Talk to me about foil printers

[bcr]

I saw a Peleman Flat Bed Foil Printer in a store and the owner gave me a quick demo.

I am thinking about getting one, primary use is for gold foil cover text on hard bound documents. Think bound thesis but in textured hard bound fabric covers.

Previously I was looking at getting a gold foil stamping machine where you manually set out the letters and it presses them in.
This device looks like a lot less hassle than that though.

There's various other in-house merchandise and promotional applications I can see for this, but wanted to ask if anyone has any suggestions or other recommendations for alternatives or better equipment? This machine is about 7k (EUR).

Link:

Flat Bed Foil Printer (UK Version) - Peleman Industries Ltd. UK

The Flat Bed Foil Printer lets you quickly and easily customise your event printed matter, hard covers, agendas, business cards ...

peleman.com

 

[SoggyWinter]

If you get one, please share your experience and if it isn't confidential, profit margins using this.

 

[bill kahny]

I would like to know you opinion also. I look at these from time to time as a step in between a ricoh 7210 with gold or our HEIDELBERG windmill leafing press.

 

[Ynot_UK]

May be worth going to see one, although "user friendly software" in the specs could be a PITA. I'd prefer a print driver where I could choose a layer from existing Adobe workflows. Also the USB connectivity ain't great, I'd prefer to hang it off the network, then it would be a true print on demand machine for everyone with the print driver.

 

[bcr]

May be worth going to see one, although "user friendly software" in the specs could be a PITA. I'd prefer a print driver where I could choose a layer from existing Adobe workflows. Also the USB connectivity ain't great, I'd prefer to hang it off the network, then it would be a true print on demand machine for everyone with the print driver.

Yes fair point hadn't thought of that

 

[jenmat512]

We’ve been trying to move away from metal set type and looked at the Impress System but it did not do well on textured cover material - created a lot of voids, even on the premade FastBack composition hard covers. Interested to hear if you have better luck.

 

[jwheeler]

 

[ReproElectroProspero]

I'm very interested in this as well. Would love folks ideas of approximate pricing and utility of entry level foiling machines. We wanted to start offering some gold foiling for a couple customers in our inplant, but just recently got the prices back from Ricoh to add 5th color (inline gold similar to foiling) and it was close to $20,000! I could buy several foiling machines for that much imho.