Color thermal transfer

Color thermal transfer

1. Color thermal transfer

With the continuous improvement of people's living standards and aesthetic views, color printing has long replaced monotonous black and white printing.

Color thermal transfer printing, which has been popular for less than 20 years, is deeply loved by manufacturers for its many excellent characteristics such as realistic patterns, rich layers, bright colors, accurate color registration, small color difference, high gloss, and good reproducibility.

2. Color thermal transfer film printing

Color thermal transfer film picture

So, how does color thermal transfer achieve gorgeous and complex color thermal transfer film printing?

1. Color thermal transfer plate making

The needs of modern design are diverse and varied. Only restoring the colors of some image originals cannot meet the required requirements. Therefore, color printing uses color plate technology to change or convert the order and quantity of color plates to achieve special color design requirements.

Color thermal transfer uses the production of thermal transfer electric engraving plates to achieve the special effects of color thermal transfer film printing with realistic patterns and rich colors.

Color thermal transfer plate making, typesetting technicians determine how many electric engraving plates are needed for the color thermal transfer film pattern based on the AI, CDR, and PS layered artwork provided by the customer, and how many electric engraving plates can fully reproduce the established pattern effect.

2. Four-color marking of color thermal transfer

The printing of color thermal transfer film uses red, yellow, blue, and black to produce ever-changing colors. It can use color separation plate making to print various colors.

The color of the text or graphics desired in the color thermal transfer artwork design can be checked by the "PANTON" Pantone color card number to check the CMYK value of each color. However, some special colors such as gold, bank and fluorescent colors cannot be composed of four-color ink overprinting, and must be printed with spot color ink of the spot color plate.

When encountering spot color patterns such as corporate LOGO, gold printing, silver printing, or other special effects, spot color plate ink or special process is required to print them.