Digital Heat Transfers 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Product Decoration

Digital Heat TransfersDigital heat transfer are a clean, easy and less wasteful alternative to ink when decorating your product. Digital heat transfers can be used to decorate a plethora of different objects including glasses, bottles or even clothing with your favorite logo or design. Choosing this process can save you or your company time and money the next time you want to have your merchandise stylized.

What is Digital Heat Transfer?

Digital heat transfer is a dry process that uses heat, pressure and time to apply an image or graphic to a part. The image is printed onto a polyester film which is then applied directly to the product. The graphics that are applied are pre-printed graphics that offer a wide number of options in color variety. These colors are possible from how the process utilizes four different colors offering a wide spectrum of over 10,000,000 colors for your logo or image.

The process of applying a digital heat transfer ensures that the exact image will be replicated each time. There is no messy, expensive ink involved saving you money. Digital heat transfer is ideal for short-run productions because of the fast, digital process.

Why Choose Digital Heat Transfer?

Choosing digital heat transfer can save you time and money. While it is a dry process like hot stamping, digital heat transfer can produce far more than hot stamping’s limit of one color. With the exception of glass and ceramics, there is no cure time with digital heat transfer which enables you to get your graphic on your product faster when you need it right away.

The digital process allows Grafixx to get you your product in a faster timeframe keeping you from being put into the uncomfortable position of waiting on an overseas company. You can send your artwork electronically to Grafixx cutting down on mailing times. The faster we get your image, the faster you get your product.

Digital heat transfer have also been proven to make more durable and visually appealing labels than their paper counter-parts. With a wide palette of colors to choose from you can help make a more eye-catching product that could stand out from others on the shelf. When consumers grab your product, they won’t be slowly working away at a gluey label but instead your product will continue to tell its message as time passes.

Digital heat transfers are also ideal for short-run products. Typically, when you want to decorate your product a large order must be placed for most overseas companies. Our short-run decorating allows us keep the process affordable and timely for our customers.

Grafixx: the leader in digital heat transfers.

If you have any questions about what digital heat transfers are and how they can benefit your business, please contact Grafixx at 410-646-7800 or fill out our Contact Form. You can also follow us on, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pintrest, and YouTube.

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