Cassette Tape On-Body Printing
Our new UV LED printing allows some exciting new cassette print options
We can now offer a new type of printing on cassettes that allows very sharp graphics in superb quality and also expands print opportunities by allowing full colour on-body printing either with or without white base layers and with optional spot gloss coatings to highlight certain elements. We can also now print over 3D surfaces, so where a pad or silk screen print can only go onto a flat surface, the UV LED prints can go all over the cassette shell, as show to the right.
Benefits of our cassette on-body printing include:
- Superb high resolution print quality
- Full colour printing options, either with or without white base layers
- The option of spot gloss highlights
- Ultra durable print that is almost impossible to remove
- Printing over the full surface of the cassette shell is available
- Competitive pricing for on-body printing over standard full colour stickers
- Quick turnaround times (the same as for sticker printing)
Some examples of our work:
Pricing for on-body cassette printing in place of printed labels:
Just add the additional on-body print pricing to the cost of the cassettes in the relevant packaging (from the cassettes menu tab above). When printing full colour artwork, the ideal shell colour is white to provide a natural colour base for the ink, however we will add a white base layer under your artwork if you are printing on a tape shell colour other than white. If no white base layer is added then the colour artwork will be coloured by the tape shell underneath and with dark tape shell colours may be almost completely lost without a white base layer first. The white base layer doesn’t have to be covering the standard or full coverage print areas shown below, it can be a custom shape, so could just be a white base layer underneath a colour title for example if you just wish the title to be in colour and for the tape shell to be visible in the rest of the print area. If you do not want us to apply a white base layer under colours then please let us know.
Black or white on-body cassette tape printing
- White or black direct to tape print using a high resolution UV LED process directly onto the tape. Printing is on both sides of the tape.
- Add a spot UV gloss varnish for £0.35+VAT printed both sides per tape
- For single sided printing, print costs are halved
- White or black direct to tape print using a high resolution UV LED process directly onto the tape. Printing is on both sides of the tape.
- Add a spot UV gloss varnish for £0.34+VAT printed both sides per tape
- For single sided printing, print costs are halved
- White or black direct to tape print using a high resolution UV LED process directly onto the tape. Printing is on both sides of the tape.
- Add a spot UV gloss varnish for £0.33+VAT printed both sides per tape
- For single sided printing, print costs are halved
- White or black direct to tape print using a high resolution UV LED process directly onto the tape. Printing is on both sides of the tape.
- Add a spot UV gloss varnish for £0.42+VAT printed both sides per tape
- For single sided printing, costs are halved
- White or black direct to tape print using a high resolution UV LED process directly onto the tape. Printing is on both sides of the tape.
- Add a spot UV gloss varnish for £0.40+VAT printed both sides per tape
- For single sided printing, print costs are halved
- White or black direct to tape print using a high resolution UV LED process directly onto the tape. Printing is on both sides of the tape.
- Add a spot UV gloss varnish for £0.38+VAT printed both sides per tape
- For single sided printing, print costs are halved
Full colour on-body cassette tape printing
- Full colour direct to tape print using a high resolution UV LED process directly onto the tape, with a white base applied, if required. Printing is on both sides of the tape.
- Add a spot UV gloss varnish for £0.35+VAT printed both sides per tape
- For single sided printing, print costs are halved
- Full colour direct to tape print using a high resolution UV LED process directly onto the tape, with a white base applied, if required. Printing is on both sides of the tape.
- Add a spot UV gloss varnish for £0.34+VAT printed both sides per tape
- For single sided printing, print costs are halved
- Full colour direct to tape print using a high resolution UV LED process directly onto the tape, with a white base applied, if required. Printing is on both sides of the tape.
- Add a spot UV gloss varnish for £0.33+VAT printed both sides per tape
- For single sided printing, print costs are halved
- Full colour direct to tape print using a high resolution UV LED process directly onto the tape, with a white base applied, if required. Printing is on both sides of the tape.
- Add a spot UV gloss varnish for £0.42+VAT printed both sides per tape
- For single sided printing, costs are halved
- Full colour direct to tape print using a high resolution UV LED process directly onto the tape, with a white base applied, if required. Printing is on both sides of the tape.
- Add a spot UV gloss varnish for £0.40+VAT printed both sides per tape
- For single sided printing, print costs are halved
- Full colour direct to tape print using a high resolution UV LED process directly onto the tape, with a white base applied, if required. Printing is on both sides of the tape.
- Add a spot UV gloss varnish for £0.38+VAT printed both sides per tape
- For single sided printing, print costs are halved
Download artwork templates (also suitable for editing in Photoshop)
The yellow areas show the artwork area to be printed. Please select between standard printing or full coverage printing when downloading a template (the prices vary depending on coverage, please pricing table above). Generally if printing on anything other than white tapes then you should add a white base layer beneath colours so that the colours come out accurately and are not affected by the shade of the tape shell behind. If you would only like a partial white layer or would only like your artwork to be printed in white then please supply a separate copy of the artwork for the white layer only (with white print in the file name so that we can easily identify it as being a white print), with the white area to be printed using a solid black colour (essentially white colours are never printed in artwork and for us to print a white base layer we load up a specific file with the black in the file representing the white layer to print). The same is true if you would like a spot gloss layer applied, please supply another copy of the file with gloss print in the file name with the black area showing where the gloss should be printed. This may mean that if some areas are just printed white, some areas are full colour and some bits have a spot gloss then you would need to supply three different artwork files per side, one for the white, one for the colour and black areas and one for the gloss areas.
- Download the Photoshop PDF artwork template for a standard traditional print area
Note: Please hide the yellow guide layer before sending your finished artwork to us
- Download the Photoshop PDF artwork template for a full coverage print area
Note: Please hide the yellow guide layer before sending your finished artwork to us
Video
View a (very!) brief clip of the UV LED printer in action, printing white onto clear tapes:
