What’s the Best Hot Stamping Foil for Fishing Lures
In fishing lure production, the choice of hot stamping foil for fishing lures is an important point, it determines the final light-reflecting effect and fish attraction of fishing lures. What’s the best hot stamping foil for fishing lures? There are many hot stamping foil brands in the market, such as German KURZ, Japan OIKE, REKO, MURATA, and USA CROWN. How to you choose the suitable foils for a new lure project? Here is some guidance.
Purpose of Hot Stamping Foil Process
1. Bionic light reflection, enhancing the fish-attracting performance.
The predatory fish normally identify prey by its scale reflection, the ordinary ink printing is colored by pigments, has weak reflection. The hot stamping foil is a vacuum aluminium coating, far more reflective than ink printing, it’s a common finish process for lure baits to enhance the catch chance.
2. Achieve fine fish scale or special patterns.
The hot stamping foils have fine multi-layered textures and rich patterns, it brings more finish options and fashions to fishing lures, such as fine fish scales pattern, ripple pattern, holographic laser shining, these are what the printing works can not make.
3. Premium appearance and decoration
The laser holographic foil has strong shining sight shock to consumers, the bionic fish scale foil brings exquisite feelings to consumers, both can enhance the lures appearance impression and product positioning, make additive value to lure brands.
Minson Lure is an expert fishing lure manufacturer with 15 years of experience, founded by the former senior engineer of RAPALA Shenzhen OEM factory. The company has rich experience in the design and development of various lure baits, offers comprehensive OEM/ODM service. From our long-term engineering experience, we share our choosing on hot stamping foils below.
American Crown Roll Leaf Foil
1. Features
- Higher brightness, strong laser shining performance and mirror reflecting effect, rich patterns for rainbow laser or heavy shining, strong visual attraction to target fish under strong light.
- Higher processing tolerance for stamping temperature, 120-145℃, higher tolerance for stamping pressure, bringing a higher yield rate and lower requirements on the stamping machine.
- Higher cost performance, half the cost of Japanese foils.
2. Applications
- Large volume of production.
- Cost-effective middle-end lure products.
Japanese Murata Gleam Foil
1. Features
- Excellent on fine-scale pattern foils, lifelike bionic fish appearance, natural light diffuse reflection, more realistic fishbait performance.
- Thinner foil thickness, the edge is not easy to pull up after stamping, suitable for lures with complex body shapes.
- Lower process tolerance for stamping temperature, 110-130℃, lower tolerance for stamping pressure, higher requirements on the stamping machine and operation.
- Higher price.
2. Applications
- High bionic lure baits.
- Lure baits with complex body shapes.
- Premium high-end lure baits.
Conclusion
According to the different lure product positioning and technical requirements, the lure brands can choose different stamping foils, if prefer cost performance and good quality, they can choose American Crown foils, if prefer premium quality and higher technique, they can choose Japanese Gleam foils. Minson Lure team has rich experience in lure bait projects, as lure manufacturing experts, we have know-how in different foil materials, hardware, designs, lure tuning. We are committed to offering clients the most perfect solution to meet their technical requirements at a very reasonable cost, continuously creating value for clients.
