The essential difference between thermal transfer and digital printing

What is thermal transfer? Why use heat transfer technology? Thermal transfer printing is a new method of printing patterns on goods of various materials. It is particularly suitable for producing a small number of personalized and customized goods with a wide range of materials, as well as for printing patterns containing full-color images or photographs. The principle is to transfer digital patterns onto special paper with special ink through a printer, and then transfer the patterns to the surface of goods under high temperature and high pressure through a special printer to complete the printing of goods.

Thermal transfer printing is a new printing technology, introduced from abroad only more than 10 years. The printing method is divided into transfer film printing and transfer processing. Transfer film printing adopts dot printing to pre-print the patterns on the surface of the film. The printed patterns are rich in layers, bright in color, kale-changing, small in color difference and good in reproducibility, which can meet the requirements of the designer and is suitable for mass production. Transfer printing processing through a heat transfer machine processing (heating pressure) transfer film on the fine pattern transfer printing on the surface of the product, after forming the ink layer and product surface dissolved into one, lifelike beautiful, greatly improve the grade of products. However, due to the high technical content of this process, many materials need to be imported.

And than the heat transfer technology is slightly better than the digital printing.

Digital fast printing is a system engineering, involving CAD technology, network communication technology, precision machining technology and fine chemical technology and other cutting-edge technology, is the fusion of information technology and machinery, textile and chemical technology and other traditional products.

Traditional printing can not be separated from the net regardless of the use of flat screen and round screen. However, the cost and time consumed by plate making can not meet the modern printing trend of small batch and many varieties in any case, so the plate-free and press-free digital printing has been developed. The basic principle is the same as the inkjet printer.

Because digital jet printing technology involves a lot of calculation and control, it can be said that without today's high-speed computers there would be no digital jet printing technology. At present, the development of digital jet printing technology is basically synchronized with the working ability of computers, and the development of computer technology has not weakened any signs, with the development of computer technology can be predicted that the future of digital printing technology will also have a high-speed development. At the same time, the manufacturing technology of the nozzle also benefits from the related technology of integrated circuit, such as etching, precision assembly, etc. This is evidenced by the continuous emergence of modern high-frequency, multi-nozzle sprinklers.