by Lara Copeland, writer, Plastics Decorating Offering its customers customizable and name-brand digital printing equipment, Innovative Digital Systems (IDS), Indian Trail, North Carolina, is a digital print integration company that specializes in industrial digital print solutions. With more than 30 years of experience in the production decoration industry, IDS offers a total … [Read more...] about Innovative Digital Systems’ Revolution 360°T
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Thermoplastic Materials for UV Inkjet and Laser Marking
Noncontact digital processes, such as inkjet printing and laser marking on plastics, are modern technologies that offer numerous advantages compared to analog process, e.g., pad and screen printing. Digital processes are cost-effective and allow for decorating and printing of fully assembled products at the end of operations, resulting in better inventory management. One … [Read more...] about Thermoplastic Materials for UV Inkjet and Laser Marking
Inkjet Decoration of Plastics: A Bright Future
It’s hard not to notice that the world is going digital, and that increasingly applies to manufacturing – including industrial printing and decoration. Leading market forecaster I.T. Strategies estimated the global digital industrial and production print retail revenues to print providers growing from just over $35 billion in 2017 to more than $42.5 billion in 2021. This … [Read more...] about Inkjet Decoration of Plastics: A Bright Future
Inkjet Printing and Adhesion of Low Surface Energy Polymers
Long before the first ink drop is jetted onto a plastic product, designers make key decisions that predetermine whether ink printing will be easy or difficult. Adhesion is essentially a superficial phenomenon, depending as it does upon interactions between the liquid ink and the surface of the substrate. Principal factors affecting adhesion are polymer selection (including … [Read more...] about Inkjet Printing and Adhesion of Low Surface Energy Polymers
Q&A: Pad Printing vs. Digital Inkjet for Direct-to-Plastic Printing
While pad printing and digital inkjet technologies for plastics decorating have been around for quite some time, inkjet hasn’t found the same footing that pad printing has enjoyed. However, that doesn’t mean that either technology is necessarily better than the other. Each has its place in the industry and always will. At times, they may even work together for the benefit of … [Read more...] about Q&A: Pad Printing vs. Digital Inkjet for Direct-to-Plastic Printing