What equipment is required for thermal transfer process production?
The equipment and materials required for the thermal transfer process are as follows:
1. Printer: any desktop printer;
2. Special ink for thermal transfer: thermal transfer ink is also called thermal sublimation ink. Product features: It belongs to water-based ink with high color saturation and wide color gamut; standard ink dispersion and effective protection of printheads; good compatibility and print reproducibility. Compared with other inks, thermal transfer ink needs to transfer the color to the object at high temperature to show the original color. The color printed on the transfer paper at first is not the final color, and it can only be displayed after a certain period of high temperature. original color;
3. Continuous ink supply system for printers: continuous ink supply system dedicated to thermal transfer printing of "Color Ink Maniac";
4. Heat transfer machine: a flat heat transfer machine, or transfer equipment such as baking pan machine and baking cup machine;
5. Special paper for thermal transfer: The special paper for thermal transfer can evenly and adequately absorb thermal transfer ink, and at high temperature, it can completely release the absorbed thermal transfer ink from the paper and transfer the color to the transfer object. surface. Ordinary printing paper can also complete the transfer, but the transfer rate is low, that is, the color of the transferred article is slightly worse than that of the special thermal transfer paper;
6. Special coating liquid for thermal transfer: In order to adapt thermal transfer ink to more surfaces (mainly non-cloth), it can be used with thermal transfer coating to achieve satisfactory output effect;
7. Printing medium: The fabrics are mainly polyester and polyester-cotton blended fabrics; the hard objects are mainly made of high temperature resistant materials, such as film, metal, glass, ceramics (tiles, porcelain cups), PVC and other materials.