Creating Artwork For Digital Embossing

Setting up artwork for Digital Embossing is straightforward. We simply need an additional separation to act as a mask for all the areas that you would like to have Digitally Embossed on your work. This can be supplied as a separate PDF file or as an additional channel within your PDF.

The preparation of artwork is the same for Low Lift and High Lift Embossing

IMPORTANT - Please make sure that your additional PDF is identical in all respects (size, orientation, crops, position of images and text etc) to your CMYK artwork.

Creating Artwork for Digital Embossing

We have used an example here which is a complex design but the effects can be equally as striking on simplier designs.

Please note this is an example only. We would recommed a 3mm Quiet Border in from crops when Digitally Embossing any print work

Step 1

Create your print ready full colour artwork as per our guidelines

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Step 2

Create a Black & White image file of all the areas you want Digitally Embossed

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Step 3

Create a PDF and upload your artwork following the instructions on our Calculate Your Embossing Coverage page to obtain your Digital Embossing Coverage

View Example PDF Here

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