CDigital provides a fast, affordable, eco-friendly, and efficient way to decorate products using durable digital heat transfers.

Are you having trouble wrapping your head around how the digital heat transfer process works? Have no fear! The experts at CDigital are here to break it down for you. Our advanced equipment and technological process makes it possible for us to produce impeccable digital heat transfers that will adhere seamlessly to your part or product for years to come. We offer an incredibly fast, affordable, and efficient method for product decoration that includes short run printing benefits. Keep reading to learn more about our 3-step process. (more…)

CDigital is the leader in digital heat transfers! Our print technology is by far the most cost effective full color print solution in the industry.

The product decoration industry is riddled with options – screen printing, pad printing, hot stamping, and digital heat transfers. Each has its own unique benefits, but only one constantly outperforms the rest: Digital Heat Transfers.

How Digital Heat Transfers Work

The Design Phase

It all starts with the design, and if the name didn’t give it away, digital heat transfers are designed and printed digitally.

“There are none of the traditional set-up requirements or costs,” explains Matt Regan, senior vice president for CDigital, formerly trademarked as Grafixx.

You simply send your image to CDigital, where we verify the image will print correctly then send it to be printed on one of our high quality digital presses. It’s that simple. And because it is a digital process, variable data, such as barcodes, text, or numbers, can be incorporated into each individual transfer.

Moving to the Printers

Once the file is verified by the customer, the real fun can begin. The image is sent to a high speed digital printer, where a five-color dry toner image is printed on the underside of a polyester film. The underside of this film is then coated in an appropriate adhesive depending on the substrate or product. The film is then wound onto cores, and packaged for shipment.

Digital heat transfers are printed using a completely dry process, meaning they are ready for shipping immediately after printing.

Transfer Application

Once your shipment arrives, you are ready to immediately begin the application process. Digital transfers can be applied using a large selection of conventional hot stamp and heat transfer equipment. Perhaps best of all, digital heat transfers are  fully cured upon application, on any plastic, and most metal products, instantly ready for shipping after  decoration. With other decorating technologies, inks need to  be cured,,  solvents must be flamed off. This not only costs you time and money, it also adds to production turn times.

Digital Heat Transfers from CDigital

CDigital is the leader in digital heat transfers! Our print technology is by far the most cost effective full color print solution in the product decoration industry. Plus, because we are fully digital, we can turn the jobs as faster than screen or pad printers who offer limited color print capabilities for the decorated products that they offer.

If you are new to using transfers, don’t worry. We will help you get started and happily connect you with transfer machine manufacturers whose machines will work perfectly with our heat transfers and your products.

For more information about the benefits of Digital Heat Transfers, you can contact CDigital at 410-646-7800 or fill out one of our Contact Forms for easy online communication.  You can also follow our Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pintrest, and YouTube accounts for our latest news.

When it comes to product decoration, aesthetics is your No. 1 concern. According to researchers from the University of Miami and the California Institute of Technology, aesthetics – color, logo, and overall product or packaging design – influence where a shopper’s eyes land on a shelf and thus impact purchasing decisions.

“The big idea here is that perceptual processes happen in the brain in parallel with economic value computations and thus influence how economic decisions are made,” said Milica Mormann, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology.

Of course, aesthetics are just one part of the puzzle, at least in terms of product decoration. Durability, affordability, and ease of use are a few other factors manufacturers and ad specialty companies consider before choosing a product decoration platform. (more…)