With the pursuit of beauty, people have higher requirements for the function of umbrellas. Umbrellas should not only meet the basic functions like wind and rain protection and UV protection, but also meet the requirements of beauty, convenience and fashion, especially some advertising umbrellas.
In order to play a better advertising effect, businesses will design very beautiful patterns to attract others’ attention, which mean it needs higher requirements on umbrella print ways.
In recent years, due to the development of printing technology and umbrella print requirements, more and more printing technology applied to the umbrella. According to the characteristics of different processes, can be divided into silk printing, screen printing, digital printing and heat transfer printing.
The following will introduce the characteristics of various umbrella printing technology and their respective advantages and disadvantages, so that you can choose the right print way when making order.
Silk Print
Silk printing was one of the first processes used in umbrella printing, and is still the dominant process in the market due to its low cost and simplicity.
This print process is relatively simple. Print mould will be made according to the shape of the pattern, then the ink will pass through the small spaces in screen to form patterns on umbrella fabric. This print is suitable for simple logo.
Because it can only print one color at a time, a variety of colors to be overlapped by multiple printing. So the printed pattern color can not be too much, generally one or two colors. At the same time the screen printing ink is relatively thick, it will be easy to break when using, so silk printing is not suitable for large-area printing.
Silk Print Features:
1. Not limited by the size or shape of the substrate.
General printing only can print on the flat surface. But screen printing can not only be printed on a flat surface but also be printed on special shapes of molded objects such as spherical surfaces.
2. Applicable to various types of inks
3. Strong spin resistance
The luster of the printed material can be kept unchanged. (Temperature and sunlight have no effect). This makes it possible to print some self-adhesive without additional lamination and other processes.
4. Flexible and diverse printing methods
5. Can be done by hand, can also be machine.
Screen Printing
If silk printing is suitable for single color and simple pattern color printing, then screen printing is suitable for color large area printing.
Screen printing can print all color patterns through four color overlay. The principle of screen printing is the same as the silk print, also printing a color at a time. But it is not through the mesh permeable ink way, it through the network storage ink and then printed on the paper, screen printing and screen printing printing printing process is very different.
There are a lot of difference between these 2 prints way. Firstly, screen print will print on the paper then transferred to the fabric, rather than directly printed on the fabric like silk print. However, because of the use of biochemical ink, after the transfer is the ink penetration into the fabric, so it will not affect the feeling of the fabric, so it can be applied to a large area of printing.
But the disadvantage of screen printing is that it can not be positioned, and can only print some irregular patterns.
Below prints are made of screen print way.
Digital printing
Digital printing fabric technology is one of the high-tech products. It appeared in the mid-1990s and brought a new concept to the textile print.
Digital printing fabric is the pattern pattern through the digital form of input to the computer, through the computer printing color separation tracing system (cad) editing processing, and then by the computer control micro piezoelectric ink jet nozzle special dye directly into the textile, forming the required pattern.
Digital printing features:
- 1. Digital printing is on-demand inkjet, reducing the waste of chemicals and wastewater discharge. Some also called this print way as GREEN PRODUCTION PTINT due to Inkjet low noise, low energy consumption, quiet and clean.
- 2. Break the defects on the traditional printing process, simplify the tedious process, it shortens the traditional printing process, improves the order cycle, and reduces the cost of plate making and proofreading.
- 3. Wide color gamut, bright and rich color variety, up to more than 10 million kinds, while the traditional printing only 10 kinds.
- 4. High precision, clear and delicate images. At present, the resolution of digital printing up to 1440dpi, while the traditional printing process resolution of only 255dpi.
- 5. Support small batch production, not limited by the production batch, it can achieve personalized production needs.
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