About: Heat Transfers:

Cost Effective!

This is Great for smaller Quantities, where Full Colour Options are expensive on Screenprinting

The process of transferring images to a large variety of products without messy inks by-products or screens is possible with Heat Transfer Technology. The process is fast, it lasts and it is profitable.
In the early days, Heat transfer printing were principally used in the printing of novelty items, such as polyester tops and t-shirts. Today heat transfer printing has gained significant importance and favor in several industries - especially in the apparel industry as an alternative for printing fabric in an agile manufacturing environment.
Heat transfer printing is clean and environmentally safe, which makes it appealing in today's health and safety conscience work environments. There are no suspect liquid by-products. The only by product is paper. Heat Transfer printing is the primary element in apparel manufacturing operations utilizing the increasingly popular agile manufacturing. It is the perfect medium for the demands of today's marketplace - short run and sample production.
This use in agile manufacturing has been made possible through development and refinement of dye-sublimation printing. With the help of specially formulated dye-sublimation inks and advances in graphics and RIP software packages, operators now have greater control and flexibility which results in a better quality end product. Now short runs of fabrics or even individual cut parts can be printed efficiently, quickly, and cost-effectively in response to real market demand.

Applications:

Point of purchase banners, signage, displays, skirting, carpeting, etc.
Advertising specialties - mouse pads, wrist pads, beverage insulators, clip boards, etc.
Ceramic tiles, wall murals and interior design
Snow skis, snow boards, cycling helmets, in-line skates, water sports equipment
Gaming tables , chips
Lettering, Rhinestones/crystals
Uni-sub wood, clipboards, plaques, signage, vending machines message boards, table tops, counter tops, flooring, etc.
Microfiber based sports apparel, T-shirts, caps, swimsuits, jackets, tote bags, cut apparel parts, large format textiles, etc.

About: Vinyl Cutters:

A vinyl sign cutter (sometimes known as a cutting plotter) is used by professional poster and billboard sign-making businesses to produce weather-resistant signs, posters, and billboards using self-colored adhesive-backed vinyl film that has a removable paper backing material. The vinyl can also be applied to car bodies and windows for large, bright company advertising and to sailboat transoms. A similar process is used to cut tinted vinyl for automotive windows.
Colors available are generally limited only by the collection of vinyl on hand. To prevent creasing of the material, it is stored in rolls. Typical vinyl roll sizes are 24-inch, 36-inch and 48-inch width.
Generally the hardware is identical to a traditional plotter except that the ink pen is replaced by a very sharp knife that is use to cut out each shape, and the plotter may have a pressure control to adjust how hard the knife presses down into the vinyl film, allowing designs to be fully or partly cut out. The vinyl knife is usually shaped like a plotter pen and is mounted on ball-bearings so that the knife edge rotates to face the correct direction as the plotter head moves.
Sign cutters are primarily used to produce single-color line art. Multiple colors can be cut and assembled but the assembly process is extremely painstaking if the cut sections are thin and flexible.
As with the pen plotter, sign cutting plotters are in decline for general billboard and sign design. They are being replaced by wide-format inkjet printers that use special fade-resistant UV-protected solvent-based inks, which can directly print onto fabrics, vinyls, or plastic sheeting. These large inkjet printers have the added advantage of performing smooth color transitions and photo printing, which sign cutters cannot duplicate.
However, sign cutting plotters are still very much in use for precision cutting of graphics produced by wide-format inkjet printers, for example to produce shaped stickers and window graphics.

Applications:

Window Graphics

Signage

Vehicle Graphix

Banners

About: Laser Engraving:

Fast, Cost Effective and Permanent Soloution

Lasers can engrave on just about any material. The most popular materials in the engraving fields are coated metals, wood, acrylic, glass, leather, marble, plastic, and host of synthetic materials made specifically for lasers. You can think of a laser as a light source similar to a light bulb - a light bulb will emit energy out all around it.

Applications:

Award Engraving
Engrave custom awards and recognition products from acrylic, marble, brass, crystal and many more materials.

Wood Engraving
From cabinetry to model making to photo frames, the laser is used throughout the wood industry with stunning results.

Glass Engraving and Etching
From cabinetry to model making to photo frames, the laser is used throughout the wood industry with stunning results.

Fabric Engraving & Embossing
Etch designs in natural and synthetic fabrics with your own designs. Easily etch any image into cotton, twill, leather, and more.

Fabric and Appliqué Cutting
Create a seared edge on your fabric cuts with the highly accurate precision of a laser cutting out your custom designs.

Laser Marking Plastics
The FiberMark will mark engineered plastics, creating a contrasting logo, barcode, or serial number on your plastic parts.

About: Pad Prining:

Promotional pens can be personalised using a number of different methods, one of which is pad printing. Considered one of the most versatile printing processes, pad printing is most popular because of its ability to print on compound angles and three-dimensional objects. With increasingly stylised and ergonomic printed pens and other promotional items on the market, pad printing is the obvious choice for a clear, defined image.

Applications:

Medical devices (surgical instruments, etc)
Implantable & in body medical items (catheter tubes, contact lenses, etc.)
Golf ball logos/graphics
Letters on computer keyboards and calculator keys
Pens, Lighters, Logos on diaries, Front plates, Keyboards, Switches, Bottles, Key rings, Stamp mounts

About: Silkscreening:

Every business can benefit from giving away articles of clothing with their company name or logo on them. If somebody is wearing a t-shirt with your business's name or website address, imagine how many people will see them wearing it. If they go about their daily activities and run normal errands such as shopping, going to the bank, the pharmacy, or wherever - it's basically like free advertising for you!

Applications:

Screenprinting inks can be used to work with a variety of materials, such as textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, glass, metal, and plastic

 

About: Embroidery:

These days virtually all modern embroidery machines are computer controlled and specifically engineered for embroidery. Industrial/commercial embroidery machines and sewing/embroidery machines both have a hooping or framing system that holds the framed area of fabric tautly and securely underneath the sewing needle and move it around automatically to create a design from a digital embroidery file (pre-made pattern)
Both can read and sew out embroidery design files (of various types) with varying degrees of user input required depending on its capabilities.
For example sewing-embroidery machines generally only having one needle will require the user to change thread colors "on the fly" where as a multi-needle (industrial) machine having more needles can generally be threaded up all at once prior to running the design. This method also requires the user to input the correct color (needle) change sequence into the machine beforehand.
Modern (industrial) embroidery machines can trim and change colors automatically and can have anywhere up to 15 or more needles per "head"(available colors). The term "head" refers to the "sewing head" as some of the larger industrial embroidery machines can sew the same design out onto 20 (or more) garments at once (as any one of these industrial machines can have many sewing heads).

Applications:

Hats, Caps, Bags, Clothing