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PRESS INFORMATION

New seamless rainbow foil

Unlimited design possibilities

Fürth/Germany, 14th May 2009: Laser Seamless is the name of the new holographic hot stamping foil from the company Kurz. According to the stamping foil manufacturer, this design foil with a glittering rainbow color play is a revolutionary development that the print decoration sector has long been waiting for. Laser Seamless is characterized by its continuous design that is neither disrupted by shim lines, a characteristic feature of holographic foils arising as a result of technical aspects of the production process, nor by color transitions.

With the earlier holographic rainbow foils that had shim lines, processors were limited in their selection of designs that could be stamped. The foils were only suitable for smaller stampings or less demanding stamping jobs. To avoid shim lines altogether, it was necessary to calculate a stamping interval that would skip these regularly spaced lines. Another option was to reject those stampings that exhibited shim lines after the stamping process. Both of these options, however, resulted in increased costs in terms of time and materials.

With the new Laser Seamless foil, these limitations and additional process steps are now a thing of the past. The selection of stamping designs is now limitless, and the foil is outstandingly suitable even for large-area applications. It is the foil of first choice for exclusive stamping projects that demand an uncompromising visual appearance, and is uncomplicated and efficient to process. The visual quality leaves nothing to be desired. Despite the use of a novel production technology, the Laser Seamless foil continues to offer the same gloss level, and equally brilliant holographic effects as its predecessors. The homogeneous holographic image produced is also highly suitable for overprinting.

Laser Seamless is available ex warehouse in gold and silver, and can also be produced as a cold foil for sheet-fed and web printing. Besides the new premium product, Kurz will continue to offer the more economical variant, the tried-and-proven Laser Select foil that exhibits a slight color change at intervals of 632 mm but is also absolutely free of shim lines.

Laser Seamless, the new rainbow foil from Kurz

LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG · 90763 Fürth · Tel. +49 911 71 41-0 · Fax +49 911 71 41-357