The engraved look, at a lighter lift.
Raised print — thermography — builds the type up off the sheet with heat and resin. It carries much of the feel of engraving at a price built for volume stationery.
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Heat lifts the ink, not a steel plate.
Ink is printed, dusted with a fine resin, and heated until it swells into relief. The result is raised type you can feel — close to engraving in the hand, without cutting a plate. The trade-off: it sits on the surface rather than struck into it, and runs one color at a time.
Most of the tactile lift of engraving at a cost that suits everyday business stationery and volume runs.
No plate to cut — quick to set up and easy to repeat across large quantities.
It builds on the surface, so very fine detail and full saturation favor engraving. We’ll tell you which fits the piece.
Run here, against the same proof.
Raised print is heat and timing — too little and it’s flat, too much and it spreads. We run and check it in the same building, so the volume job matches the proof.
Printed and raised under one roof, checked against the proof — not jobbed out and back.
When a program mixes raised print with engraving or foil, it all runs in the same shop, in register.
If the piece really wants engraving, we say so — raised print earns its place on the right job, not every job.
Where it earns its place.
A raised card across a large team — tactile, on-brand, and priced for the quantity.
Day-to-day correspondence that still reads a notch above flat print.
A raised finish on a large mailing where engraving every piece isn’t the budget.
- Process
- Thermography — resin raised with heat
- Color
- One color per pass
- Feel
- Raised relief, surface-built
- Best for
- Volume stationery on a budget
- Stock
- Text & cover weights — pending
- Turnaround
- Business days — pending