Cosmetics packaging commonly used printing - screen printing and pad printing

Screen Printing

The principle of screen printing:The use of screen printing plate graphics part of the mesh permeable to ink, non-graphic part of the mesh impermeable to ink for printing.

Screen printing features:

a. Low cost, quick results.

b. Adapt to irregular substrate surface.

c. Strong adhesion and good inking.

d. Thick ink layer, strong three-dimensional sense.

e. Strong light resistance and good color formation.

f. Wide range of printing materials.

g. Smaller printing width restrictions.

Screen printing is generally used as a graphic marking process for packaging products, which has an important impact on the image of the product, so the technical requirements are high.

A. Screen printing of plastic bottles have ordinary ink and UV ink, UV ink effect is better, there is a sense of gloss and three-dimensional, in the production of the first plate to confirm the color, in different materials screen printing effect will be different.

B. Glass bottle screen printing usually have two kinds, one is high temperature ink screen printing, which is characterized by not easy to decolorize, the color is more dull and dull, purple toning is more difficult to produce results, the other is low temperature ink screen printing, the color is more colorful, the requirements of the ink is higher, or easy to fall off, and in the bottle sterilization to pay attention to.

C. Cosmetic tube body can be multi-color printing and screen printing, individual manufacturers have heat transfer equipment and technology.

Glass bottles and plastic bottles screen printing to the edition fee, such as belonging to the new specifications of the packaging bottle and screen printing factory without this corresponding fixture to charge fixture fee, but can do a certain amount of screen printing to offset this cost, such as business volume of 20,000 or more can be exempt from this fee, the situation of each manufacturer has different conditions, batch screen printing before the first sample, confirm the effect of graphic screen printing after production, confirm the production adjustment cycle of 4-5 days, depending on the difficulty of screen printing and quantity and different. Usually screen printing factory has hot stamping, hot silver and other processing techniques, screen printing methods are manual, mechanical screen printing, pad printing and sticker pad printing and other technologies.Some airless bottles, dropper bottles, lotion pump bottles, etc., may require a printing process.

Pad Printing

Pad printing is the use of copper or steel concave plate, through the silicon rubber cast into a hemispherical pad printing head, which will be pressed to the layout of the ink transfer to the substrate, to complete the transfer printing method. Mainly used for irregular surface of the substrate.