| Method | Description | Features and Applications |
| Bronzing | Mainly used for silver or gold signs, it is a special printing process without ink. It uses a stencil installed on hot stamping machines, applying specific pressure and temperature to press the printed matter and the hot stamping foil together in a short time, enabling the transfer of graphics. | This printing method is widely used in almost all plastic processing industry due to its characteristics of being anti-scratch, wear-resistant, peel-resistant, and decorative. |
| Pad printing | Pad printing is an indirect concave printing technology that has become the primary method for printing and decorating the surface of various objects. With pad printing, a soft (rubber-like) silicone tip is pressed on the ink-coated print block and then on the products’ surface. | Suitable for small area printing on irregular substrates (such as instruments, electrical parts, toys, etc.) |
| Silk-screen printing | The basic principle of silk-screen printing is: Partial mesh of the screen printing plate can penetrate the ink and leak to the substrate; the rest of the mesh on the printing plate is blocked and cannot penetrate the ink, forming a blank on the substrate. | This method can be used for flat and cylindrical surfaces with large area printing. |
| Water transfer printing | Water transfer printing is a kind of printing in which the transfer paper or plastic film with color patterns is hydrolyzed by water pressure. Due to the excellent tension of the water coating film, it is easy to wrap around the product surface to form a graphic layer, and the product surface gets an entirely different appearance, just like spray paint. | It can form a seamless layer of simulated natural or desired texture colors on the products with concave and convex complex appearances. Because the product surface does not need to be in contact with the printing film, it can avoid damage to the product surface and its integrity. |
| UV transfer printing | It uses the non-stick properties of the UV transfer glue and metal to transfer the ultra-thin button effects of various mobile phones to PET, PMMA, or PC sheets through the UV transfer process, to make a wide variety of effects, including wire drawing pattern, sandblasting patterns, leather pattern, 3D surface, matte surface, highlight surface effect, etc. | With the advantages of being ultra-thin, high hardness, high wear resistance, high solvent resistance, and beautiful appearance, etc., it is used in the 3C industry, various remote control button, appliance control panel components, ceiling decorative pieces, and so on. |
| IML(ln Mold Labelling) | The surface of the IML is a hardened transparent film with a printed pattern layer in the middle and a plastic layer on the back. Because the ink is sandwiched in the middle, it can prevent the products’ surface from being scratched and is anti-friction, and also can keep the color bright for a long time, and it is not easy to fade. | The film can express multiple colors. The pattern and color can be changed at any time during production. It has excellent scratch resistance. It's flexible and suitable for multi-variety and small-scale production. IML is developing in various innovative directions, such as antibacterial, automatic repair of surface scratches, real cloth in-mold injection, pearl effect, 3D texture, etc. |
| Spray paint | The paint layer structure generally consists of a primer, pigmented layer, and protective topcoat, where the pigment paint layer is thinner than the topcoat. Influencing factors such as paint viscosity, compressed air pressure, spray quantity, and spray speed is crucial to the surface quality of the workpiece. | |
