Elevating Customization with Extended Throw Printing

As industries continue to innovate and demand more advanced solutions for custom printing, high-throw flatbed printers are becoming a critical tool for decorating a variety of challenging surfaces. Whether it’s sports equipment, unique promotional products, or consumer goods, high throw printing technology opens new doors for customization. 

High Throw: A Game-Changer for Sports Gear and Promotional Products 

What is Extended Throw Printing? 

Extended throw printing, also referred to as high throw printing, refers to a specialized form of digital printing that utilizes a longer ink throw distance between the printhead and the substrate. This technology is designed to print on products with varied or complex surfaces—anything from slanted, tiered, or uneven objects to products with significant height differences. Unlike traditional flatbed printers, which struggle with items that have uneven surfaces, high-throw printers can easily handle these challenges, ensuring superior and accurate decoration. 

Key Benefits of High Throw Printing: 

• Versatility: Print on items with varying heights and shapes that are otherwise difficult to decorate with traditional flatbed or cylindrical inkjet printers 

• Speed: High-throw digital printers are faster than competitive methods, allowing for more efficient production 

• Quality: Get precise, high-resolution prints that stand out 

High Throw Printing in Sports Gear Customization 

One area where high throw printers are making waves is in sports gear customization. Take pickleball paddles, for instance. These paddles often feature handles that are positioned higher than their faces, creating a height variation that can make traditional printing techniques less effective. Thanks to high-throw printing technology, customizing pickleball paddles with logos, graphics, or player names is now faster, more precise, and more efficient. 

Custom Promotional Products: The Perfect Solution for Marketing 

As sports continue to grow in popularity, particularly in the realm of fitness and recreational activities, high-throw printers provide an excellent opportunity for businesses to create promotional items. Imagine branded pickleball paddles given away at a local sports event or as part of a fitness brand’s marketing campaign. High-throw printing enables companies to decorate a variety of sports equipment—with intricate designs and personalized logos, all with high speed and accuracy. 

Beyond sports, any industry that relies on promotional products—like real estate agencies, hotels, or corporate gifting—can benefit from this printing technology. High-throw printers help businesses decorate uniquely shaped items, such as water bottles, keychains, and even custom gear for trade shows, all while maintaining top-notch print quality. 

Extended throw cylindrical inkjet printers can easily print on otherwise tricky necks of bottles. Standard cylindrical inkjet printers can decorate straight walled or slightly tapered drinkware, but with high throw, highly angled necks and curved bottles can be accommodated much better resulting in high quality resolution on those areas.  

Why Extended Throw Printing Matters 

The primary advantage of high-throw printing is its ability to accommodate uneven or irregular surfaces. Whether you’re decorating slanted objects, tiered surfaces, or oddly shaped promotional items, high-throw printing ensures that the ink is applied evenly, creating crisp, high-quality designs that stand the test of time. 

For businesses, this means higher-quality custom products, reduced production time, and the ability to create unique items that stand out in a crowded market. The technology can handle more intricate and complex product customization, which opens up opportunities for new marketing and promotional strategies.

Inkcups Extended Throw Solution

The X5-T High Throw combines the proven performance of the X5-T UV flatbed printer with the enhanced reach of a long-drop system, creating a versatile, all-in-one solution for printing on curved, recessed, and irregular substrates. With an extended jetting distance of 15 mm, the X5-T High Throw ensures precise, high-quality printing on up to 25% of a curved surface, delivering full CMYKWW or CMYKWV in superior resolution.

• 1,100 x 610 mm print area / 500 mm extended part height
• 15 mm extended throw distance
• 1200dpi resolution

Ideal applications for the X5-T High Throw include a wide range of industrial and promotional products such as, sporting goods, handled drinkware, stress balls, and more.

Additional Resources

• How to Print on Handled Drinkware
• Digitally Decorating Pickleball Rackets with High Throw Flatbed Printers