At the 2015 Trophex exhibition held at the NEC Birmingham, TheMagicTouch won the Best Innovation award for the second successive year.
This year’s successful entry introduced the full colour image transfer process for the decoration of glass bottles and jars.
Using the Oki 711 LED digital printer and CPM transfer paper, the company has developed a quick and simple method to produce full colour images onto various shaped bottles or jars regardless of the glass colour.
Having witnessed in 2014 the incredible success of personalised labels on selected drinks brands including Famous Grouse, various Champagne brands together with the global success of the personalised Coca-Cola bottles, there is now the opportunity to print and personalise directly to the surface a vast range of glass bottle products for both limited edition, personalised gifts, promotional and recognition purposes.
The CPM toner-based transfers are be applied using a traditional mug press in less than two minutes, costing as little as 15p per full colour transfer.
Jim Nicol, managing director, commented, ‘We introduced the white toner technology over a year ago and continue to find new and innovative applications using the same technology and heat press equipment. The ability to print to the quality we are achieving on the bottles is truly astounding and is great to be recognised by the visitors to the show and their online voting audience.’
The process involves glass products with no special coating enabling the user to source empty bottles or jars from a multiple of options including online wholesalers and retailers such as Wilkinson, Aldi and Ikea.
