Transfer printing is an industrial-scale fabric printing technology that was used for fabric printing in the late 1960s. The characteristic of transfer printing is that the printing plate graphic is not directly printed on the fabric. Instead, it is printed on the intermediate and transferred to the substrate. The intermediate can be paper or a plastic film. Compared with direct printing technology, transfer printing has the following advantages:
1 The pattern is rich in art, rich in layers, vivid in appearance, fine in design, surpassing the level of traditional printing, especially the pattern transferred by the flat printing paper is delicate, clear, and of high quality.
2 Since the transfer printing eliminates the wet processing steps in the production process, there is no waste water discharge and it meets the requirements for green production in the 21st century.
3 The process is simple, the delivery is quick and the production is highly flexible.
4 Low investment, small footprint, easy to launch.
5 Textile printing No waste, rejects of transfer printing paper have been removed.
Although transfer printing has these advantages, due to the continuous increase in the cost of fabric printing, the future market competition will become more intense. In addition, the production of transfer printing paper (film), like direct printing, is not tied to the printing plate. It is necessary to make screen printing as in the case of producing color printing fabrics. If screen printing is used to make transfer printing paper, printing is required for each color. A screen version. Network editions are not only time consuming but also costly.
The best way to reduce the cost of transfer printing and improve product quality is not to use screen plates during the printing process. With the development of transfer technology and control technology, non-printing systems have been effectively used in printing production in recent years. Among them, there are mainly two types of thermal transfer technologies suitable for digital transfer printing, namely thermal diffusion (sublimation) transfer and thermal wax transfer. This is a technology that uses a ribbon as a transfer medium to transfer a digital pattern onto a substrate. The color hot-wax transfer and dye-sublimation printers work very similarly, so many hybrid printers can be used as either hot or dye sublimation printers, depending on the media used. Both of the above printers provide color by a ribbon. The ribbon is composed of four pieces of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (usually the same size) as the page size. One is followed by one piece, and the color pattern is printed four times. One color at a time. The dye used in the dye-sublimation printer is coated with a transparent dye, while the hot wax print ribbon is coated with a thin layer of wax. When the ribbon is printed by a computer-controlled thermal print head, the ribbon can be image-transferred. The difference between the two is that the dyes are dyed and fixed in the dye-sublimation transfer printing, while in the hot wax transfer printing, since the transfer body is a pigment-containing wax, the fastness of the pattern on the surface of the transferred object is poor. Still need further research and development.
Today, transfer printing plays an important role in the textile printing market. Since the original digital copy transfer printing product is digital and graphic information, and the digital printing image acquisition method is flexible and can be used to capture images using a TV or a video camera. Through the digitizing board connected with the computer, the function of the digitizing board is to convert the analog signal of the camera into a digital signal. After the computer receives the data, it is stored in a certain file format for further processing by the user; a color scanner, a digital camera, etc. may also be used. It is more suitable for using online publishing technology to download images from the Internet for printing. Online publishing has three distinct features: product digitalization, circulation network and transaction electronicization, which will inevitably greatly influence and change our lives. Therefore, digital transfer printing adapts to the rapid changes in the current market, small batch size, short cycle of development trends, and the equipment is simple, small investment, is a kind of decorative printing technology can be used for small demand, variety change fast fabrics and clothing.
1 The pattern is rich in art, rich in layers, vivid in appearance, fine in design, surpassing the level of traditional printing, especially the pattern transferred by the flat printing paper is delicate, clear, and of high quality.
2 Since the transfer printing eliminates the wet processing steps in the production process, there is no waste water discharge and it meets the requirements for green production in the 21st century.
3 The process is simple, the delivery is quick and the production is highly flexible.
4 Low investment, small footprint, easy to launch.
5 Textile printing No waste, rejects of transfer printing paper have been removed.
Although transfer printing has these advantages, due to the continuous increase in the cost of fabric printing, the future market competition will become more intense. In addition, the production of transfer printing paper (film), like direct printing, is not tied to the printing plate. It is necessary to make screen printing as in the case of producing color printing fabrics. If screen printing is used to make transfer printing paper, printing is required for each color. A screen version. Network editions are not only time consuming but also costly.
The best way to reduce the cost of transfer printing and improve product quality is not to use screen plates during the printing process. With the development of transfer technology and control technology, non-printing systems have been effectively used in printing production in recent years. Among them, there are mainly two types of thermal transfer technologies suitable for digital transfer printing, namely thermal diffusion (sublimation) transfer and thermal wax transfer. This is a technology that uses a ribbon as a transfer medium to transfer a digital pattern onto a substrate. The color hot-wax transfer and dye-sublimation printers work very similarly, so many hybrid printers can be used as either hot or dye sublimation printers, depending on the media used. Both of the above printers provide color by a ribbon. The ribbon is composed of four pieces of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (usually the same size) as the page size. One is followed by one piece, and the color pattern is printed four times. One color at a time. The dye used in the dye-sublimation printer is coated with a transparent dye, while the hot wax print ribbon is coated with a thin layer of wax. When the ribbon is printed by a computer-controlled thermal print head, the ribbon can be image-transferred. The difference between the two is that the dyes are dyed and fixed in the dye-sublimation transfer printing, while in the hot wax transfer printing, since the transfer body is a pigment-containing wax, the fastness of the pattern on the surface of the transferred object is poor. Still need further research and development.
Today, transfer printing plays an important role in the textile printing market. Since the original digital copy transfer printing product is digital and graphic information, and the digital printing image acquisition method is flexible and can be used to capture images using a TV or a video camera. Through the digitizing board connected with the computer, the function of the digitizing board is to convert the analog signal of the camera into a digital signal. After the computer receives the data, it is stored in a certain file format for further processing by the user; a color scanner, a digital camera, etc. may also be used. It is more suitable for using online publishing technology to download images from the Internet for printing. Online publishing has three distinct features: product digitalization, circulation network and transaction electronicization, which will inevitably greatly influence and change our lives. Therefore, digital transfer printing adapts to the rapid changes in the current market, small batch size, short cycle of development trends, and the equipment is simple, small investment, is a kind of decorative printing technology can be used for small demand, variety change fast fabrics and clothing.
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