Scienta Limited is the home of lithographic cold foil application systems and in-line UV film casting application techniques.

Scienta cold foil application equipment is not available for sale in Germany

Create spectacular designs which are not possible in other processes.

Lithographic cold foil application is a printing process that allows metallic foil to be positioned anywhere on a printed sheet with litho precision. It is possible to produce half tones, fine lines, fine reverse outs and full sheet coverage and all at normal litho speeds.

The process involves two units of a litho press. In the first unit a specially prepared but commercially available adhesive which has the same base and rheology as ink is applied to the substrate by a standard litho plate in the foiling pattern required.

Metallic cold foil passes between the blanket cylinder and impression cylinder of the second print unit where the aluminum portion of the foil adheres to the adhesive in the printed pattern.

Predominantly silver foil is used and then overprinted by the CMYK process, or spot colours to produce any colour of foil anywhere on the sheet. Foil colour layout constraints are no longer an issue.

This process requires a minimum of 6 print units plus coater although it is also possible to cold foil off-line with a two colour press.

Scienta equipment is the second generation of cold foil application systems as saves up to 60% of foil usage over the first generation equipment still offered by most other manufacturers.

Cold foil was first introduced in Germany in the 1990's and has matured into an established market in the last few years.