DigiTouch Printing: A New Era of Realistic Tile Textures

In tile design, there’s a growing demand for surfaces that go beyond flat visuals. Increasingly, designers and homeowners are seeking out porcelain tile designs that offer depth, realism, and texture you can actually feel. Enter DigiTouch, a next-generation digital printing technology. This modern tile technology is designed to perfectly sync tile surface texture with printed visuals. DigiTouch printing createsrealistic texture tile (often wood look porcelain tile) that’s visually stunning with a sense of authenticity.

What's So Special About DigiTouch?

Whether you’re an architect, designer, or homeowner, DigiTouch offers meaningful improvements that elevate both aesthetic quality and long-term performance:

• Authentic Appearance: Matching raised texture to printed pattern makes for a much more convincing replication of natural materials like wood flooring, stone, or concrete. DigiTouch is especially powerful inporcelain wood look porcelain tiles, where it captures the grain, knots, and natural texture of real wood with striking accuracy. That’s why our REED and JENGA wood look tile collection feels as good as it looks - warm, dimensional, and remarkably lifelike. It offers an authentic appearance while maintaining the benefits of porcelain floors.

• Tactile Dimension: These decorative tiles invite you to engage with both your eyes and your touch. With subtle, elevated textures, DigiTouch tiles add a whole new sensory layer to both residential and commercial interiors. Raised textures also catch the light, which adds to the organic feel of your space.

• Natural Visuals: DigiTouch complements other installation techniques such as randomized layouts, dry laying, and using tile patterns with a high number of unique faces (the design on each individual tile) to create a more realistic look. These practices ensure your wood look floortile or accent wall avoids repetition and flows more naturally across a space.

• Design Flexibility: By allowing more intricate, multi-level textures and graphic combinations, this tile printing technology gives designers greater creative freedom than traditional digital printing methods.

• Durability & Performance: All DigiTouch tiles are ceramic (or porcelain), so they’re built for strength, stain resistance, and long-term use. Whether indoors or out, these tiles deliver both authentic style and substance.

What is DigiTouch Tile Printing?

Traditional porcelain tile printing involves a single-layer or multi-layer digital image printed on a flat tile surface. Much like your office inkjet printer might work, digital printing on tile typically applies glaze (the "ink") using controlled nozzles.

While this method can mimic the look of natural materials, it often lacks depth and texture - even with high-resolution designs. DigiTouch changes the game with three high-tech digital phases designed for precision and realism:

1. Texture Creation
   A water-repellent resist agent is digitally applied to the pressed tile body, creating a graphic texture on the surface.

2. Glaze Layering
   A clay-based glaze called engobe is applied next. It interacts with the resist pattern to form subtle relief and physical texture across the tile surface.

3. Precision Color Matching
   Finally, optical cameras or barcode readers detect the structured surface. This allows the printed design to match the texture below, resulting in a perfectly aligned, deeply realistic finish.

The result is a realistic porcelain tile surface that resembles authentic natural wood, concrete, or stone (and feels like it too!)

DigiTouch is a leap forward in modern tile technology that creates realistic porcelain tiles that connect with both sight and touch. For anyone seeking a more natural-looking floor, wall, or porcelain flooring installation, this technology bridges the gap between design and craftsmanship. 

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