Metal thermal transfer

Metal thermal transfer

1. Application of metal thermal transfer

The application of metal thermal transfer is increasing day by day, among which aluminum plate thermal transfer, iron plate thermal transfer and other metal plate thermal transfer are the most common.

Specific metal products such as key chains, tea cans, pen holders, metal pipes, fishing rods, sports equipment and other metal thermal transfer applications are also growing.

Metal thermal transfer effect pictures

2. Metal thermal transfer and metal screen printing

Currently on the market, metal products' appearance decoration, metal thermal transfer and metal screen printing occupy a large market share.

Below, let's take a look at the difference between the two.

1. Differences in printing methods:
Metal thermal transfer, through the thermal transfer machine (heating, pressurization) will be transferred to the metal surface at one time, so that the thermal transfer ink and the aluminum plate surface are integrated.

Metal screen printing is a method of printing through a perforated plate, through a certain pressure to transfer the ink through the holes of the perforated plate to the metal, forming an image or text.

2. Different transfer patterns
Metal thermal transfer can print colorful patterns or gradient patterns; it can almost meet the appearance decoration needs of any color and any pattern.

Metal screen printing can only print patterns with fewer colors; and screen printing can hardly print patterns with gradient colors.

3. Differences in printing speed
If we talk about the transfer speed of a single piece. The metal thermal transfer speed is faster when there are more layouts and rich colors. The metal thermal transfer process is a one-time molding. Metal screen printing requires color registration and screening for color printing.

Even if there are fewer layouts and a single color, the speed of metal thermal transfer is still much ahead of metal screen printing.

3. The prospects of metal thermal transfer

With the continuous improvement of people's living standards and aesthetic views, the single pattern of metal screen printing has gradually failed to meet people's requirements for the surface decoration of metal products.

From the perspective of development prospects, with the continuous improvement of thermal transfer technology, metal thermal transfer will have a wider market space.