Add brilliance to your documents with Toner Adhesion Foiling. Fuser Foil adheres to the dry toner used in most black and white copiers and laser printers. Applying foil adds brilliant metallic colored foil to black and white toner copies or printed documents. Foiling applications are very popular for wedding or other invitations, award certificates, creating borders for craft projects, adding pizzazz to business cards or letter head, and anything else that could benefit from bright metallic color accents.
What is foil fusing? - Foil fusing is a process where foil is bonded to a toner image area that was created using either a laser printer or a copy machine. Foil fusing does not require any type of die. Laser printer and/or copy machine toner is used to bond the foil to the paper. There are no special skills required to produce foil fusing.
Foil fusing only requires that the foil width be slightly wider than the toner image area to be foil fused. Using foil cut slightly wider than the image area, plus the ability to run sheets portrait or landscape helps to minimize foil waste and expense. The maximum paper thickness for foil fusing is based on the maximum sheet thickness you can run on your laser printer/copy machine.
How to Apply Foil:
There are 3 ways to apply the foil.
First, A dedicated Therm-o-Type foiling machine like the FT-10, FT-15 or Automatic Foil-Tech. They use rolls of foil and apply it with a heated roller similar to the way a laminator applies laminating film. However, the foil only sticks to where there is dry toner.
Second, using a heated roller laminator that has a rewind take up reel. Simply use the unwind normally used for laminate to feed the foil and use the rewind feature to take up the used foil.
Third, you can apply foil using any heated roller pouch laminator. Simply cut the foil out to the size you want to apply foil on your paper sheet, placing the foil over the desired location, inserting the paper and foil into a carrier and the running it through the pouch laminator.
Recommended starting point on the laminator
Temp - 255 to 260° F (125° C)
Speed – set at about 50% speed. That unit will run as fast as 3-1/2’ per minute.
Using Fusing Foil is a situation where there is no "Black & White" and some trial and error are required to get good results. Variations in pouch laminators, paper stocks, ambient temperature and humidity can make fusing the foil to react differently. Run a sample and see what the results are then make your adjustments based on what you are seeing.
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