Reception Products Techniques Contact / Access Partners French version Soft waist Stamping Gilding Embossing Thermo relief "A team and know-how serving your requirements " The advantages of relief printing The visual, tactile and emotional impact of relief printing obtained with a real engraved tool immediately creates the difference and breeds confidence. The printing processes that these engraving tools allow, intaglio , stamping , embossing , hot stamping more commonly known as hot foil stamping , provide high quality, authentic and secure paper communication. The soft size The term " intaglio " applies to metal engraving; chisel, etching, by removal of metal. Great know-how of traditional craftsmanship, copper engraving is the prerogative of very beautiful stationery. By extension it qualifies the impression obtained thanks to the tool thus engraved, by the play of a very strong pressure on a paper which keeps its thickness in the hollows of the engraving. To know more Stamping The stamping , like the intaglio, uses metal blocks, copper or steel, debossed. The paper is forced by a "counterpart" into the hollow of the engraving to be printed with the ink it contains. To know more Gilding The generic term printing or hot stamping covers the transfer by bonding of pigments from colored films onto the support to be printed. Light or dark, golden or silver, mat or shiny, metallic, pigmented, pastel, or diffraction colors, strongly enhance elegant graphic concepts. To know more Embossing Ancestral technique of communication by punching or stamping, embossing uses the play of light and shadow created by a relief or hollow pattern. It powerfully reinforces visual and tactile impressions through paper work. It is the mark of elegance. To know more Thermo relief This printing process, thermography , makes it possible to obtain a relief without engraving. It consists in melting in the oven a thickness of transparent resin powder, generally glossy, on the fresh ink at the output of offset or letterpress printing . To know more Member of the Grands Ateliers de France News - info Register Obtaining the label: "Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant" by Les ateliers Asdourian & Gustave Gernez Folder Double security for your letterheads: Engraving and Watermark Lexicon Glossary of terms used in our business The visit in pictures of the Asdourian & Gustave Gernez workshops Avoid the hassle of business cards scattered in your pockets, use the WizCard ® Sustainable development: a concern of our workshops Obtaining the label: "Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant" by Les ateliers Asdourian & Gustave Gernez Home | Contacts / Access | Customer area | Version française Products: Correspondence | Prestige and events | WizCard® Techniques card : The intaglio | The stamping | The gilding | Embossing | The thermo relief | Offset and PAO The Asdourian & Gustave Gernez workshops - 60, rue Louveau - 92320 Châtillon - Tel. +33 (0) 1 47 35 81 01