MINC, Laser Printing and selective transfer
 

So I printed a card via the laser printer. I only wanted to foil certain words. I did that and oops...the places that were not covered by foil have transferred to the transfer folder.

How do I prevent this?

And since these are words in between, it will be very difficult to cover the rest with paper or something. How do you guys do selective foiling :o

Cover the elements you don't want foiled with parchment paper. You can try removing the toner on the carrier sheet you have toner on by running the carrier sheet through your laminator multiple times with a blank clean piece of paper to clean it. I've also double printed images so I can foil one element at a time. Hide the elements you don't want printed, print and foil, send the paper through your printer again after hiding the elements already foiled and unhiding the elements you want to foil next. Hope this helps.

So no other way than to cover it, eh?

Other than trying to print multiple times hiding and unhiding no other way. I've had Sucess doing this, but have to manually feed the sheet, and being careful to feed it in the same way each time. Sometimes it works perfectly, but not always. The parchment paper works great for covering elements not wanted, but I don't like that it's slippery. Maybe someone has a better method, because I'd be interested too.

I just put some low tack tape over what I don't want foiled. Just make sure it's really low tack so it doesn't peel up the paper. The heat from the MINC really makes the tape want to stick. I had success doing this with blue painters tape that I de-tackified by putting it down on my jeans multiple times.

ETA: I actually used this to have the inside foil color of some writing silver and then the heart surrounding it gold. Worked perfect. Foiling came out great.

If you had a Silhouette Cameo, you could scan your image and make a mask for the design you want to foil. I haven't tried it yet but I think it would work.

http://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.spli...d2ba0e68b5.jpg

That's a pic of the Father's Day card I made for my Fiance using the technique I described. If I didn't want silver foil on the words I could've just left it with only gold foil on the heart.