Foil Stamping is a specialty Printing process that uses heat, pressure, metal dies and foil film. The foil comes in rolls in a wide assortment of colors, finishes, and optical effects. Metallic foil is most commonly seen today – particularly gold foil, silver foil, copper foil, and holographic metallic foils – but foil rolls are also available in solid colors in both glossy and matte finishes.

Early Foil Stamping was done using hand-set lettering or custom engraved dies. Because Foil Stamping was so labor intensive, early Foil Stamping was primarily restricted to book covers and literary titles. To Print Gold text on a book cover, Printers used separate fonts of lead or brass type, with text assembled by hand, one letter at a time, or a custom engraved die with a single image. Once the text or die was assembled, it was loaded into a press, which then pressed thin sheets of metallic Foil into a book cover or other material.

The development of modern hot Foil Stamping took place in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Ernst Oeser, a master bookbinder in Berlin, is credited as a pioneer in the development of Hot-Stamping Foils as early as 1880. In the 1930s, an English Foil manufacturer, George M. Whiley, introduced atomized gold on thin sheets of polyester film. Hot Foil Stamping using these rolls of Gold Foil increased in popularity in the 1950s through the late 1960s.

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