Hot Stamping machine on Heidelberg Windmill 10x15

Still trying to get this to work. I have connected everything I am just not sure how to put on the extra bar that has a sort of knife on it. Can’t seem to fit it anywhere. I am guessing its used so that the foil doesn’t touch the cylinder?

Any help much appreciated! :)

ok figured it out (sort of)

now how do you get the polymer to stay on the base while hot stamping? what kind of glue would I need to use? :)

Wow! I am no expert here. But are you seriously considering hot stamping with plastic photopolymer????? Wouldn’t the heat required for the foil stamping pretty much melt the photopolymer?

Rick

The photopolymer is fine and nothing happens to it though I have only tried it a couple of times since the method I have been using to glue the photopolymer to the base doesn’t work. The glue burns and the photopolymer comes off.

I was able to make some unsuccesful impressions but that was due to press hitting too hard.

There is a big chance that I am doing this completely wrong! ;)

Oska

p.s. I am using the aluminium base photopolymer

Some grades of photopolymer are suitable for molding and stamping, but at lower ranges than used by metal forms. Then you would need foil that works at the temperatures required by the photopolymer, and substrates suitable to the those conditions. Metal dies are much more useful.
Foil stamping really requires knowledge and experience. Going into it blind is going to cost you a lot in time and material. Any foil supplier should be able to explain some of this to you. Don’t even consider using old foil off eBay.

If I was doing stamping, I would order metal plates.

thanks for the info guys!