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Handle with care

For converters, system maintenance is the key to running a smooth and successful hot stamping operation. “The maintenance of hot stamping dies is often ignored. Simply acquiring a super-fine polishing stone can make all the difference in the world,” says See. “After a certain amount of usage, say five thousand repeats and up, the images on a die will begin to lose focus. Friction will round over the edges of the image and start to blur the final result.”