Die Cutting

At New Era Print Solutions, we provide the die cutting Toronto deserves. Impress your clients or friends with custom-cut business cards, postcards, coasters, and much, much more. Explain your vision and let us put it into practice with unique visuals that express your creative side. First impressions matter.

Die cutting is custom-shaped cutting using a laser-cut steel rule die on a windmill or cylinder press. A sheet of paper or other stock will be fed through the press into an area known as a "jacket" which holds your custom die that will cut out shapes or make perforations and/or creases.

A series of gears will force the stock to rotate at the same speed as the rest of the press, ensuring that any cuts the die makes line up with the printing on the material. This process ensures precise and meticulous cutting and printing services, making your die cut cards, stickers, labels, etc. exactly as you imagined them.

When saving a file with die cutting, you must include a die line stamping mask file in addition to your print file. The mask file must be in the exact position as per the print file. If the area you are die cutting has a colored background, please leave the fill of the background beyond the die line with a bleed.

Take note that the die line file must be vector art created in a vector-based program such as Illustrator. The die line file is used to show where the die cutting needs to be cut. Be sure to only use solid 100% black (color code: C-0%, M-0%, Y-0%, K-100%) to indicate where you would like the printed piece.

Do not use shadows, glows, or grayscale images. The black mask file should be on a plain white background. The accepted die line file types are pdf, eps, or ai. This information and anything else you may want to know about our printing services is also available on our FAQ page along with other resourceful information.

All of our die cutting (as well as our printing services) is done in-house at our Mississauga location just outside of Toronto. Anytime you add foil stamping to your printed products, it does add 1-3 days of production time. Plus, there is a die cost involved with everything that you wish to foil stamp.

Dies can be reused on other printed products or on repeat orders. The die is made out of metal and is generally a one-time fee. The approximate cost per die is an average of $60 - $150 depending on the size of the die.

Once you have purchased a die, the only other cost involved is the die cutting process. The first 1,000 pieces will cost anywhere from $45 - $150 depending on the complexity of the die.