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What are slide-off decals?
Before the invention of plastic stickers Pressure sensitive (Roughly the 1950s) all the decals where manufactured using water slide decals.
The sticker water slide-off has been made by printing the graphic you wanted to show the product or as a promotional sticker on release paper. water decals were printed out slides using the method of silk screen printing (AKA-screen printing).
Screen printing is a very old type of printing invented in China during the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD). This type is called silk screen printing, since the mesh used to press the ink through was made of silk. The silk screening period has not been used since the 1960s. Now commonly used synthetic yarns in the process of screen printing, the most popular mesh used is made of polyester. Special materials of nylon mesh and stainless steel are available for screen printer.
Screen printing uses a polyester mesh that resembles a screen, hence the term "print screen, the mesh is coated with an emulsion that is photo-reactive. When this emulsion is exposed to light is leaving a trail of the stencil graphics to be printed, each color printing is the screen itself.
Turning to the issue at hand water slide decals are printed role in launching a color at a time, because each color has to dry in the air before the day the color is printed. The substrate that is printed on an ink-resistant paper water that has a layer of water-soluble adhesive. When he finished the decal is immersed in water, the adhesive on the release of water-resistant paper leaving a paper decal image inserted between the adhesive soluble in water and the clear final coat of ink on the surface of printed decals.
The decal water slide-off does not have a substrate that is printed on. Liner The release or water-resistant paper is a temporary carrier for the image of the sticker is. The slide water-off (also known as a water transfer decal) was transferred to a substrate to adhere to the image.
Before the invention plastics adhesive stickers were all water transfer decals for either promotion, brand products, the danger and decals caution.
It is still water slide decals in a few sectors such as furniture decoration, trademark baseball bat. The reason that these industries use this technology age is the water transfer decal is as thin as a coat of paint. When the decal is transferred to a furniture for decorative purposes or a baseball bat to the mark of a varnish is applied to the image. Because the sticker is only the ink image will not leave a hole or an area high where the image is applied.
The water slides off or water transfer decals are also used in the decoration of ceramics, this is called ceramic decals, but that's another article.
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