Digital Printing Services

At Ferriot, we have the ability to add vivid, high quality digital images directly to your plastic products! This technology eliminates the need to apply adhesive labels, and it even works on curved surfaces. Digital printing provides vibrant color that is durable, weatherproof and chemical resistant.

Custom digital images printed on your injected molded parts is the latest way to enhance the look and improve branding of your products.

Aside from logos and images, customization is also available when there is variable data and different markings that need to be applied to different part. Specialty markings can include individual names, barcodes, serial numbers, lot numbers and expiry codes.

To print on non-porous substrates, Ferriot uses specialized, rapid curing UV inks. Once the ink is applied, a UV light stabilizes and cures the ink, resulting in a strong polymeric layer. UV inks are found to be more chemical and scratch resistant than solvent based inks due the increase in hardness once cured.

The process is capable of creating high quality images up to 1200 dpi. With a large printer bed, Ferriot provides a maximum print area of 41.25” x 24” and the ability to print on objects up to 12” tall.

Our color management software supports Pantone color matching and allows cyan, magenta, yellow and key to print simultaneously, along with white. The flexible artwork requirements include the ability to print from these files: EPS, PDF, JPG, TIFF, as well as native Adobe AI and Illustrator files.

This process works very well with ABS and styrenes, as well as polycarbonates and Lexans. There are other materials that are more challenging, but pretreatments options are available to increase the surface tension of the plastic and improve ink adhesion.