What are some common fabric printing processes for logos?
Release time:2024-01-09
Modern logo concepts are more refined and mature, and the promotion and application of logos have established a complete system. With the advent of the digital age and the rapid development of online culture, traditional methods of information dissemination and reading have faced unprecedented challenges. The standards of efficiency and time concepts have also been redefined. In this context, logo styles are also developing towards personalization and diversification. For logo creators and designers, they need to express dozens of times more information than before through a simple logo symbol. Classic logos and designs with avant-garde and exploratory tendencies coexist, and the tolerance for design has expanded. Next, let's learn about the more common fabric printing methods for logos.
1. Screen Printing: Screen printing is one of the oldest printing techniques. To reproduce your design or image on any material, ink is transferred by pressing it through a mesh stretched in a frame. Thus, a frame is used, within which a stencil and a screen are placed for each color to be reproduced. A squeegee is run across the frame, allowing the color to reproduce the stencil. Your image is transferred to the fabric, and the color transitions of the blank areas are suppressed by a special varnish.
2. Digital Printing: Digital printing works more or less similarly to a simple home printer and reproduces the design through laser jetting. The image is created by mixing cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK) inks. Using a high-definition plotter to print the colors directly onto the surface yields particularly bright and captivating colors.
3. Heat Transfer: This method requires an intermediate medium; that is, the image and text are first printed onto a heat transfer film or paper, and then the pattern is transferred to the non-woven fabric by heating through a transfer device. The commonly used medium in textile printing is heat transfer film. Its advantages are: exquisite printing, rich layers, comparable to photos. Suitable for small-area color image printing. Disadvantages include high cost and high printing cost.
4. Hot Stamping: The formal name is hot-press transfer printing, abbreviated as hot transfer printing, commonly known as hot stamping or gold/silver stamping. There is also cold transfer printing.
5. UV: This refers to ultraviolet light; UV is the abbreviation, and "UV clear varnish" is the full name; the ink dries and cures only when exposed to ultraviolet light. UV is usually a screen printing process, but now there is also offset UV printing.
6. Embossing, Debossing: Formally known as embossing, this is a process that uses pressure to create local changes in the printed object to form a pattern. It involves metal plates etched to create embossing and debossing plates, which are pressed together. There are two types: inexpensive ordinary etched plates and expensive laser-engraved plates. 7. Lamination: A transparent plastic film is pressed onto the printed paper; there are crystal films, gloss films, and matte films. The names vary in different places, and it is not environmentally friendly.
7. Gravure Printing: This process involves two steps: first, traditional gravure printing technology is used to print the image and text onto a film, and then a laminating process is used to composite the film with the pattern onto the non-woven fabric. In addition, the product has excellent waterproof performance, and the durability of the finished product is also better than other non-woven bags produced by other processes. Films are available in glossy and matte; matte has a frosted effect! The disadvantage is that it conflicts with environmental concepts, as the film is difficult to degrade.
8. Watermark Printing: It is named because it uses water-based elastic paste as the printing medium, which is common in textile printing; it is also called printing. When printing, mix the color paste and water-based elastic glue. When washing the printing plate, no chemical solvents are needed, and it can be rinsed directly with water. Its characteristics are good coloring power, strong covering power and firmness, and washable. It is basically odorless.