Screen Printing | Water Transfer Paper/Water Transfer Printing | Heat Transfer Printing | |
Colors | Single Color Printing | Multi color printing finished by one process | Multi color printing finished by one process |
Using Area | Toys/Gifts | Erose plastic,metal,wooden pattern are curly grains,such as car decorations,plastic products and so on. | Flat surface,round surface,metal,wooden,plastic products,such as stationeries,cups,slippers,plastic packing or shells. |
Quantity | Small amount of products Ten to hundred | Small amount of products Ten to hundreds | Suitable for factories manufacture. Thousands of products |
Product Shape | Flat surface/regular round surface | Flat surface/Erose shaped | Flat surface/regular round surface |
Producing procedure | -Film screen printing plate--color printing one by one----air drying | Plate making(Electric curved plate)---printing water transfer film----manul stick film | Making electric curved plate base on the design-----printing heat transfer film------heat printing process |
Advantage | Traditional technology,should used in widely area,single color printing,small quantity printing,cheap price | Can printing on erose shaped products | Widely using area,whatever how much the colors need to printing,it all can finish by one process without topping to match designer's pattern.High produce efficiency,low defective index,simple operation,small floor area,no need for the second deal after printing. |
Disadvantages | Bad adhesive force,single color,several times of topping ,movable,complex operation,wide floor area,high technology requirement. | Bad adhesive force,so the product need be spraying oil to protect its surface,low produce efficiency,high defective index,maybe transformation when printing actual product,the positioning problem is still trouble. | This technology is attach importance to product surface clean,shapes,usually used in flat surface and other regular products.Producing quantity is important to heat transfer printing technology.Because heat transfer printing technology need making copper plate,if the order is a small quantity,the unit price is a little expensive. |