Is thermal transfer better or silk screen printing better?

In fact, the ultimate goal of silk screen printing and thermal transfer printing is the same, and they are both means to produce patterns on your products. The key is what effect you want.

Screen printing generally has two ways to print clothes:

First, printing water paste, the pattern made of this material has no feel, and it will not fade when you close your eyes and touch it. For example, quilt cover is widely used in this practice.

The second is printing mucilage. The pattern made of this material has obvious hand feel and strong color sense, but it will fade after a long time. Of course, good mucilage can last for a long time.

The equipment used in the above two methods is the same, but the size used is different. In addition, the more colors of screen printing patterns, the higher the difficulty and the higher the cost.

Thermal transfer is a process based on screen printing. At present, it is only used for printing clothes with color patterns, and the effect is basically non-tactile. The equipment used is simple, and the durability time is similar to that of mucilage.

Compared with thermal transfer printing, screen printing and thermal transfer printing have their own advantages, but they are not complementary. We can judge the choice from the aspects of cost, technology and effect.