We make custom dry transfers in as little as 24 hours

Lawton Audio — Custom Dry Transfer for Wood
Lawton Audio — Custom Dry Transfer for Wood
Boss Audio System Catalog Comp - 2016
Boss Audio System Catalog Comp

Who we are at Image Transfers

At Image Transfers, Inc., we're proud to be the largest custom dry transfer printing service online. We are based in New York, serving customers in the United States and internationally, and have a reputation for providing the highest‐quality custom transfer decals. Our rub‐on transfers become more popular each year because they are an ideal solution for many applications. Send us your file, and we will send you back a perfect dry transfer — it's as easy as that. Using our custom decals will allow you to create a high‐quality final product.

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Get the best value on custom decals from Image Transfers. Our product quality is guaranteed, and our pricing is competitive. Submit your digital files and receive finished transfers in as little as 24 to 48 hours. Order easily by dragging and dropping art, selecting a color, choosing the shipping, and getting a receipt.

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Custom Logo Transfer on Product Prototype
All Pantone® Colors
Dry foil transfer on wine bottle labels for Francis Ford Coppola winery
Metallic Colors
A Madtown Guitar headstock featuring a dry rub transfer
Foil Colors

What are Dry Transfer Decals?

A custom dry transfer/rub‐on transfer is a semi‐permanent decal that can be applied quickly and effortlessly to nearly all smooth, dry indoor surfaces. We create them with a special ink, backed with adhesive and delivered on a transfer slick used to rub them off in a single, quick step. The image can be "transferred" onto wood, metal, glass, plastic, walls, or paper. You may see people use several names for our product, and they all refer to the same great solution.

  • Custom dry transfers
  • Custom rub‐down transfers
  • Rub‐on transfer decals
Glenstone Museum
A closeup photo of the museum caption rubbed on the wall. The detail shows the quality of our custom wall transfers.
De Young Museum

Museum and Gallery Labels are Our Specialties

Rub‐down custom lettering looks perfect as museum and gallery labels to caption artwork. They produce superior wall labels both in appearance and ease of application. The art world's preferred white‐cube environment places every detail in the spotlight, requiring lettering that works perfectly every time and has a durable, precise look.

Transfer decals as museum wall labels also gives curators peace of mind, knowing they control the content and appearance — we create exhibit captions directly from client‐supplied digital files. Applying lettering on walls is convenient because each transfer sheet contains a text block. It's a vast improvement from earlier methods that required letters to be applied individually. Some of our museum and gallery clients have successfully (and beautifully) applied extensive introductory text to gallery entrance walls.

It helps explain why art gallery and museum wall labels are among the fastest‐growing uses for this technology —and why reactions and reviews have been so favorable for those projects already completed.

First, select the place for your rubdown transfer on your model or prototype. Rubdown transfers can be applied on wood, glass, plastic or any smooth surface. Use the supplied burnishing tool to rub down the dry transfer, make sure to apply pressure evenly to insure that the image transfers onto the model smoothly. Complete the process by removing the plastic film to reveal your custom rub on dry transfer on your product prototype or model replica boat, train or plane.

Applying Custom Dry Transfers is Quick and Easy

Want to learn how to apply custom dry transfers? It's easy. Simply position and rub down your transfer with a supplied burnisher. For more information, please click the button below.

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Harley Davidson — Screaming Eagle
Insco — Tachometer with Custom Rub On Numbers
Research Labs — Bactrac

Industrial Designers First Made Us Famous

Custom pressure transfers are the gold standard for adding lettering, logos, and other graphic elements to product prototypes, package designs, and comps.They work equally well on items that are 3Dprinted or molded and are perfect for use as labels on jars, cans, bottles, and tubes. You can count on an easy‐to‐apply decal with an outstanding finished result. The process is straightforward to complete.

Recent clients have also included vintners who need high‐quality labels to customize their sample wine bottles. Even in the automotive restoration and boutique aircraft industries, dry transfer decals can be used to sample a wide range of objects, such as the faces of analog gauges and speedometers.

Custom guitar makers add rub‐downs to give their instruments a professional appearance. Dry transfer technology means the decal is fully customizable and will appear as if printed directly on nearly any plastic, glass, wood, or metal object. Since the adhesive is used only on the image area, it will look like your artwork is printed on the surface you apply it to with no adhesive residue after application.

Chicco comps for Eurostyle

Why Use Transfer Decals?

As many in the graphic design and model‐making business know, prototypes and models can be enhanced and better represent the final product by applying a custom rub‐down transfer that you design and we produce.

  • Painted‐on appearance — for lettering and logos on any surface
  • Fast turnarounds — as little as 24 hours
  • Affordable pricing — many clients order alternate versions

Industrial designers, creative directors, artists, graphic designers, and model makers prefer custom dry transfers because of their high‐quality appearance, affordability, and flexibility. Your final project will look professional and appear on par with the final manufactured products. The freedom to match any Pantone® color is helpful, and you can order multi‐color transfers.

Airplane dashboard restoration
Aston Martin dashboard restoration
Airplane dashboard restoration

At Image Transfers, we are devoted to the highest quality in our processes and make your complete satisfaction our number one goal. We also guarantee our work and adhere to the highest production standards. Working with us ensures your project will turn out well and have professional‐looking results.

  • More than 30 years of experience
  • Decals of exceptional quality and durability
  • Excellent alternative to Letraset®, Chartpak®, Chromatech®
  • Ideal for corporate and individual clients
  • Industry–leading customer service, including free advice

At Image Transfers, we understand the importance of successful presentations, and that's why we offer top‐quality custom dry transfers (rub‐downs). Our products will enhance the appearance of your project, giving it a finished, tangible, professional look and feel.

Prada — glass display in Soho store
Louis Vuitton - Volez, Voguez, Voyagez exhibit, New York, NY. Custom dry transfer applied to a medium-brown wooden panel, reading, "LE FIGARO ILLUSTRÉ ADVERTISEMENT LA MALLE VUITTON DESCEND DANS LES MEILLEURS HÔTELS (Vuitton Trunk Stays in the Best Hotels) - May 1935 Printed ink on paper - Louis Vuitton Archives". The second one reads, "HOTEL LABELS FROM GASTON-LOUIS VUITTON'S PRIVATE COLLECTION - 20th century Printing on gummed paper - Louis Vuitton Archives".
Louis Vuitton exhibit — dry transfer on wood

Our custom color transfers are of exceptional quality and durability. We can create them in opaque, transparent, foil, and metallic colors. Smaller elements can be produced for lower costs by arranging multiple elements on each sheet. We can also supply traditional rub‐on lettering in a wide range of colors to transfer to the wall surface, or object of your choice.

Order your dry transfer decals today from our experienced team. Please click here to learn more about the pricing and ordering of custom rub‐on transfers.

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