Edited by Erin La Row, editor, Plastics Decorating Heat transfers have long been a technique to decorate products. It’s a process that’s been around for about 70 years, according to Eric Steinwachs, director, sales and marketing at CDigital. Traditional heat transfers use wet ink printing methods like screen printing, flexography or gravure. This process can produce images … [Read more...] about CDigital’s Digital Heat Transfers
Heat Transfers
Ask the Expert: Understanding Heat Transfers in the Plastics Industry
Plastics Decorating The name “heat transfer” has become a generic term referring to a preprinted image applied to a product using heat and pressure to transfer the image off a carrier to a product. There are different ways to print a heat transfer, including gravure, flexo, screen or digitally printed transfers. Plastics Decorating recently sat down with CDigital’s director of … [Read more...] about Ask the Expert: Understanding Heat Transfers in the Plastics Industry
Industrial Decorating Solutions’ CER Technology
by Lara Copeland, writer, Plastics Decorating CER technology from Industrial Decorating Solutions (IDS), a division of ITW located in Oyonnax, France, utilizes a traditional decorating method that has been around for decades – hot stamp/heat transfer – while incorporating cutting edge technology that facilitates unprecedented decorating rates and product quality. This … [Read more...] about Industrial Decorating Solutions’ CER Technology
Digital Heat Transfer Solutions: Where Quality Meets Simplicity
Article provided courtesy of Digital Decorations, LLC For the printing of shaped products, there are several ways to get it done from conventional printing technologies like screen or pad printing, to more modern ways, such as direct inkjet printing. But there is one technology that is not as common but should be known for its benefits – digital heat transfer decoration. Heat … [Read more...] about Digital Heat Transfer Solutions: Where Quality Meets Simplicity
A Look at Two Different Print Technologies: Dye Sublimation and UV
by Lily Hunter, product manager, textiles and consumables, Roland DGA Corporation Since the introduction of the first personal computer, we have been ushered into the "digital age." Technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our daily lives, and this phenomenon has been no different in the digital printing arena. Digital printing technology is pushing the … [Read more...] about A Look at Two Different Print Technologies: Dye Sublimation and UV