hot stamping film and lettering film?

With the improvement of people's living standards, people's requirements for life are becoming more and more strict. After all, clothing is in direct contact with the skin, this aspect can not be sloppy. The use of high elastic hot stamping film and thermal transfer lettering film is to hot stamping patterns, so its quality is very important. Then what is the difference between hot stamping film and lettering film?

What is the difference between hot stamping film and lettering film?

1. Different production processes

The lettering film is a coating process without sticking edges, while hot stamping is a printing process with sticking edges.

2. The general specifications of different conventional specifications

lettering film are: 50*25cm; There are two kinds of conventional specifications for hot stamping, namely: 39cm * 54cm and 48cm * 64cm.

3. Different Colors

In general, lettering films are spot colors, except for printable color spray films. If you want the effect of multiple colors, you can only use the method of color registration or overlap. But hot stamping can show the effect of photos, and even some gradient patterns.

4. Different lines

Most of the surface of the lettering film can show the effects of matte surface, frosted surface and bright surface. Bronzing can be customized to create straw mat pattern, leather pattern, baby breath and other effects.

5. Different production time

Most lettering films are in stock and can be delivered on the same day. Hot stamping is a customized product, which needs to go through proofing, printing and other processes. The general production cycle takes 4-7 days.

6. Different operation modes

The lettering film needs a lettering machine to carve out the pattern, and then use a hot stamping machine to carry out hot stamping work; hot stamping is the finished pattern, which only needs to be cut out and then hot stamped with a hot stamping machine.

What is the printing principle of the hot stamping film process?

Thermal transfer is a kind of thermal transfer. There are two types of thermal transfer: thermal transfer and thermal sublimation. Because thermal sublimation is rarely used in the garment customization industry, thermal transfer in general garment customization technology is equivalent to thermal transfer.

The principle of hot stamping technology is to place the pattern in a carrier and transfer it to the fabric with a hot stamping machine at a certain high temperature.

There are two general carriers, one is hot stamping film and the other is film.

hot stamping film: No need to open the plate, the quality of the pattern is determined by the material of the hot stamping film, and the quality requirement is low. Usually transfer printing with transfer paper, color fastness and elastic recovery is poor. The thermal transfer film includes PVC film, TPU film, PU film, etc. It has good color fastness and good tension.

Film: Hot stamping made of film as a carrier is also called offset printing. Offset printing is screen printing on the release film, and its production principle is closer to screen printing. Ke-style hot stamping needs to be higher than the price of hot stamping film, which is suitable for group clothing customization with large amount of customization.

Hot stamping pattern is delicate and toothless. A variety of different hot stamping process, creative process with special materials, to create a personalized effect. There are dozens of other processes, any printing needs can be met.