Foil Labels Basics

How, where when and why metallic labels may benefit your business

Attention-getting metallic labels are an easy way to make your correspondence, sale prices, advertisements or business cards stand out. If you have a message to deliver to your customers, using metallic foil labels to do it guarantees that you'll have their attention.

Silver, bronze and gold foil labels tend to be available from almost any printing or office supply shop, both in blank sheets that you can customize yourself or in highly detailed custom-printed orders. Before placing an order, do the following to understand the foil labels basics:

1. Learn the easiest ways to use metallic labels in your business;

2. Choose advanced options in foil labels, like stamping or embossing;

3. Opt for custom printing or otherwise professional personalization of gold and silver labels.

 

Keep it simple with blank gold and silver foil stickers

Foil seals and stickers make your correspondence, shelf displays and products stand out by drawing attention with their metallic glitter. Customer also tend to perceive them as "high-end" since they are more expensive, and more elegant looking, than plain adhesive paper stickers.
Try: Online Labels sells blank gold and silver foil stickers and labels appropriate for use as anything from address labels to bar codes and pricing stickers, in a variety of sizes and configurations. You can also purchase foil seals on which you can write directly from companies like Berger Novelties & Awards.

Get extra attention with fine embossed silver and gold labels

Make your announcements stand out even more--and appear even more luxurious--by using stamped or embossed foil labels. Stamping creates impressions into the foil, while embossing results in a raised surface, so a combination of the two can be quite dramatic. You can purchase foil labels pre-stamped or pre-embossed, or have a custom printer complete the process for you.
Try: Geno Jezek explains the process of embossing in more detail, while wiseGEEK gives you the lowdown on foil stamping.

Turn gold and silver foil labels into custom statements

Using foil labels automatically makes your correspondence or products stand out, but you can give them even more extra pizazz by having them custom printed. Options you'll need to choose from for custom printing include the number of colors of ink, specialized graphics, as well as the size, shape and grade of foil labels used.
Try: Sticky Business' testimonial page gives you an idea of what creative buyers can do with custom printed foil labels. Labels, Stickers and More provides a broad explanation of what shape, size and printing methods may be used to produce custom foil labels.

 

• Always check whether the silver or gold stickers you're purchasing have permanent or temporary adhesive; it looks tacky if your pricing or promotional tags fall off items, but at the same time, it's inconvenient to find that what was supposed to be a temporary sticker has permanently adhered.

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