Acrylic Holder for Beverage Napkins SKU: acrylic-holders-beverage

Foil/hot stamp printing involves an extremely hot lever pressing down on a foil paper, which then leaves an impression on the item being printed. Once the impression is made, the lever is lifted. The main issue with this printing method is that when the lever is lifted from the product, a logo with a lot of detail may be left with excess foil in the small spaces of the logo/design (i.e., there may be fill-in in the small white areas of a "B" or an "A" or any small white space in a logo or design). For this reason, we often recommend using ink instead of foil/hot stamp. Ink tends to print a lot better than foil and is an especially perfect solution if your artwork has a lot of fine details. Though a foil can be a matte color as well as metallic, often a customer will want or associate foil with that shiny/metallic look. However, on many products, we offer a metallic ink that is a great alternative to foil/hot stamp. Below is an example of how metallic ink printing compares to metallic foil/hot stamp printing.

Halftones are a percentage of a solid color. The napkin example below shows an image with a halftone paying homage to the television series Mad Men. Parts of the image are 100% black but certain parts are only a percentage of black. When a color is printed as a percentage (e.g., 20% or 40%, etc.), it will appear dottier. Sometimes this can work to great an effect as in the example below, but it is something to consider if you do not want this look. On certain products there is a minimum and maximum percentage we can print a color (e.g., min of 20% and max of 40%). This will depend on the item so please contact us if this is a concern with the item you are ordering. If you do not want the finished product to have this grainy appearance, the other option would be to print as a separate color and not as a percentage of black, or simply remove the halftone and leave the color of the item.

A gradient is when a color scales from dark to light or light to dark. Gradients can be very subtle or very dramatic. In most cases, we can only print gradients when printing digitally. Below is an example of a gradient.