Printing on plastic

[breamster]

Are there any budget options for a printer to be able to print on plastics?

Presumably household printers are water-based ink so I would need some sort of solvent based printer? Media is not that flexible so presumably flat bed as well? Size of the print is small, think A5 or A6.

This is just an idea and can't cost me too much otherwise I'll just have to pay someone else to do it. Budget as low as possible.

It can also be black only.

Any ideas?

[Griffith4ever]

Laser toner heat transfer. You can even use an iron.

[JoshSm]

Depends on the substrate.

Usual answer is a UV printer but the budget versions of that aren't cheap. Will print on almost anything though.

For something specialist you're better getting someone else to do it as the cost is in the equipment not an individual print unless you're doing weird/small stuff that doesn't have the format & volume to be worth them doing.

[breamster]

Thanks both. I haven't heard of Laser toner heat transfer paper so I'll take look. I think I may end up farming it out.

[dhutch]

As always, what sort of plastic, what sort of quality/durability. Black and white only?

[Griffith4ever]

breamster said:

Thanks both. I haven't heard of Laser toner heat transfer paper so I'll take look. I think I may end up farming it out.

I've used the method extensively ( to the point I created an Instructable on it) to mask and create PCBs