Our
Embellishment Services
We can process any sheet size up to
1050 x 750mm. However, there are some minor limitations
on image area dimensions within a nominated sheet size.
Please refer to us if your design area extends close to
the edge of a sheet.
We work with papers and paperboards
in specifications which are commonly used in Australia.
If you are considering using either lightweight, very
heavyweight or strongly textured materials, then consultation
with us is desirable to ensure that the design you have
chosen can be satisfactorily reproduced.
We also handle plastic materials such
as PVC and polypropylene in thicknesses up to 1.4mm.
Most coatings are stampable, including
normal offset machine varnishes, gloss or matt plastic
coatings and calendered surfaces, but care is needed with
UV inks and varnishes to ensure that their specifications
have been modified to make them foil stampable.
It is recommended that your varnish
or coating suppliers are made aware in advance that foil
stamping and/or embossing is going to be applied to their
products.
Besides commonly used bright golds and
silvers there are many other foils available including
colours, special effects, diffractional and holographic
patterned styles. Please ask us for a shade selector which
you may use for reference purposes.
Depending on the result required we
utilise single level, multi level or contoured treatments
incorporated into dies made from either magnesium or brass.
If designs are shown to us in advance you can receive
our advice on what type of die is best suited for your
application, and guidance too with regard to desirable
line thicknesses and stock selection.
As with most things, good initial preparation
and planning usually yields the best end result, and so
it is with foil stamping and embossing. We strongly recommend
close consultation with us, if not in the early stages
of design, then certainly before film making and/or printing.
Thus you may use our expertise to your advantage.
You will find examples of our work on
packaged goods sold in supermarkets throughout Australia.
Foil stamping and embossing, when combined
with good design and quality printing, has huge potential
in the world of sales and marketing – potential
which we believe only now is starting to become fully
recognised.
Lorimier welcomes the opportunity of
working with designers to assist them in the utilisation
of the wide range of foils and embossing effects currently
available.
R
Lorimier & Co Pty Ltd
A leading trade supplier of foil stamping
and embossing
services to the printing and packaging industries.
Since our establishment in 1876, the
thread integral to our
success and growth has been our reputation for honesty
and
dependability, a genuine concern for the wellbeing of
our
customers, suppliers and employees, and the constant
maintenance of high standards in all aspects of our
operations.
Reuben Lorimier founded R Lorimier &
Co Pty Ltd in 1876, and in so doing became the pioneer
of embellishment in Melbourne.
He was born in 1843 in London and learned
the craft of gold stamping from his father to whom he
was apprenticed. At the age of 25 he travelled to New
York where he gained valuable experience working with
several leading publishers.
After 9 years he voyaged to Australia
and set up his stamping business in Selbourne Chambers,
Collins Street Melbourne. A move was made to Lincoln Street
Richmond in 1889 and operations continued there until
he sold to Felix Levey in about 1912.
It is worthy of note that in those early
days all stamping was done using manually operated machines,
and it was not until the early 1960's that automatic machines
arrived on the scene. The first of these to come to
Australia - an Heidelberg GTP Platen - was installed at
Lorimier in August 1961.
After the second world war one of Felix
Levey's daughters, Odette, and her husband Alf Wilks,
took over the running of the business, and continued with
it at Laity Street Richmond until 1985 when the Company
was purchased by its present owner - Bruce Johnston.
Continual growth necessitated a move
to 404 George Street Fitzroy in 1992, and yet again to
59 Sheehan Road Heidelberg West in 2003. Lorimier is a
leading trade supplier of foil stamping and embossing
services to the printing and packaging industries.
The thread which has been integral to
the Company's success and growth throughout its long history
has been its reputation for honesty and dependability,
its genuine concern for the wellbeing of its customers,
suppliers and employees, and the constant maintenance
of high standards in all aspects of its operations.
