High Temperature Silk Screen Printing VS Low Temperature Silk Screen Printing
Explore the key distinctions between high temperature and low temperature silk screen printing in our latest article. Uncover their unique applications, benefits, and ideal use cases to elevate your printing projects. Gain expert insights to optimize your printing choices for superior quality and durability—perfect for achieving exceptional results. Dive in for valuable tips!
aluminum windows is a technology that prints patterns or text on the tempered glass surface through a silk screen process. Specifically, this technology first prints a layer of ceramic glaze on the surface of the tempered glass surface, and then uses high-temperature heating to make the glaze film firmly adhere to the surface of the glass panel, forming a pattern or text that is bright in color and will never fade or fall off.
With Different printing ink used, tempered glass silk screen printing technology can be divied into high temperature tempered glass silk screen printing and low temperature tempered glass silk screen printing. while that two kind of tempered glass silk screen printing have different characteristics, this article will introduce their key differences, to help you to decide which kind of silk screen printing technology should be used for your tempered glass panel products.
Tempered Glass Sheets Silk Screen Printed:
About Tempered Glass High Temperature Silk Screen Printing
What is Tempered Glass High Temperature Silk Screen Printing:
Tempered glass high-temperature silk screen printing technology refers to the technology of high-temperature silk screen printing on the surface of tempered glass. High-temperature silk screen printing is a common glass printing method and is suitable for printing various glass products, including tempered glass doors, tempered glass tabletops, glass curtain walls, etc. It is characterized by high definition of printed patterns, bright colors, and good durability. Common colors such as white, black, and red are usually used for printing.
Specific Steps and Process of Tempered Glass High-Temperature Silk Screen Printing Technology:
Screen production: Screen production is the key. The tension of the mesh, the stability of the screen frame, and the error of pattern production cannot exceed 0.05mm. The drawing of mesh cloth is also very particular. It is necessary to choose the appropriate mesh number. Sometimes it is necessary to make a 45-degree diagonal drawing plate.
Workshop environment: The workshop environment is very important. It is best to have a 100,000-level dust-free workshop. Workers must wear electrostatic suits, masks and hats. Maintain stable temperature and humidity in the workshop to ensure printing quality
Ink selection: Choose a brand of ink with good quality, fine particles and strong adhesion. High temperature ink needs to be tempered to achieve good adhesion after glass tempering
Printing: Print a layer of ceramic glaze on the surface of the glass, and then heat it at high temperature to make the glaze film firmly adhere to the glass.
Post-processing: The printed glass should be packed in film plastic bags and then isolated with pearl cotton, which can effectively avoid secondary scratches.
Applications of Tempered Glass High Temperature Silk Screen Printing:
Home appliance industry: For example, refrigerator glass panels, induction cooker top panels, microwave oven glass plates, etc. can be printed with high-temperature silk screen printing technology, and then fired in high-temperature furnaces to fuse the glaze with the material to achieve permanent color fixation.
Architecture field: High temperature silk screen printing technology is also used in building curtain walls, exterior walls of high-rise buildings, colorful character patterns on glass curtain walls, etc., which can improve the aesthetics and durability of the building
Home Furnishing Field: Tempered glass high temperature silk screen printing can be used for home decoration glass TV background walls, furniture coffee tables and tea trays, decorative glass, etc., providing personalized customization services
Automotive industry: High temperature silk screen printing is used for printing logos and date copywriting on car windshields and windows to enhance the aesthetics and personalization of the vehicle.
Other fields: Such as amusement park facilities, commercial store signs, lobby partitions, etc., through high-temperature silk screen printing technology to achieve personalized customization of color patterns
High Temperature Silk Screen Printed Tempered Glass Samples:
Advantages of tempered glass high temperature silk screen print:
Strong weather resistance: After being fired at high temperature, the high temperature printing ink is not easy to fall off, and has strong corrosion resistance and abrasion resistance, especially suitable for use in outdoor environments.
Personalized customization: Through silk screen printing technology, various colors and patterns can be customized to meet the needs of different customers.
Good environmental performance: Most of the high temperature inks used are water-based high-temperature tempered glass screen printing inks, which have excellent environmental performance and are affordable.
Disadvantages of Tempered Glass High Temperature Silk Screen Printing:
High technical requirements: Professional equipment and operators for tempered glass high temperature silk screen printing are required to ensure printing effects and product quality
Higher cost: High-temperature firing and complex processing of high temperature silk screen printing increase production costs
About Tempered Glass Low Temperature Silk Screen Printing:
What is Tempered Glass Low Temperature Silk Screen Printing:
Tempered glass low-temperature silk screen printing technology refers to a technology that uses low-temperature ink for silk screen printing on the surface of tempered glass. The specific process includes silk screen printing after the glass is tempered, and baking the ink to solidify after the screen printing. The ink used in this technique requires the addition of a curing agent to ensure a strong bond between the ink and the glass surface.
Specific Steps and Process of Tempered Glass Low-Temperature Silk Screen Printing Technology:
Raw glass sheet processing: First of all, the raw glass sheet needs to be cut, edged, drilled and cleaned. Afterwards, it is usually tempered to increase its strength.
Silk screen printing preparation: Prepare the glaze (the printing ink). The ink is the source of the color of the silk screen glass pattern. Screen production is the key. The tension of the mesh, the stability of the screen frame and the error in pattern production cannot exceed 0.05mm. Apply photosensitive glue to the stencil, combine it with film and strong light exposure to create a pattern
Silk screen printing process: The prepared ink is printed on the glass through the screen, and then placed in the oven to bake, so that the ink dries quickly and the pattern is not easily erased.
Low-temperature screen printing: Use low-temperature ink for screen printing. This ink is generally two-component and needs to be screen-printed after the glass is tempered to ensure that the ink is integrated with the glass surface, and the pattern is retained and not easy to fall off.
Advantages of Tempered Glass Low Temperature Silk Screen Printing:
Lower cost: Using ordinary low-temperature ink for printing, the cost is relatively low
Fast printing speed: Due to the low viscosity of the ink, the printing speed is fast and the production efficiency is high
Flexible color control: Color control of low-temperature ink is relatively easy and has good light transmittance.
Disadvantages of Tempered Glass Low Temperature Silk Screen Printing:
Poor color persistence: The color of the ink used in low-temperature silk screen printing technology may not be durable enough after curing. When exposed to sunlight for extended periods of time, certain substances in the ink may react chemically, causing color to change or fade.
Poor heat resistance: The ink used in tempered glass low-temperature silk screen printing technology is easy to discolor or fall off in high-temperature environments, which limits its application in high-temperature environments.
Key Differences Between Tempered Glass High Temperature Silk Screen Print and Low Temperature Silk Screen Printing:
The main difference between high-temperature silk screen printing and low-temperature silk screen printing lies in the ink working temperature, applications, printing effects and costs, etc.
The working temperature of printing ink:
High-temperature silk screen printing: Use high-temperature resistant ink, which can remain in place at temperatures above 600 degrees.
Low-temperature silk screen printing: Use low-temperature printing ink and finish the printing at a temperature of about 200 degrees
Applications:
High temperature silk screen printing: High temperature silk screen printing is suitable for occasions that require high temperature resistance, acid and alkali resistance, such as wine bottles, kitchen gas stove glass, oven and microwave oven door glass, etc., especially suitable for high temperature disinfection occasions
Low temperature screen printing: low temperature silk screen printing is suitable for general printing needs, lower cost, faster printing speed and high production efficiency
Printing effect and cost
High-temperature silk screen printing: The printing color of high temperature silk screen printing is bright, the pattern details are rich, and it has the characteristics of good high temperature resistance, acid and alkali resistance, and not easy to fall off, but the printing cost of tempered glass high temperature silk screen printing is high and its production efficiency is low.
About Huide Glass:
Huide Glass has been in that processing business of household appliances tempered glass sheets products for around 13 Years since 2011. We have strong production and development capabilities, and currently has 7 automatic cutting machines, 8 edge grinding lines, there are 8 CNC precision grinding processing centers; there are 3 tempering furnaces(one for North-Glass, one for Yihai, and one for continuous tempering furnace SOUTHTECH). we can fabricate tempered glass sheet products 3,000,000 square meter per year.
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