What is the difference between hot stamping and traditional printing?

Hot stamping is to first print the design on thermal transfer paper (commonly known as hot stamping paper). When necessary, cover the T-shirt with heat transfer paper and put it in a heat transfer machine (bronzing machine) for a few seconds, and the pattern will be transferred to the T-shirt. Thermosetting ink printing is to print patterns directly on T-shirts with special thermosetting ink, and then put them into infrared drying equipment for drying. In this process, the ink particles are melted, firmly combined with the T-shirt fibers, and cooled to form.

2, the appearance is different

Because the white matrix on thermal transfer paper must be melted to "stick" the pattern on the T-shirt, the traditional hot stamping patterns often have unnatural stiff white edges; Thermosetting ink printing has no unpleasant hard edges because it is "direct" printing and does not need white substrate.

3. Different handfeel and breathability.

Hot stamping feels like a layer of rubber, because the white matrix with pigment is almost 0.5mm thick and is a continuous sealing layer; Thermosetting ink printing is a kind of fine color particles, which are distributed on T-shirts in a semi-dispersed shape. Flexible Hebei packaging printing screen is soft and breathable, and feels close to water-based paste printing, but its color is brighter and more durable than water-based paste printing.