If you have ever come across Letraset® lettering you will have met with a dry transfer. However, our high-quality dry transfer service or decals can be customised for you and can be applied for different types of creative use.
How the process works
Made-to-order transfers can produce professional-looking products. The technique is done by hand in our factory using a specialised printing process. Film negatives are produced from the artwork producing a negative for each colour. These sheets are coated with chemicals and solutions. Each colour is built up and an adhesive is applied. Once they are produced rub them on the desired surface and peel the sheet away to apply them. Leaving the surface looking like it was printed right onto the object directly. Leaving no glue or residue and an outstanding result.
Finishes available
Matt and Gloss Finishes:
We can produce a bespoke colour to match a swatch or a Pantone® spot colour, including fluorescent, metallic, and pastel colours. It is also possible to reproduce the effect of foil blocking.
Foil Finishes:
We can match foil colours to Kurz and API foils or any swatch you might have. We also have a selection of off-the-shelf foil colours that can replicate a foil-blocking finish.
Pricing Guide
Matt/Satin or Gloss Finish:
| One Colour | ||
| Sheet Cost | Film Negative Cost | |
| A5 | £43.00 | £14.00 |
| A4 | £49.00 | £17.00 |
| A3 | £55.00 | £22.00 |
| Two Colour | ||
| Sheet Cost | Film Negative Cost | |
| A5 | £104.00 | £28.00 |
| A4 | £116.00 | £34.00 |
| A3 | £128.00 | £44.00 |
| Three Colour | ||
| Sheet Cost | Film Negative Cost | |
| A5 | £171.00 | £42.00 |
| A4 | £183.00 | £51.00 |
| A3 | £201.00 | £66.00 |
Foil Finish:
We can only put one foil colour on a sheet.
| Sheet Cost | Film Negative Cost | |
| A5 | £48.00 | £14.00 |
| A4 | £58.00 | £17.00 |
| A3 | £68.00 | £22.00 |
All prices are excluding VAT
Delivery Prices
A standard next-day delivery cost is £8.50. This is to the mainland UK. Address in the Highlands may take an extra day on the courier. All deliveries are on an overnight courier as standard.
Bespoke mock-ups
Our experienced team can produce artwork to suit your requirements and has produced items for various high-end mock-ups for design agencies, military badges, and blockbuster films amongst other projects.
These dry transfers, or rubdowns as they are also known, can be applied to most smooth surfaces as a one-off idea or thousands of transfers and create perfect and precise results.
“Fantastic Service, High-Quality products, very fast turnaround. We use BEL Signs for all our transfers on all our high-end audio products at English Acoustics.”
P.Farrow, Chief Technology Officer at English Acoustics
Can be used for:
- Exhibition Displays
- Gallery Titles
- Museum Labels
- Packaging
- Mock-ups or bespoke product prototypes
- Advertising
- Motifs, service marks, and logos for plane and railway models
- Architectural models
- Visual art installations
Can be applied to:
- Wooden surfaces
- Plastic
- Painted Walls
- Glass
- Ceramics
- Metal
Ideal for industries:
- Creative agencies looking for unique originals
- Packaging samples
- Prop department for Film or TV
- Production models
- Professional Model Makers
- Industrial Design
- Testers for advertising
- Luxury retailers
- Automotive and Aircraft
Contact us to discuss your next project:
Call 01403 255442.
Email: info@belsigns.com
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Supplying artwork
Our design department is an expert at creating artwork, especially for dry transfer. However, you can create artwork and send it directly to us ideally using a vector-based program such as Adobe Illustrator. There are limits to sizing, with regard to text and line thicknesses and we can advise you upon seeing the artwork. We tend to create artwork on sizes of A5, A4, or A3 as standard.
Find out more
Our helpful dedicated website www.drytransfers.co.uk has some FAQs to answer popular queries and questions.