 4 Color Process: (Digital Printing) This is a printing
process where a multi-color image such as a photo or other piece of artwork
with several colors is printed with 4-colors (blue, red, yellow, and black) to
create thousands of colors like your computer screen. Process popular for
promotional products like buttons, fans, and other multi-color items.
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 Cloisonné: Cloisonné is an ancient
Chinese Art form, Cloisonné is a metalworking technique using a
multi-step enamel process. A die is created to imprint your design into the
metal. Delicate metal strips are bent to define the colored areas of your
design. Vivid colors are hand filled between the raised ridges of the metal.
The medallion is baked at a high temperature and individually hand polished in
the finish of your choice. This process is used on pins and coins.
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Colorfill: Screen printing an image and then debossing it onto the vinyl’s surface.
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 Debossing: Debossing, the opposite of embossing, is a method that leaves a "depression" of the logo onto a materials surface.
A die is first made and then it is used to heat-pressed on the material.
What is left behind is a ”clean, crisp logo.
It is perfect for leather, vinyl, and durahide promotional products.
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 Decal: Artwork is produced on a transparent or opaque decal, then applied to product.
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 Die-casting: Injecting molten metal into the cavity of a carved die (or a mold).
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 Embossing: Embossing is a method that leaves an
"impression" of a raised logo onto a materials surface. This process is used on hundreds of promotional products like bags and padfolios.
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 Embroidery: Embroidery uses needlework to stitch a logo, lettering, or other designs on items such as apparel, bags,
hats, and hundreds of other items. Before the embroidery begins the artwork has to be "digitized", an electronic process to convert the graphics into a file
that is used by the embroidery machine. The more detailed and larger the logo or artwork is, the more expensive embroidery and set-up charges may be.
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Etching: Using a process in which an image is first covered with a protective coating that resists acid, then exposed,
leaving bare metal and protected metal. The acid attacks only the exposed metal, leaving the image etched onto the surface.
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 Foil Stamping: Applying metallic or colored foil imprints to vinyl, leather or paper surfaces. Usually with a deboss.
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Hot Stamping: Setting a design on a metal relief die or plate, which is then heated and pressed onto the printing surface to achieve a deboss.
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Laser Engraving: Laser engraving is a method by which a small laser imprints a logo into hard surfaces.
This method is perfect for promotional pens and other hard surface and metal items.
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Offset Printing: A process of transferring ink from a metal printing plate to a rubber-covered cylinder.
Used on more complex artwork and for higher quantity runs.
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Pad Printing: A recessed surface is covered with ink.
The plate is wiped clean, leaving ink in the recessed areas.
A silicone pad is then pressed against the plate, pulling the ink out of the recesses, and pressing it directly onto the product.
A simple example of this is a rubber stamp for printing today date available from any office supply store.
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Screen Printing / Silk-Screening: An image is transferred to the printed surface by ink, which is pressed through a stenciled screen.
The screen can be created by light-sensitive emulsion or other method to create a reverse image.
A different screen must be created for every color and each color must be allowed to dry before printing the next color.
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Sublimation: Sublimation is a dye transfer process where the artwork or image consists of a colored dye permanently
embedded into the material surface. A tougher and more durable printing.
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