With various challenging printing applications occurring, traditional printers could no longer satisfy different customers’ needs such as rapid processing, abrasion and even printing on hard surfaces. As a result, an innovative technology, UV printing – was invented to fill the gaps of traditional printing. Although the UV printer was developed to meet customers’ unsatisfied demands, it still has its shortcomings. For example, if the surface of an object is a bevel face with a relatively obvious slope, it will be hard for UV printers to print what you designed accurately.

To solve the problems left by UV printers, a more innovative and cleverer idea was applied to DTF printers. Since UV printers cannot print on an inclined plane, DTF printers prints on the PET film first instead of printing directly on the surface of an object. After finishing the powdering and heat-press process, your design will be transferred to the object even if its surface is irregular or an inclined plane. But for now, DTF printers are mainly applied to textile/leather printing.

However, due to the differences in ink and lack of UV printing technology, the color vibrancy of patterns printed by DTF printers is slightly lower. And, although DTF printers are professional in printing on substrates such as textile and leather, the printing effect on other substrates is not as satisfactory as UV printers. Those who pursue ultimate printing technology combined the advantages of UV printers and DTF printers and created the Film Transfer. This type of printing service can print not only on flat surfaces but also on curved and difficult shapes that not a normal UV printers are unable to print, Digital Film Transfer also print out high-quality patterns with tenderness and accuracy.