{"id":1071,"date":"2017-11-21T23:52:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T07:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2018-10-29T08:07:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:07:41","slug":"foil-printing-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/foil-printing-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the guidelines for foil printing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We offer foil printing at NextDayFlyers. Here are some guidelines to help you set up your files.<\/p>\n<h2>Foil Printing<\/h2>\n<p>There are things you need to watch out for when designing artwork that will be foil stamped.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you\u2019re adding foil to text, the font size should be at least 8 pt.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re adding foil to strokes or borders, they have to be at least 1.5 pt. thick.<\/li>\n<li>Foil should cover less than 50% of the surface area of the product.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, all images or text you\u2019ll be adding foil to should be on a separate layer on your design file. If for example, you\u2019re creating your design in Adobe Photoshop, then your document should have a layer indicating which areas would be in foil.<\/p>\n<p>We have PDF instruction manuals for <a href=\"https:\/\/static3.nextdayflyers.com\/Instructions\/Photoshop%20Guidelines.pdf?_ga=2.30734845.355062160.1506068338-1946374401.1506068338\">Photoshop<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/static3.nextdayflyers.com\/Instructions\/Illustrator%20Guidelines.pdf?_ga=2.30734845.355062160.1506068338-1946374401.1506068338\">Illustrator<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/static3.nextdayflyers.com\/Instructions\/Publisher%20Guidelines.pdf\">Publisher<\/a> in case you need additional instructions on how to use our templates to set up files for printing.<\/p>\n<p>We have three types of foil printing to choose from:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1072\" src=\"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_GoldFoil_1840x1840.jpg\" alt=\"Gold Foil\" width=\"1840\" height=\"1840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_GoldFoil_1840x1840.jpg 1840w, https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_GoldFoil_1840x1840-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_GoldFoil_1840x1840-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_GoldFoil_1840x1840-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_GoldFoil_1840x1840-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1840px) 100vw, 1840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Silver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1073\" src=\"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_SilverFoil_1840x1840.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Foil\" width=\"1840\" height=\"1840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_SilverFoil_1840x1840.jpg 1840w, https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_SilverFoil_1840x1840-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_SilverFoil_1840x1840-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_SilverFoil_1840x1840-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_SilverFoil_1840x1840-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1840px) 100vw, 1840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Copper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1074\" src=\"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_CopperFoil_1840x1840.jpg\" alt=\"Copper Foil\" width=\"1840\" height=\"1840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_CopperFoil_1840x1840.jpg 1840w, https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_CopperFoil_1840x1840-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_CopperFoil_1840x1840-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_CopperFoil_1840x1840-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NDF_BusinessCards_CopperFoil_1840x1840-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1840px) 100vw, 1840px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Submit Vector Files<\/h2>\n<p>One last thing. Any part of your artwork that would be foil stamped should be in vector format. We do this because any shape in vector format can be scaled without losing quality. If you\u2019re submitting a Photoshop file for your artwork, for example, you want to convert a text layer to a shape by right-clicking the text layer then clicking \u201cConvert to Shape\u201d from the list of actions that pop up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We offer foil printing at NextDayFlyers. Here are some guidelines to help you set up your files. Foil Printing There are things you need to watch out for when designing artwork that will be foil stamped. If you\u2019re adding foil to text, the font size should be at least 8 pt. If you\u2019re adding foil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qandf-help.nextdayflyers.com\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}