While we were at Vernon street to expose screens we continued to experiment with our business cards using the embossing plates I'd made previously. We originally experimented with just greyboard and the impressions in the board were not particularly strong, especially as we were using 12pt goudy, which has some very fine details.
Yaf on the Nipping press used for embossing at vernon street.
After a few more impressions on greyboard, we realised we weren't really getting a distinct enough emboss, even after sourcing different weights of greyboard. So we decided to try a few on thick card, which we could then duplex in order to get the stiff, consistently coloured business cards we were looking for without the density of the heavy board.
Again we tried a few times and got similarly dull results, even on the much thinner card. On speaking with one of the print staff he mentioned that when embossing onto book covers the impression is always much better on bookrum when it is already applied to the greyboard cover. So we decided to pad our card in the nipping press with greyboard, not really knowing what to expect.
It worked really well, below shows the visible difference in impression made with and without greyboard padding in the nipping press.
Original impression on black card without greyboard padding.
Improved impression after using greyboard to pad the plate and stock
Original impression on white textured card without greyboard padding.
Impression on white board with the greyboard padding...greatly improved
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