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US 9,844,975 B2Granted
Method of manufacturing foil stamped artwork
AssigneeMinted, LLC
InventorsSean Belling, Tonia Misvaer, Nathan Glynn
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Abstract
A method includes storing, in a database, different design templates. Each template includes (i) a print component configured to be printed and (ii) a foil component configured to be foil-stamped. The print component of each design template is associated with inner crop marks and outer crop marks. The foil component of each template is associated with alignment marks that are configured to be aligned with the inner crop marks for the respective template. Both the foil component and the foil alignment marks are embossed on a foil-press die.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- printing, by a printer, onto sheet stock in a batch manner, user-provided print components of designs, wherein the print component of each design is printed along with inner crop marks and outer crop marks, to yield respective printed sheets, wherein the designs include a common foil component, and wherein both the common foil component and foil alignment marks are embossed on a foil-stamp die;
- trimming, from each printed sheet, peripheries based on the outer crop marks, resulting in trimmed printed sheets that include the inner crop marks;
- securing the die onto a foil press;
- foil-stamping, with the die, the foil component and the foil alignment marks onto the trimmed printed sheets;
- determining a deviation of the foil alignment marks from the inner crop marks;
- and
- performing an adjustment, based on the deviation, to reduce the deviation.
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A method comprising:
- embossing both (i) a foil component of a design and (ii) a foil alignment mark onto a foil-stamp die;
- securing the die onto a foil press;
- printing, by a printer, onto sheet stock, a user-provided print component of the design along with an inner crop mark and an outer crop mark, to yield a printed sheet;
- printing the inner crop mark and outer crop mark onto a reference sheet;
- foil-stamping, with the die, the foil component and the foil alignment mark onto the reference sheet;
- determining a deviation of the foil alignment mark on the reference sheet from the inner crop mark on the reference sheet;
- performing an adjustment to reduce the deviation;
- foil-stamping, with the die, the foil component onto the printed sheet;
- and
- trimming the foil-stamped printed sheet based on the inner crop mark on the printed sheet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.