What Is Flat Bed Die Cutting Process?
Most companies and people who are not involved in paper-production, book binding, or printing business may wonder how things like printed words and symbols, which are embossed on book covers and watermarks or colophons on paper and boards, are made. What most people assume is that books and other printed materials of like nature are made with digital printers.
While that may be the case, even in this highly digitized day and age, the old-fashioned practices nevertheless prevail – one of them being die casting and cutting. But what are dies and what is die cutting?
Dies are specially shaped tools that are employed to cut, shape, or stamp out materials, most often with the assistance of a press. Dies can also be employed to print materials in a similar manner to old-fashioned printing-presses. Dies are made via a precise process called die cutting – a method which used to involve long hours of painstaking work. Today, die cutting - a term employed for both the creation of the dies and the usage of them, is usually accomplished with the assistance of specialised machinery.
The most common method of die cutting is flat bed die cutting; although a process called rotary die cutting also exists.
A Quick Look at Flat Bed Die Cutting – A Surviving Art
Unlike rotary die cutting which feeds the material to be used into a machine that rotates and then cuts out the desired shapes in a long, unbroken chain, flat bed die cutting involves a far more rudimentary albeit equally cheaper approach. The process employs set dies that are stamped unto the material which is set on a flat bed; hence the name. This is then removed and replaced either manually or automatically with more material to be stamped out or cut out.
While rotary die cutting may seem like a far more ideal way to stamp out large numbers of materials, the fact is that more basic flat bed die cutting allows for a wider range of materials such as a wide range of paper, cardstock, cardboard, wood, laminate, and even metal sheets can be stamped out with whatever preset die is desired. This process allows for making an assortment of aesthetic labels, model patterns for kits, and customised die-cast parts, accents and finishes possible and inexpensive.
If you’re looking for a die cutting service to suit your needs, a company that will process your chosen material and that can work within you budget, then check out Triforme.
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