Doing a bit of research into this as I've been asked for foil on stationery and thinking of doing wedding stationery as a side line and we want to do cards for the school fund raiser this year - as I have all the craft materials and card etc already. I have also bought quite a bit of foil printed ribbon for different things - so being able to do that would be great.
The main decision seems between toner based foil and laminator and limiting myself to card or a traditional foiling machine but are the dies expensive to purchase/ can you make your own? I read something about photopolymer stamps as dies - has anyone done this - how's it done and what can you print onto? I ask because I have a Polydiam UV exposure unit for photopolymer stamp making in storage - there's this plate on E-Bay that seems to indicate I could use this with the exposure unit to make my own polymer dies - and I'd fit a lot onto an A4 sheet.
I don't want to buy on impulse and then decide it was the wrong choice.
I've seen this
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Hot-Foil-Stam...item3a63444d26 it's only a bit more expensive than a hot foil laminator but I assume I have to buy dies for it. There are also a couple of used ones on E-bay but this is cheaper.
Anyone any advice?