Glass processing digital printing vs uv printing

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Glass processing-Digital printing VS UV printing
High temperature printed glass,is an artistic glass product produced in tempering furnace whose temperature
over 650°C,under the high temperature,the inks got sintered on glass surface permanently. As a construction
and decoration material, high temperature printed glass has beautiful, shading and other functions, and is
widely used in building decoration, house decoration and other industries.
The traditional high temperature printed glass is to print inorganic glaze on the surface of flat glass through
screen printing process, and then dry (usually not exceed 200 ℃), sintering (600~700℃ tempering
treatement) , the glass ink is permanently sintered to the glass surface, thereby obtaining a glass product with
abrasion resistance, acid and alkali resistance, UV and infrared resistance. The product can design patterns
according to customer needs and obtain decorative materials with artistic effects and special structural
functions. Usually the screen printing pattern is relatively simple.
In recent years, with the maturity of digital printing technology, digital printed glass has been quickly applied in
indoor and outdoor decoration due to its beautiful patterns and bright colors.
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UV printing glass is an earlier generation of full-color digital printing technology that replaces the screen
printing process. It is suitable for all kinds of organic substrates such as signs, PVC, acrylic, plastic, leather,
cloth, wood board, etc., and there are also attempts to carry out UV printing processing on the surface of metal,

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glass, stone and so on. Since there was no printing process specifically for glass earlier, and UV printing can
achieve rich pattern effects in the environment at the time, UV printing glass has also been accepted and
applied by many designers within a certain safety limit.
Digital printing VS UV printing
Both digital printing and UV printing process on glass surface,both has the advantages of rapid realization in
graphic patterns, and the advantages of flexible graphic pattern design. It is designed in many glass
applications that require personalized decoration. But the properties of their materials are completely different.
Comprehensive consideration is required in the design and application of glass to avoid the failure or errors.
Below table shows the difference between digitally printed glass and UV printed glass.

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Based on above table,compared with UV printed glass,digital printed glass has below advantages:
1. Digitally printed glass can be used in outdoor.
The solidification principle of digital printing glass is to integrate the ceramic digital printing ink into the glass
surface after high temperature sintering process. The toner in the ink is mined from various minerals in nature,
so it has the ability to blend naturally with glass (the main component SiO₂). , And the performance that will not
change color after decades.
The inks materials decide the printed glass has perfect weather resistance,acid&alkali
resistance,alcohol&water resistance.,it can be used in outdoor glass projects for decades and same lifetime as
glass itself.
“Dip-Tech" has been developing digital printing since 2005. Digitally printed glass is applied in global projects
in various regional climates for over 10 years, and has demonstrated its excellent weather resistance in interior
and exterior projects.
UV printed glass shortage:
 UV printed glass use organic inks,In the acid and alkali resistance test and the alcohol resistance test, the
UV ink formed wrinkles and fell off.
 In terms of weather resistance, UV printed glass begins to change color in 30 days in a natural
environment, and cracks and curls begin to form after three months; in indoor project applications, the
glass is UV-printed glass can be used for 2-3 years.

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 Because UV ink has poor adhesion on smooth glass surface, it can be easily scratched with nails or sharp
tools.
2. Digitally printed glass can control the color transparency.
The process design of Dip-Tech ceramic digital printing is quite perfect. It can easily achieve various light
transmittance requirements of any area and any graphic by customizing the color transparency and controlling
the printing ink volume in the printing process.
Gradient color effect can be achieved benefiting from this advantage.

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Some high-end UV printing equipment also has the function of adjusting the ink volume, but organic ink still
cannot produce the effect of high opacity, so common color UV single-layer printing is transparent color effect.
3.Digital printed glass can be further made into tempered,laminated glass,and insulated glass.
The solidification principle of ceramic digital printing is to melt through the tempering process of 680-720℃, so
it must be tempered after printing.
The tempering process include tempering,heat strengthen,heat soaked,curved,hot bending ,as well as further
laminating and insulating process to increase the glass safety and energy saving performance.
Tha maximum temperature of UV inks is 120 ℃，glass cannot be tempered and further processing,to increase
the glass safety,UV printing must be applied on already flat tempered glass.

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With the advancement of industrial printing technology, the accuracy of digital printing has gradually increased
from 300dpi to 1200dpi or even higher, and its printing speed has also increased from the initial 10sqm/h hour
to more than 100sqm/h. Digital printing technology realizes complex color matching, vividly presenting artistic
portraits and natural scenery on colorful glass, and its visible light transmittance and reflection effect are also
better.
Morn work with China leading glass processors manufacturing&supplying high quality digitally printed glass
with DIp-tech.If you would like to know the digital printed glass price for your project,or planing to build your
unique colorful glass facade with digital printed glass,kindly contact us and let out DIP-tech glass decorate
your next great building.
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