FoilStar - Stunning Prospects with Cold Foil Finishing.
Stylish and cost-effective - the art of foil finishing in offset
printing.
FoilStar, the cold foil module from Heidelberg, makes for a whole host of exceptional finishings for labels, packaging, and high-quality commercial print jobs, offering brilliant metallic effects that give your customers' print products high added value. Using FoilStar on the Speedmaster XL 75, Speedmaster CD 102, Speedmaster CX 102 and Speedmaster XL 105 enables a wide range of printing stocks to be finished to impressively high levels of quality.
Cold foil finishing - the technology for brilliant effects.
FoilStar applies the cold foil using two offset printing units. In the first unit, high-tack glue is applied using the inking unit and an offset printing plate either as a spot application or over the entire sheet. The second, actual cold foil unit has take-up and take-off units for applying the foil. Along with the sheet, it is fed into the nip between the blanket and impression cylinders and applied by pressure to the areas of the printing stock coated with glue. When the backing is removed, the metal layer remains on the sheet.
Subsequent overprinting of the foil allows you to achieve a variety of color nuances. The option of varying the number (one to six) and width of the foil webs enables you to precisely adapt the foil consumption to the current job.
FoilStar allows you to choose between versions with and without an index function. The version with index function enables uninterrupted, cost-effective use of the foil as foil transportation stops when foil is no longer transferred onto the print sheet (for example, if the foil travels over the gripper margin or cylinder gap). This is a single-web version with a minimum width of 550 millimeters (21.65 in) and an indexing range of 200 to 750 millimeters (7.87 to 29.53 in) from the start of printing. Foil indexing in the format is possible. Up to six webs from 80 to 1050 millimeters (3.15 to 41.34 in) can be used for the option without an indexing function. Foil indexing in the format is also possible here.
A further benefit is that both printing units can be changed over rapidly and are then immediately available for printing.
FoilStar, the cold foil module from Heidelberg, makes for a whole host of exceptional finishings for labels, packaging, and high-quality commercial print jobs, offering brilliant metallic effects that give your customers' print products high added value. Using FoilStar on the Speedmaster XL 75, Speedmaster CD 102, Speedmaster CX 102 and Speedmaster XL 105 enables a wide range of printing stocks to be finished to impressively high levels of quality.
Cold foil finishing - the technology for brilliant effects.
FoilStar applies the cold foil using two offset printing units. In the first unit, high-tack glue is applied using the inking unit and an offset printing plate either as a spot application or over the entire sheet. The second, actual cold foil unit has take-up and take-off units for applying the foil. Along with the sheet, it is fed into the nip between the blanket and impression cylinders and applied by pressure to the areas of the printing stock coated with glue. When the backing is removed, the metal layer remains on the sheet.
Subsequent overprinting of the foil allows you to achieve a variety of color nuances. The option of varying the number (one to six) and width of the foil webs enables you to precisely adapt the foil consumption to the current job.
FoilStar allows you to choose between versions with and without an index function. The version with index function enables uninterrupted, cost-effective use of the foil as foil transportation stops when foil is no longer transferred onto the print sheet (for example, if the foil travels over the gripper margin or cylinder gap). This is a single-web version with a minimum width of 550 millimeters (21.65 in) and an indexing range of 200 to 750 millimeters (7.87 to 29.53 in) from the start of printing. Foil indexing in the format is possible. Up to six webs from 80 to 1050 millimeters (3.15 to 41.34 in) can be used for the option without an indexing function. Foil indexing in the format is also possible here.
A further benefit is that both printing units can be changed over rapidly and are then immediately available for printing.
