🖌️ Printing techniques for your personalized items
At Your Brand Gift , we use different marking techniques to personalize your promotional gifts, each adapted to specific needs and media.
1. Screen printing
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Stencil printing, suitable for 4 to 5 colours and more.
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✅ Advantages: affordable, quality results
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⚠️ Limitations: specialized equipment, limited color palette
2. Pad printing
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Transfer of the image via a silicone pad directly onto the product.
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✅ Advantages: quick and economical, suitable for small spaces
3. Engraving
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An incision on the surface to create a relief or a hollow.
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✅ Advantages: very precise and elegant, durable
4. Sublimation
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High-quality photo or image transfer using specific ink.
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✅ Advantages: durable, colorful and crisp finish
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⚠️ Limitations: Pantone colors are not guaranteed to be 100% accurate
5. Digital Transfer
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Printing of the logo/photo on heat-sealable paper, then pressing onto the object.
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✅ Advantages: faithful reproduction of images and photos
6. Digital printing
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Direct printing from a digital file onto various media.
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✅ Advantages: fast, no printing plate required
7. Hot stamping
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Heat and pressure are applied to create a raised pattern.
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✅ Advantages: Gold, silver or colored finish, luxurious appearance
8. Doming (3D label)
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Printed sticker covered with polyurethane resin forming a dome.
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✅ Advantages: glossy, voluminous, magnifying effect, durable and tactile
9. Embossing
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Creating relief shapes on paper or deformable material.
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✅ Advantages: handcrafted and elegant effect
10. Dent Removal
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A technique similar to embossing, but creates a recessed relief.
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✅ Advantages: subtle and refined volume
11. Embroidery
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High-end and durable textile finish, ideal for logos or small designs.
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✅ Advantages: Wash-resistant, professional finish
💡 Your Brand Gift Tip: The choice of technique depends on the material , the type of design , the quantity , and the desired effect . We help you select the ideal solution for each project.
| Technical | Support | Benefits | Limitations / Specificities |
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| Screen printing | Plastic, textiles, paper | Affordable, quality results | Limited in colors, requires specialized equipment |
| Pad printing | Plastic, metal, glass | Fast, economical, small area | Difficult complex patterns |
| Engraving | Metal, wood, glass, plastic | Highly precise, elegant, durable | Higher cost, limited to fine details |
| Sublimation | Synthetic textiles, mugs, white objects | Durable, vibrant colors | Pantone colors not guaranteed, requires specific inks |
| Digital transfer | Plastic, textile, metal | Faithful reproduction of images and photos | Less durable than sublimation for some materials |
| Digital printing | Paper, cardboard, plastic | Fast, no plates | Higher cost for large production runs |
| Hot stamping | Leather, plastic, paper | Relief effect, gold/silver/colored, luxurious | Limited to flat and flexible surfaces |
| Doming (3D label) | Stickers, flat objects | Glossy, magnifying effect, durable and tactile | Drying time required, slightly higher cost |
| Embossing | Paper, cardboard | Handcrafted relief, elegant | Not suitable for fine details |
| Dent removal | Paper, cardboard | subtle recessed relief | Same limitations as embossing, requires an engraved tool |
| Embroidery | Textile | High-end, durable, wash-resistant | Patterns that are too large or very detailed are difficult |
Your satisfaction is our priority: we guarantee quality products at the best price, tailored to all your needs.
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