The transfer products of API Transfer Technologies’ Digital Finishing series are suitable for processing on all common Digital printing machines. Especially MGI Digital Finishing Solution with JETvarnish 3D Digital Spot UV Coater and SCODIX Ultra and SCODIX E106. The DF series gives the print a 3D effect and saves the cost of the printing form.



With these special transfer products, a special, usually transparent relief lacquer is applied to the inline or offline pre-printed print sheet in Digital presses, and the surface of this pre-cured lacquer is mechanically bonded to the transfer product. The adhesion force of the relief lacquer causes the metallised surface of the transfer product - specially optimised for this process - to detach partially with high precision and remain on the relief lacquer. The relief lacquer is then cured by UV light, permanently bonding it to the metallised transfer product. This process enables fascinating optical effects, and thanks to the relief varnish, tactile metallised 3D effects. By employing multiple finishes with differently coloured transfer products, even very complex, multi-coloured metallic finishes can be achieved in very small runs.



Since the finishing technologies in Digital printing still vary widely depending on the press manufacturer, coating supplier, and that this technology is still in its infancy, we recommend prior to each job conducting a test series on the original substrate and print image, this can then be used to optimise the production parameters. In particular, creasing, folding, die-cutting and trimming lines should be designed without varnish and thus without finishing due to the technology-related high cracking tendency of the relief varnishes used, in order to avoid damage in the final converting processes.