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    Embossing Prints

    I'm interested in using an embossing tool to emboss my prints (traditional and digital) with my signature.

    The embossment would be placed in an non-image area somewhere on the border of the print.

    Is anyone out there doing this? If so where did you source your embossing tool. I'm not not done an exhaustive search locally but so far I can find a business supply that can create a rectangular embossing plate with my signature. I know I would a heavy duty long throat embosser for thicker material.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks,

    Don Bryant

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    Re: Embossing Prints

    Any specialty paper store should be able to get you a embossing tool.

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    Re: Embossing Prints

    I had plates made years ago and had them installed in this:

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    Re: Embossing Prints

    I've bought professonal seals at Staples. They can also do signatures - they just cost more.

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    Re: Embossing Prints

    Quote Originally Posted by Louie Powell View Post
    I've bought professonal seals at Staples. They can also do signatures - they just cost more.
    I called their 800 number today and they tell me they don't make rectangular plates.

    After posting I found a couple of online sources. I'd rather buy locally though.

    Thanks,

    Don

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    Re: Embossing Prints

    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Petronio View Post
    I had plates made years ago and had them installed in this:
    Thanks for the photo. Iwas hoping to find something with a "Deeper Throat"!

    Don

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    Re: Embossing Prints

    Deeper throat? You quickly move into press territory. Some are only a foot or so tall, others can do poster-sized sheets for the book printing industry.

    All these cutesy hobby ladies doing scrapbooking have created a market for less expensive plastic versions, please do some research and inform us!

    For $10 I got a simple corner rounder at Hobby Lobby and use it for postcards. It used to cost me $75 per corner to get rounded corners on a run of business cards.

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    Re: Embossing Prints

    Isn't photographic paper too thick to really get embossed? Would it crack the emulsion? How would you mount an embossed print wouldn't the matting flatten it?

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    Re: Embossing Prints

    Don't dry mount it, hang it.

    Don't press so hard the paper cracks. Look a best-selling paperback, those have coated paper covers... they aren't cracked. You could always do it when the print is still not completely dry from washing.

    Cartier-Bresson and others embossed their prints.

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    Re: Embossing Prints

    Hi Don,

    I looked into this a few years ago but never followed through - thanks for the reminder.

    If you want a local source, look up "Rubber Stamps" in the phone book.

    Googling "heavy-duty embosser" will turn up lots of sources such as this.

    These things aren't really intended for embossing the ~300gsm watercolor and printmaking papers that we use for Pt/Pd and other hand-coated alternative processes. To get a good emboss will probably require doing it while the paper is damp.

    I have seen some super heavy-duty cast iron industrial strength embossing presses but I don't remember where. If you can find one of these you could then get custom plate made for it.

    Maybe someone who does letterpress printing would have some other ideas.

    Cheers,
    Keith

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