We can imprint your folders with a logo, or imprint any text layout in any font exactly as you want, because it is done as an image.

These can look amazingly elegant whether in colour (gold is the standard option) or blind debossed (i.e. indented into the folder using heat and pressure but no colour).

Your image is printed to film then exposed under UV light on a coated plate, then etched, to produce the hot-stamping die which is carefully leveled on the press to produce an even imprint. There is a setup charge, then a stamping cost per folder.

The setup charge is based on area. Math is not your friend here, as you may recall that doubling the sides of a square quadruples the area, and the cost. 1 inch=2.54cm for the metrically inclined; the print industry here still uses Imperial measurements.

Depending on the logo, you do want sufficiently large area to prevent fine detail from being obscured, or small detailed spaces filled in, when printing on the textured leatherette material. Our maximum imprint area without outsourcing is 5"x12" (or 12"x5") but logos with good line separation can be done very nicely at a 2x2 or 3x3 size, for example. Roughly 90% of the logos we print are between 4 and 12 square inches, mostly at the higher range.  A school might have a crest with text beneath it, for example, and 3" wide by 4" high is usually ideal.

Enter the specifications for your logo as you choose your folder options. You can upload your file now or e-mail your file (minimum resolution must be 300 dpi) to sales@musicfolder.com referencing your order. If you're not a graphics expert you can send us more than 1 file, ideally the originals even if in colour.

Preferred format is PDF. EPS, TIFF, GIF, JPG may also be acceptable. The printing process needs *monochrome* black and white, not grayscale (which people also call 'black and white'). There is no shading with foil- it's there, or it's not.

• The best place for logos is mid-top front, centered.
• If you need formatting or design help or want an opinion on how well your logo will work and what size we recommend, email us all types of files that you have, and we'll respond.
• If you’re designing a logo, typically people put text below a crest or graphic element.
• Stacking 2 lines of text is preferable to having a very wide single line, as setup price corresponds to the area of a rectangle drawn around the total print area.
• It’s typically much less expensive and very much better for registration accuracy to combine the text (in any font you want) with a crest or graphic element as one logo with everything in it, than to attempt separate text imprinting in step 3 and logo near it in step 4.
• Larger logos may have some positioning restrictions as the surface must be perfectly level, so we can't come too near the boundary of a pocket or its expanding edge below, for example.

• Mid-top front; centered
• Upper right front; right-justified
• Lower right front; right-justified
• Inside folder in upper top left
• Upper left back outer edge; left-justified
• Mid-top back; centered
• Lower left back outer edge; left-justified

Usual position for choir name imprinting is mid-top front center of the folder. 

The next most popular is bottom right front for smaller logos but we have to be well clear of any edge unevenness like that from the pocket pleat underneath the cover. Hot foil stamping is very pressure sensitive and requires even, equal pressure.

Depending on how busy we are we can assist with logo creation or file preparation at reasonable cost, or shop it out to graphics professionals.