To create new business opportunities with sub paper
In recent years, many large and small commercial printers are busy with the production of live parts on various types of paper, in order to meet business needs for promotion of their products and services. But now, with advertisers gradually shift the focus of the advocacy network, the rise of digital short run printing as well as public awareness of environmental protection, paper consumption has declined significantly, it also gives commercial printing business survival has brought some difficulties .
Today, there are business-minded printing companies are looking for opportunities in non-traditional substrates printed. With the listing of the new generation of thermal transfer paper, printing companies also have a printed image on a textile complex conditions, they can be based on customer requirements, to produce a variety of soft logo, banners and compassionate, and other products. In other words, printing companies can use existing equipment, materials and finishing equipment to meet customers' production requirements, to help them grow their business
Thermal transfer paper Introduction:
High quality thermal transfer paper appeared in about the mid-1990s, and the first heat of laser products occurs after birth born inkjet products, which is the mid-1980s. In addition, people are still mid-1990s, developed the world's first dark transfer paper, and launched a hollow heat transfer paper in 2005.
Today, thermal transfer paper has been used in every corner of life. Now a lot of heat transfer paper can be better than other products with environmental and safety advantages, so printing companies also hope to use some of the following does not contain harmful substances thermal transfer paper to achieve higher environmental standards, such as:
PVC (polyvinyl chloride)
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS)
Bisphenol A (bisphenol A)
Organotin
Phthalate
Formaldehyde
Market outlook:
Thermal transfer paper, offset printing process can provide users with a faster, lower cost and higher efficiency of T-shirts, canvas bags, notebooks and other textile printing methods. Printing companies can sell a T-shirt printed with a pattern or other products to increase revenue, or to provide customers with a printed pattern can be used by the iron. In addition to the line patterns, they can also print photos and photo-quality images.
Thermal transfer paper is offset in the selection process, the most important thing is for the light and dark textiles to choose a different paper. A dark textile transfer paper designed to prevent substrates or image faded. If the user does not know what will be the use of thermal transfer paper in the color field, you can also find the best solutions through experiments. In general, all designed for dark substrates designed for thermal transfer paper should have the following characteristics:
Avoid migration offset ink
Prevent the infiltration of wet ink
With good color fidelity without cracking phenomenon, and can withstand repeated washing and drying
Can be used with hot stamping or iron
Production Tips:
Although today's thermal transfer printing paper has been very easy, but the user is best for all procedures in advance what tests to ensure get the desired results. Offset printing should consider the following points:
Prepress: must continue to adjust the image in the prepress process, in order to compensate for the tonal values may appear a small amount of gain (5-15%).
In addition, to make an accurate background removal based on image characteristics, and the total print density control in less than 280%. Remember, a lot of pre-press proofs are already coated paper (coated paper) made outlets compensation.
Ink / ink drying: higher viscosity inks to give users a more solid network, so it is best to use a low solvent content and higher solids ink. Fades extent do these inks is about 5-7 density point.
Treatment: Try Before printing thermal transfer paper and then open the package, and should pressroom temperature and relative adjustment between 68 F and 45-60%, preferably using a small number of printing.
Printed on the machine: Today's transfer paper have been a special surface treatment, in favor of a uniform ink coverage and cure. Although the majority of offset ink on this paper production results are ideal, but users on the machine before printing is best carried out some tests.
Trimming and die-cutting : a sharp knife to cut the paper in favor of a smooth , and if blunt knife , it is possible to tear the paper .
Be sure to heat transfer through the coated side of the paper for printing, if there is no clear identity , you can cut open a corner of the paper to determine which side is coated through .
Some iron-on transfers are used very well in almost all textiles and blended materials, but one nylon or polyester material will be a problem , in order to avoid mixing with the dye transfer paper fibers together, is best able to control the temperature 300? F or less.
In actual production, we can first transfer paper backing peeled off , and then the film will be printed with a pattern on the costume , and with hot stamping machine to complete the transfer of the image.
If production by hot stamping , the image may be embossed on the garment or the desired substrates, and after cooling the transfer paper is completely removed. When faced with such relatively thick canvas textiles , we may be increased platen temperature, pressure and time.
If using iron production , they must master the imprint of time . 8.5x11 inch for a transfer zone , the ideal time for 3 minutes platen , so the smaller the size of the transfer zone , the shorter the time required . A 3x3 -inch heat transfer area only about 15 seconds on it.
Consultation paper supplier
Paper supplier according to your needs, you choose the right thermal transfer paper, you can make a few suppliers to the following questions:
What we need to make adjustments in prepress link?
How to manage the originals and how to increase the value of the tone to make adjustments?
Do we need to remove the background?
What is the best viscosity of the ink?
How should the paper be processed and stored?
How to choose the paper lifting device?
How long is the drying time?
What are the issues that need attention in trimming and die-cutting process?
Summary
In other non-paper on textile substrates when printing, commercial printing plant is fully equipped with a desktop printer user and screen printing match the strength, they are not only good color control and print management, but also for users beyond imagine the detail and image quality. In addition, commercial printers also have a higher production capacity, as long as the attention to detail that the production of the above mentioned, they will certainly be able to transfer paper to win more business for themselves.