How Do You Make Business Card Templates With Multi-Colored Raised Print?
Once known as “poor man’s engraving,” advances in thermography printing have increased its use to the point it is what most people today know as raised printing. Thermography is actually a finishing process that involves dusting still sticky and wet ink with a plastic resin powder, vacuuming and recycling the excess, and then subjecting it to high heat to produce a gloss raised effect on the finished printed piece. It is most common to use transparent powders that take on whatever color of ink is underneath them, but opaque color, metallic, pearlescent and other powders are available for special design situations. This article discusses how to set up a simple two-color template for raised printing business cards you might order from your local printer or online. Talk to your local printer (most will have to send thermography orders out) or explore online to see what your design options are for printing capability, paper color and weight, and ink colors. The printer will most likely use
