Nowadays, Most of the underwear, hats, jeans,shirts,skirts and dresses manufacturers take up the heat transfer label on their garments. We called they are professional manufacturers.

So why are they so popular in garment industry? Not only does heat transfer label label create a stylish design that is less intrusive than a fabric equivalent, but there are also savings in both cost and time to be made.

Heat transfer labels made process takes place in two parts. In the first stage, the design and text is printed on the transfer film or paper by silkscreen printing, the classic and conventional printing method on heat transfer label.

In the second stage, Through the heat press machine transfer to garments.

Roll to Roll Silkscreen Printing

Silkscreen printing uses a screen plate to transfer printing ink onto a substrate, one colour at a time. The areas that do not require printing are blocked out by stencil. The ink is applied through a squeegee which moves across the screen frame to fill the open areas of the mesh with ink.

There are two types of silk screen printing methods, sheet-fed silk screen printing and roll to roll silkscreen printing .

The downside of the sheet-fed silkscreen heat transfer label printing is that it can only print one colour at a time , requiring drying before the next colour can be applied. The printing speed is slow and most of are the semi-automatic configuration.This makes it perfect for one or two colour designs and little quantity production.

The advantage of the roll to roll silk screen printing is very suitable for multicolor images, mass production, and heat transfer label, electronic appliances, membrane switches, panel, soft circuit board, RFID label, IMD label, PCB label printing as well, called roll to roll silkscreen printing system, and it consist of a feeding unit, a screen printing unit and a hot air dryer. Click the website http://www.xmlingtie.com/automatic-roll-to-roll-screen-printing-machine_p31.html for more information.