Thermography Printing Services

Thermography Printing Applications in and around Louisville & Shepherdsville, KY

Ernie's Print Shop offers thermography printing services to businesses and individuals in Louisville & Shepherdsville, KY and the surrounding areas. Make your printed products stand out! Thermography provides a unique look for your prints that will impress your event guests, clients, or business partners. 

Thermography is the process of spreading thermal powders on the wet ink of a print application and heating it to melt the powder into a single solid mass, which is raised above the printed surface. It is also known as “imitation engraving”. However, an engraving dye is not needed with thermography. The process is faster than engraving and is less expensive.

Thermography can add value to many ordinary print applications. Some of the products that can benefit from thermography applications include letterheads, greeting cards, invitations, business cards, marketing applications, announcements, and envelopes. Thermography can make the appearance of many print applications more distinctive and provide a customized look that you can't get with any other method.

The Thermography Printing Process

Thermography is successful when the powdered resins are applied to a printed surface when the printing ink is still wet. This enables the powder to stick to the printed areas. Any powder on non-image areas and any excess powder on the image areas is suctioned off the substrate before the heating takes place.

The heat is produced with electric heating elements that are placed inside an oven or tunnel. The powdered substrate passes into the heat tunnel where the powder melts onto the heated substrate and is fused with the wet ink. The substrate must be raised to the temperature of the melting point of the powder for the process to work correctly. When the heating process is complete, the sheet is cooled and the melted powder hardens into a raised thermographic image.

Contact us to learn how thermography printing can add value to your printed products and to get started on a free consultation. We offer volume discounts!