered as an option to create an impression on one side of the cardstock without affecting the other side of paper like the debossing method will. Letterpress is a printing process with the main purpose of adding ink - Letterpress was not designed with the purpose of making an indent, however this is a result of the process. This is usually done with a male counterpart underneath the paper so the paper is sandwiched between the two and the design is.
Letterpress vs emboss trial#
Done at Edinburgh Hacklab - time needed - about 4 hours (including trial and error).
Letterpress vs emboss how to#
Embossing is done by pressing a sheet of paper into a female die with a design engraved or etched into it. Debossing (embossing / Letterpress): A short instructable on how to do own debossing die and how to deboss into paper and other materials. There is no ink involved in this process, and the die used will also create the debossed design as a reverse embossed (raised) design on the other side of the card. Embossing is raising the surface of your design so it has some depth.

Debossing is a process for making an indented image in a material, using a metal die.
