Hydrographics, also known as immersion printing or water transfer printing, is a method of applying printed designs to three-dimensional objects. With multiple dippings, hydrographic printing can achieve full 360° coverage of the part surface, including small crevices. The new decoration option is one of the ways that SR Packaging cements its position as a leader in the region for decoration option variety.

For quite some time now, SR Packaging has enjoyed a prominent position in the Asian region as one of the primary places to visit when in need of excellently decorated packaging elements. "This printing method is ideal for imitating marble or growth-ring like images. Making clients’ products stand out from the crowd is our primary goal", says UOUO, SRP’s head designer. The company offers on of the largest gamut of options available today, including such processes as:

• Flexo-printing: A new printing technology that allows companies to print poster-quality images directly onto the full surface of tubes and other flexible packaging items
   
• Satin finishing: A ground breaking satin finish on a PE tube with a paper-like feel, creating a "paper" tube that doesn’t get wet even when splashed on
   
• Labelling: ideal for multiple color decoration on flat surfaces or cylindrical packaging
   
• Silk-screen printing: used primarily for decorative text or patterns on surfaces, providing a thick, bold and glossy finish
   
• Hot-stamping: stamping foil onto a surface, enhances a luxurious brand image further, available in all metallic colours
   
• Metallizing: mainly used on caps and bottles, this technique gives a product a shiny, faux-metal finish, with the ability to add other decoration options over the end result, making products stand out of the crowd
   
• Colour spray coatings: colour ranges include glitter coatings to metallic coatings, giving the product an artistic finish
   
• Soft touch spray coating: plastics now look more like glass as this technique not only strives to give the product a matt or frosted appearance with a softer feel to the touch
   
• Metal sheening: allows PET bottles, jars and caps to evince the characteristics of the glowing sheen produced by vacuum metallization, but at a price that’s much lower than one would think, and readily accessible
   
• Shrink-wrapping: encloses a piece of packaging in a pre-printed plastic sheet that's fitted perfectly to the surface, a great solution for decorating the full area of a product, no matter the shape