Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Lulu - Experimenting

I have been trying out different ways of printing the pattern onto stock. This pattern will be used across a range of different products and i need to make sure that the rastering i did was deep enough to make a clean transfer.
I tried a range of different processes with the rastered material:
Hand embossed - Left and unclean and unclear edge, not crisp enough

Hand emboss - Too gentle, not enough defintion

Roll Press - I put it through the roll press using scrap paper that
i had left over, and got a really clear transfer. The emboss isn't too deep that
it leaves too much of an indentation. But deep enough for it to be seen,
and it works cleanly on both sides.
This will be the process i use when embossing in the future.


What this means is that i can now use this technique to emboss into the substrates without damaging the media. I now need to make an A4 piece, as this pattern will mostly be used on the stationary element of the project. 



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