With Digital heat transfers, short run metal decoration is not only possible, but affordable.
Metal product decoration has continued to advance over the years. Until fairly recently, most metal decorated products were screen or pad printed which requires messy inks, harsh chemicals for cleanup and setups between runs. While this form of production is cost-effective and efficient for large runs, it isn’t ideal for manufacturers and ad specialty companies who need a high quality, short run decorating solution. That’s where digital heat transfers come in – they are the leading method for durable, cost-effective metal product decoration! CDigital is here to elaborate about the benefits of digital heat transfers for metal product decoration.
Metal Product Decorating Using Digital Heat Transfers
Digital heat transfers are perfect for decorating metal, glass, plastics, ceramics, and other substrates. Metal decoration using digital heat transfers is a dry process in which pre-printed digital decals are applied seamlessly to a product using heat, pressure, and dwell time. Digital heat transfers are incredibly beneficial for metal production decoration due to these factors:
- High Quality Digital Accuracy: As the word digital suggests, digital heat transfers are made of computer-generated images (capable of hitting over 10,000 color formulations) – making set up and modifications easier than traditional methods.
- Variable Data: Unlike traditional metal decoration methods (where every image is identical), digital heat transfers can incorporate variable data into separate images.
- Dry Process: Digital heat transfer technology is a dry process. Dry processes require no cure time, speeding up the process and eliminating the need for messy ink and chemicals
- Short Run Printing: Short run printing is 100% possible and completely affordable! This is perhaps the greatest benefit of using digital heat transfers for metal product decoration, since no other method makes this cost-effective option available and affordable for manufacturers and ad specialty companies.
Fast and Affordable Plastic of Decoration with CDigital
Since 2001, CDigital has been an innovator in developing new systems and processes for using digital print technology to produce full color digital heat transfers for the product decoration industry. Because we are both local and fully digital, we can turn jobs around faster and for less money than both overseas printers and local screen or pad printers.
If you have any questions, please contact CDigital by calling 410-646-7800. For customers new to using heat transfers, Cdigital is happy to connect you with heat transfer equipment manufacturers whose machines will work best with our patented film.