Foil Coverage & Cost Planner
Enter the area actually covered by foil rather than charging the whole sheet when that is not how your process is costed.
Enter your job values
Use the real values from your job. Optional fields can stay blank; zero should only be used when the value genuinely does not apply.
Your result will appear here
6 required values are still missing.
Paper bulk, grain and equipment can change the geometry
Booklet creep, fold compensation and spine thickness are physical-production estimates. Whenever a fold, bind, die or laminator controls the finished piece, record the actual stock caliper and the equipment/vendor specification rather than converting GSM to thickness by assumption.
What the result is useful for
Useful for separating foil-material consumption from setup, die and press-time charges.
How the calculation works
Foil area = sheet area × coverage% × quantity × (1 + waste%). Material cost = foil area × entered area rate.
What this calculator cannot know
Real foil consumption depends on web width, stepping/nesting, foil pull, roll format and machine setup.