Manufacturers and ad specialty companies have a need for a cost-effective, efficient, and high quality way to decorate plastic products, from souvenir cups to water bottle to pens and everything in between. Plastics decorating in its simplest form is the application of a finish or graphic to improve performance or add value to a part. And there are many plastics decorating methods out there. So which one is the most cost effective? Which one produces the highest quality images? Most importantly, which one is the best?
What are the Most Popular Methods for Plastics Decorating?
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Plastics Decorating using Digital Heat Transfers
There are three primary forms of heat transfer decorating: screen print, gravure, and, of course, digital. The process for applying these transfers is threefold, requiring pressure, high temperature, and dwell time. When the customer receives the transfers, they load the printed roll onto the heat transfer machine. The operator sets the machine at specific parameters for the blank part and loads the part onto a nesting fixture to allow a heated silicone decorating head to apply heat and pressure to the part transferring the printed image from the film onto the blank part. Voila! The decorated plastic product is dry and ready to be packaged and shipped.
Benefits of Digital Heat Transfers
- Dry Process
- Multi-Color
- Custom Colors / Formulation
- Lends to Automation
- Environmentally Friendly
- Unlimited Possibilities
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Digital Heat Transfers from Grafixx
Produced right here in the good ole’ U.S. of A., Grafixx digital heat transfer are bringing the advantages of digital transfer technology to an increasing percentage of the product decorating industry. Our transfers offer four color (plus white) printing, allowing for greater details and higher quality images. Our print technology is by far the most cost effective multicolor print solution on the market. Plus, because we are fully digital we can turn the jobs as fast as any local printer.
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