Wood thermal transfer

Wood thermal transfer

1 Wood thermal transfer
Wood thermal transfer and the other two substrates, metal thermal transfer, and glass thermal transfer are new areas of breakthrough in the traditional thermal transfer industry in recent years.

Wood thermal transfer inherits many fine traditions of ordinary thermal transfer printing, such as realistic patterns, rich layers, bright colors, accurate color registration, small color difference, high gloss, and good reproducibility.

After post-processing of thermal transfer, the pattern on the wood thermal transfer film can be integrated with the substrate.

Wood thermal transfer technology is widely used in wood products for interior decoration and decoration such as wood-plastic doors, wooden doors, floors, and furniture.

Example: Wood thermal transfer effect diagram

Wood thermal transfer effect diagram

2 Wood thermal transfer process
The thermal transfer process is to print the wood thermal transfer film and process the wood thermal transfer according to the substrate material.

Wood thermal transfer generally requires the following two stages.

1. Wood thermal transfer film printing

1) First, apply a blank base film according to the thermal transfer film process (release agent application process);

2) Print the flower film pattern (printing process);

3) Apply the corresponding glue to the printed thermal transfer film (glue application process);

After re-inspection, striping, and finally packaging, the production of wood thermal transfer film is completed.

According to the characteristics of wood products, there are some differences between wood thermal transfer and thermal transfer of other materials.

2. Wood thermal transfer pattern

In addition to various wood grains, the thermal transfer film patterns of wood thermal transfer are more bright and colorful natural patterns or cartoon-like decorative patterns. Most of the patterns require saturated colors and realistic images.

3. Wood thermal transfer artwork

The artwork design of wood thermal transfer, among which the design of wood grain artwork is mainly based on seamless connection processing, the pattern is continuous from beginning to end, and the surface grain is smooth and natural; there are more patterns that set the size of the pattern according to the area of the substrate. Considering the characteristics of wood, the artwork is designed with a large "bleed".

4. Wood thermal transfer ink

Wood thermal transfer film is full-plate printing, the ink layer is relatively thick, and the ink consumption is greater.

5. Wood thermal transfer pre-printing treatment

According to the characteristics of thermal transfer technology, the wood surface must be "sprayed" first to make its surface smooth before thermal transfer processing of wooden products can be performed.