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Koldfoil makes your products
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Company profile
Established in 1988, K Laser is the largest
publicly traded holographic company in
terms of market share. We provide a wide
range of holographic products for selection
in order to encourage the market demands
with brand names protection, security
packaging, printing and product decoration.
In

2003,

Hologram
(IHMA),

we

joined

the

Manufacturer
which

highlights

International
Association
the

laser

manufacturing technology and gain the

international recognition. In recent years,
we strive to develop more advanced
technology and improve our holographic
products for stronger security measures. K
Laser has been aiming to be your brand
protector and the best global service
provider for you.

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In 2002, J. Michael Rivera was the head designer for the Cold Foil Division of AMAGIC Foils,
which is the subsidiary company of K Laser. At the same time, he wrote and published GO
COLD, the first Cold Foil Printing process Handbook. He then led K Laser and the market to
know more about crafts of cold foiling and successfully achieved fame in the Western market.
In 2010, he became the Vice President for the Cold Foil Division of AMAGIC Foils and provided
professional training and demonstration of cold foiling technology to his customers. Also, he
held different speeches and published the book Coil Foil for Dummies in order to widely
spread and promote the use of cold foil.

Truly, it is a fact that if lamination and the processes of printing can be simultaneously
undergoing, efficiency will be greatly increased and wastage will be reduced. It saves the cost
and increases the competitiveness of the products. To achieve this goal, K Laser took it into
practice and developed the technology of Cold Foiling.

Cold foiling is not only a proven process in flexographic and offset label printing but also a
perfect fit for flexible packaging, gift tags, and security strips for packages.
K Laser, the industrys global leader in holographic cold foil manufacturing, offers total cold
Koldfoil printing solution that ensures easy, fast, and affordable foil applications. We not
only provide high performance foil but also develop adhesive formulas that work with the foil
and substrates. We also offer installing, designing, and technical consultation to help
customers for achieving the best foil images on printing. In the future, K Laser will continue to
strive for opening up the market of Koldfoil.
For more details, please visit http://www.coldfoil.com

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1. Print the cold foil adhesive
using standard printing plates
2. Nip the foil on top of the wet
cold foil adhesive
3. Cure the cold foil adhesive thru
the foil
4. Strip off the excess foils

1. Product information
Cold foiling is the process by which foil is transferred with the use of pre-printed
adhesive. Different from the traditional hot stamping foil, which uses heat transfer method
so that high temperature is needed, while cold Foil just need around 40-50 and use UV
Cold Mode to work, through bonding and separation to reach the transfer effect.
In the past, flexography printing and letterpress
printing are mainly used as craft. However, in the
recent years, the advanced In-line Cold Foil
Offset Printing Machine was launched. It provides
flexibility in our production process and further
reducing the production cost.

2. How it works
Using a standard printing plate, an image is printed by cold foil adhesive onto a substrate
from standard print station. Cold Foil technology is then laminated onto substrate under
nip roller, followed by passing under UV lamp station. The printed adhesive is cured under
UV light through the cold foil, bonding the foil onto the substrate. The foil is then stripped
and wound to a waste wind up.

3. Advantages of Koldfoil
i. Dramatic Register
Cold Foil provides precise registration as good as flexography printing quality.

ii. Multi-functional Application

An ultimate solution to heat sensitive materials, for example, PP, PS, PE, soft plastic
and shrinkage PP

iii. Productivity Accelerant

Go stamping in line with your printing process from 25-100M / Minutes

iv. Excellent Quality

Good performance in fine word, large image, half-tone and high resolution.

Cold foil
VS
hot stamping
technology

Cold Stamping

Hot Stamping

Register

Difficult

Easy

Shrinkable Film

Very Difficult

Easy

PP, PE and soft plastic

Difficult & expensive foil

Easy and cost

remains unchanged

Heat sensitive substrates

Impossible

Easy

Speed (average)

<25 M / min

25-100M / min

In-line with printing

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4. Specification
Product
code

,015$8

Thickness Width
(u)
(mm)

Description

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5. Pattern available
K Laser offers Koldfoil with gold and silver in color, and also different holographic
patterns for selection. And K Laser has advanced holographic technologies for
anti-counterfeiting function.

6. Variety further applications & Opportunities

Just need to think over the designs,
you can apply cold foil in cosmetic
industry (Labels for lipsticks, perfume
make up, nail polish), food & drugs,
articles for daily use (shampoo, labels,
toothpaste boxes & blister cards),
wines

labels,

nutritional

pharmaceutical

supplements,

&

beverage

labels, security strips, stickers, tickets,

tags or shrinkable sleeves for bottles,
etc.
If you further think over, more
interesting effects may be appeared by
overprint

images

using

opaque,

pigment or transparent ink with colors.

Overprinting after foiling is also a
new tendency and opportunity to cold
foil. You may never imagine or come
across if you just keep your minds in
conservative

printing

or

blocking

production technology in the past

years. It is surprising and amazing to
see designs become more complicated
and

attractive

under

continuously

developing ideas on applying cold foil

over printing jobs.
Lets keep our eyes on what should
be going on with our new star, Cold
Foil Technology

7. Additional Hints
i. Adhesive coating quantity
The amount of adhesive used is very important in cold foiling. It needs to be adjusted
according to the printing area, for example, using less adhesive when printing fine
line, but when printing on large area and rough surface, the amount of adhesive used
need to be increased so that the foil can stick better.
ii. Substrates
PE and PP are the main substrates, PET is the minor one; Printing on paper is rare
as the surface of paper is rougher, the amount of adhesive used is greater, therefore
the cost will increase.
iii. Power of UV lamp for curing
The UV lamp is in the good working situation. The UV light needs to penetrate through
the foil and aluminum layer for curing. If the printing process is in high speed, the
automatic function of the UV lamp should be closed and high intensity UV light
benefits the printing effect. If the adhesive is inadequate cured because of large area
of the printing material or low output of the UV lamp, the speed of the printing process
can be lower in order to prevent the problem.
iv. Slitting angle for definition
The slitting angle is highly related to the pattern and cross-section. Larger slitting
angle is suggested when printing fine line and dots in order to attain a better effect.
However, a small slitting angle is suggested when printing large area.

8. Control of Koldfoil
i. Hardness of Nip
Generally, the hardness should be 85-90. It is too hard if the hardness is larger than
90 and it may cause poor transfer, while unclear image may be caused if the hardness
is less than 85.
ii. Development of photopolymer plate, go towards thinner and harder
In the past, the common photopolymer plate was usually 1.7mm thickness with
0.3mm sticky-back tapes and 50-55 degree hardness, while it changes to be
0.95-1.14 thickness with 0.1-0.15mm sticky backs. Hard printing plate will be easy to
distort under high printing pressure; meanwhile, the fineness will also be decreased
and the uneven adhesive may be occurred. Therefore, the hardness should be less
than 65 degree.
iii. Angles of lamination and separation


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iv. Power of UV Lamp

Minimum requirement of the power of the UV lamp should be 200W/cm. If the power
is 12KW/11 Inch, i.e. 1090W/Inch, it is equal to 429W/cm.
v. Anilox Nip Roller
Anilox includes metallic and ceramics, and the most common one in the market is

ceramics. Large space images should be 100-160 LPC (Line per cm) while the tiny
character should be 180 LPC or above. General formula for Anilox manufacturer is
0.23 < depth/diameter of nip roller < 0.33.
If the depth is too high, insufficient ink and skipping would be caused.
If the depth is too low, ink will leak out before transferring to the substrates and the
fineness will decreased.
vi. UV adhesive
A. Suitably choosing the UV adhesive can improve the quality of cold foil stamping.
B. Ensure if the dryness is enough. If it is enough, the properties of water-resistance,
solvent-resistance and acidic-resistance are strong.
C. Insufficient degree of cure of UV adhesive will lead to white spot, skipping and poor
fastness.
D. Insufficient amount of adhesive coating of UV adhesive will lead to white spot,
skipping, poor fastness and pinhole.
E. High viscosity of UV adhesive can improve the stamping quality. If collocating with
a high mesh count of the Anilox, the performance of line and spot will be decreased
but the performance of fine text and dot will be increased.
vii. Printing Pressure
This is the most important factor. If the printing quality is weak, even owning the most
advanced equipment, best cold foil film and adhesive, the stamping quality remains
weak. However, the printing pressure cannot be quantified at present, and it can only
be adjusted according to the experience of the printing staff
viii. Relation between substrates and Anilox
For different substrates (Paper, or plastic), different Anilox should be used. Generally,
the amount of adhesive coating for paper is 7g or above, i.e. 200-400 LPI (Line per
Inch); for plastic, it is 4~7g or above, i.e. 400-800 LPI (Line per Inch).

9. Trouble-Shooting
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Nip roller too soft

Use harder nip roller

Contact pressure too

Increase the contact

Small holes
appear on the
surface

Contaminated Nip roller

Printing under dust-proof

environment

Poor transfer

Too much adhesive

Adjust anilox roller

Nip roller too soft

Increase the contact pressure

Contaminated printing
and printed surface

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Unclear image on
the design

Too much adhesive

Adjust the amount of adhesive

Nip roller too soft

Use harder Nip

Crazing on the
design

Foil tension too high

Adjust the device to lower the

tension

Foil sticks with Nip

Clean and replace Nip

Pinholes on the
design

Insufficient adhesive

Increase the amount of adhesive

Pressure of nip roller

too low

Adjust the nip roller pressure

Blurred image
and fish-eye

Adhesive not adhering

to substrate

Install idler roll under UV lamp

Poor scratch
resistance

Inadequate curing of
adhesive

Increase the UV lamp output

Adjust the foil tension

Test the quality of the foil

Poor UV lamp
Unqualified foil

Wrinkle on
surface

Inappropriate foil
tension

Adjust the device to change the foil

tension

Overheated UV lamp
Inappropriate operation
Wrong position of idler
roll

Blurred edges

Pressure of Nip roll too

low

Adjust the setting of the plate

Inappropriate setting of
the plate

The process is
too low and even
stop.

Contaminated anliox
cell

Use xylene, acetone and vinegar to

wash anilox cell

Poor UV dryer

Pay attention to the choice of foil

used

Foil is inappropriate to
wet lamination

Saw-toothed
edges

Too much or too less

adhesive

Adjust the amount of adhesive

10. Supports
K Laser aims at providing the quality services to customers with one stop service by offering
the pre-sales inquiries and after-sale technical support such as the entire package planning,
sample arrangement, product planning and the arrangements for the mass production.

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12. Certifications & Product Safety

Koldfoil is approved by different certifications, for example, full compliance with RoHS
Certification; U.S. standards ASTM F963; EN71 Part 3 and REACH standard.
For more information and/or copies of certifications, please contact us.

Conclusion
If you would like to enjoy the prominent
and trendy design with effective
anti-counterfeiting solution, please do not
hesitate to contact with us.
Start your brand-new day with advanced
technology. Give yourself an opportunity
for change and upgrade.
Step up your security level with your
holographic new star!!

K LASER TECHNOLOGY ( HK) CO. LTD.

Unit 6, 1/F., Trust Centre, 912 Cheung Sha Wan Road, Kowloon, HK.
TEL : 852-2785 8768

FAX : 852-2785 8978

Cold Foil Adhesive

Usage Calculator
Length 8
Width 10
Qty/1000s 99.2

Instructions: Type length,

width and quantity in 1000s of
print sample. Reference the
adhesive needed in the black
row, note coverage and
change anilox volume to the
desired value.

Type Job Details Here:

Coverage
Area
(Sq In)

Line
Count

Anilox
Volume

Ink
Needed

7936000

1200

1.2

5.33

55111

9520000

1000

1.5

8.00

66111

7145000

800

2.0

8.00

49618

5710000

660

2.5

8.00

39653

4330000

550

3.3

8.00

30069

3570000

440

4.0

8.00

24792

2855000

330

5.0

8.00

19826

1785000

200

8.0

8.00

12396

1785000

200

8.0

12.00

12396

Job Information can be typed in here for estimates.

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