Glass And Ceramic Printing
To achieve high gloss gold and silver effects the glass industry generally employs ceramic inks.
Glass and ceramic printing. The printed result appears highly opaque with a satin gloss finish. Curved substrates may require special screen printing presses that adapt to their shape. This solution allows the designer to create multi color or photographic images for either monolithic or laminated installations. Glass and ceramic printing ltd is also supplying the retail trade with products such as birthday beer mugs birthday wine glasses birthday shots birthday shooters wedding presents anniversary presents and with a wide range of souvenir and.
The cg series offers strong adhesion improved abrasion resistance and is dishwasher safe once heat cured. These are expensive to purchase and the firing process is energy intensive and therefore costly. Inkcups cg series ink was specially formulated for pad printing glass and ceramic substrates. Hot stamping with uv inks.
Like other printing on glass methods it uses a form of printmaking. There are special considerations when screen printing glass and ceramic substrates since few glass and ceramic substrates are the size and shape of more traditional screen printed products. Digital ceramic printing on glass has allowed for new possibilities and improvements in flat glass decoration and treatment such as high levels of customization translucency and opacity control light diffusion and transmission ability to calculate solar heat gain co efficiency e. Our customers use our digital ceramic printing systems to create pieces such as.
Printing on large glass or ceramic items like panels or large tiles requires a printer built for the job such as a flatbed printer. Normally it is burned by 680 720 c high temperature tempering. Screen printing on glass continues to play a significant role in the production of glass and ceramic products for industrial and consumer applications. Glass decorators utilize screen printing to overcome challenges including printing on objects of unlimited sizes 3d objects and uneven surfaces while delivering thick opaque ink deposits that often contain glass frit precious metals.
Digital ceramic printing on glass is a technological development used for the application of imagery pattern or text to the surface of flat glass. Digital ceramic print on glass is a technology that applies ceramic ink directly onto glass in much the same way that an inkjet printer prints onto paper. Ceramic digital printing glass is to print inorganic ink with a diameter of less than 2μm on the glass surface by digital printing technology. Products created with our ceramic printers will last for generations without worry about peeling or fading.
Glass and ceramic printing ltd provides high quality personalised glass and ceramic products for corporate promotions of major companies for restaurants and wineries weddings school leavers and sport teams both locally and around new zealand.