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A 3D-Printed Business Card Embosser

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97 points surprisetalk | 1 comments | 17 Sep 25 16:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mikepurvis ◴[20 Sep 25 03:11 UTC] No.45309951[source]▶
It would be interesting to try to have actual registration so that the embossed design can interact with the printed copy rather that just being an arbitrary background decoration.
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ugh123 ◴[20 Sep 25 04:15 UTC] No.45310305[source]▶
The way I understand your comment is you could have a scene or objects printed on a card, then line up an embossed design over the print to create depth or imprint specific areas of the print creating various effects. That would be interesting
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em-bee ◴[20 Sep 25 06:38 UTC] No.45311008[source]▶
also a tool that generates the emboss pattern based on the design of the card. so that for example a logo on the card gets embossed.
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cm2187 ◴[20 Sep 25 07:28 UTC] No.45311263[source]▶
or the text in 3d, like credit cards used to be
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spwa4 ◴[20 Sep 25 07:57 UTC] No.45311380[source]▶
I think that was not done by embossing but by "3d printing" on the business card directly.
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1. cm2187 ◴[20 Sep 25 08:28 UTC] No.45311532{3}[source]▶
You mean business or credit card? Credit Cards I believe was embossing, you had the negative of the numbers on the back. They did that because before you had electronic card readers, merchant were taking credit card payments by making a carbon copy of the credit card number on the invoice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter