With digital heat transfers, setup time is quick, there is no clean up required, and switching between substrates could not be easier.
Before manufacturers and ad specialty companies choose a product decoration method, they have a lot of factors to consider: price, ease of use, price, durability, price, ability to produce short runs, price, and so much more. Did we mention price? There is so much to consider when choosing between screen printing, pad printing, hot stamping, and digital heat transfers. But perhaps no factor weighs more heavily on these decision makers than time. As they say, time is money. So it is important to choose a form of product decoration that not only requires little set up and clean up time, but also makes switching between substrates quick and easy during a decoration run.
Digital Heat Transfers Make It Easy to Switch Between Substrates
One of the most popular methods for decorating plastics, glass, metal and many other substrates, digital heat transfers are a form of product decorating that uses heat and pressure to apply a pre-printed graphic to a part or product. And because it is a dry digital process, setup time is quick, there is no clean up required, and switching between substrates could not be easier.
- Switch rolls of CDigital heat transfer film for each substrate
- Change tooling or nesting fixture
- Adjust machine settings
- And Go!
This provides several benefits over traditional decoration methods. For starters, Digital heat transfers are a dry process, meaning there are no dies, solvents, or chemicals. This leads right into benefit No. 2: no clean up required. This means that you are ready to move on to the next substrate – the next job – almost immediately after a decoration run. And because it is a digital process, setup is quick and there is no need for additional screen setups.
Additional benefits include:
- Used film and cores are recyclable
- This is an automatic process – not taping or cutting required
Digital heat transfers have become increasingly popular amongst product and contract decorators. looking for simplified, cost effective, high quality, consistent product decoration.
Digital Heat Transfers from CDigital
Since 2001, CDigital has been an innovator in developing new systems and processes for using digital print technology to produce 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. Our print technology is by far the most cost effective full color print solution in the product decoration industry today.
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