Embossing on Heidelberg Cylinder

[BenCruise]

Hello,

We have a Heidelberg Cylinder and have been die-cutting for many years, however have never tried embossing/debossing. Recently were aquired a Honeycomb chase which we are lead to believe will now enable us to emboss. Would love to get some info how to go about doing this as dont want to try it with out some advice, for fear of smashing up the cylinder.

 

[pdan]

Too complicated. I think you would need a flexible counter for the cylinder, which I don't see available so you would have to go old school and create in on press which is unrealistic for your first counter. (It's a chore on a platen press. On a cylinder it might be considered crazy.) Look up "create emboss die counter".
Embossing is a bit of an art form of makeready beyond which I would care to undertake on a cylinder.
I operate a Heidy cylinder and windmills.
If I had to I might make it happen. Might
Ask over at Briarpress.org

 

[Platenworks]

Not that difficult to do. Mill down the honeycomb from the top side, so it's lower than your cutting rule. Take off the die cutting jacket, lock up emboss die, put some white engravers on the cylinder. Strike the emboss die into the engravers board a bit, trim some of the excess from the counter material to clean up your image. always did this for simple images, not too much detail. Sheet gain (or sheet sag) was an issue, so larger dies won't fit the printed sheet perfectly if the image was running vertical. But totally do-able! We'd run 4up letterheads, register emboss, but had to do a 4 die lockup to get them lined up.