Packaging:
Thermal receptive materials offer versatility. Digital printing offers personalization.

Thermal foils offer consistent colors (even metallics and chrome) that make color matching easy and require no clean up. The combination gives you a competitive edge for short-run applications.

This is a "decal kit" for a vacuum cleaner. It was printed on a soft clear vinyl with metallic foil. Foils or ribbons are used instead of inks.

We are confident we have the right decorative materials for you.

Static Cling decal for the face of a new cell phone.

High-Gloss or Textured, Holographic or Sparkling Glitter, most of the materials you have seen on products are available for thermal transfer printing.

There are high and low temperature materials, reflective and phosphorescent materials, and even tamper evident materials available for thermal transfer printers.

Static cling decals such as this cell phone label can be made. Even thick printed vinyl patches with or without adhesive for seats and other "sew-in" surfaces can be printed and cut.

Some products such as the hard hat and helmet pictured here require thick pliable decal materials to protect the graphics.

Most of these decals are printed on clear material, which requires opaque white ink.

Opaque white inks are only available for thermal printing and traditional screen printing processes.

Small text and bar codes are easily printed and verified for accuracy.

Informational labels such as the one on the back of the bottle pictured here contain a lot of text and a product bar code.

The resolution and durability of your labels will help determine the type of system that meets your needs. Thermal printers have no problems printing text as small as 4 pt. and bar codes.

A benefit that the Gerber and Matan thermal printers have is that they both offer software that allows the user to import databases of information and link it to the production run.

The results are labels or decals that are consecutively numbered, or contain information unique to each label.

Personalization:
The market for personalized or variable data gets bigger every year. Imagine having to generate 1,000 data plates every Monday morning for this week's production run of a product? Or how about consecutively numbered parking stickers such as the one shown here?

Window sticker with variable data barcodes.

What if the parking stickers have to be barcoded so they can be read automatically by the gate attendant?

One more thing... those parking stickers have to go on the inside of the window, so they have to be printed in reverse (wrong reading). These characteristics become selling points, not obstacles when you own a digital thermal transfer system such as the Gerber or Matan.

Bar codes are just another form of a font, and are available in most popular forms. We carry the barcode software and can teach you how to use it.

Sample rolls of labels and striping.

Labels may be packaged in a "one kit per unit" form such as the roll pictured at the top of the page for a vacuum cleaner.

Or your labels may be in sheet form or roll form to be loaded on an automatic label dispenser on a production line.