photopolymer die for foil stamping foil printing embossing debossing or a combination thereof is disclosed the die has a metal backing plate on which is mounted a photopolymer layer which has a number of micro grooves therein preferably the micro grooves are arranged in a swatch like pattern preferably images have adjacent regions each with a different pattern of micro grooves the spacing between adjacent micro grooves can be resolvable by the human eye or cannot application_number US 201013321832 A description as seen in fig1 the die 1 of the preferred embodiment has a steel backing plate 2 above which is provided a photopolymer layer 3 the preferred photopolymer is a product produced by tokyo ohka kyogo of kawasaki near tokyo japan and sold under the trade name tfpp this polymer is a semi conductor in terms of heat transmission and is able to be etched using known photoresistive techniques in particular the photo resistive materials are able to be processed with water and thus are environmentally acceptable the photopolymer layer 3 is etched using the abovementioned conventional photographic and photo resist techniques so as to create an image that image can include letters of the alphabet numbers and a wide array of images such as the flower having numerous petals which is illustrated in fig4 such an image 5 has a number of regions 6 for example the image 5 of.