4 Trends of the Decal Paper on Ceramic Coffee Mugs Industry

Xinxiang ceramic mug manufacturer, decal ceramic coffee mugs have beautiful patterns or photos. Do you know how these patterns are made? What is the current state of the decal industry and what are its prospects? Although, these professional knowledge for people who drink coffee with decal coffee mugs, it is not important. But, as a buyer of ceramic coffee mugs, we need to know it. Because, it can let you predict the development of the industry in advance, and facilitate the later purchase of coffee mugs to understand the latest production technology of ceramic coffee mugs.

The production process of flower paper is simple, according to the pattern requirements, colour design and colour separation processing. Then, the designed pattern is converted into AI files required for the production of floral paper, out of the design draft film, and then, according to the PANTONE NUMBER, computer colour mixing and manual colour mixing. After the sample production qualified, it began to batch printing. This mid-term test volume is: the quality of raw materials, detail control and equipment stability of the enterprise.

Trend 1: the plight of small and medium-sized enterprises

Into the year 2024, the saturation of the floral paper market is the main reason for the decline of small and medium-sized enterprises. In the period, rising raw materials, high labour costs is to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of small and medium-sized flower paper enterprises or the direct cause of the demise.

Ceramic flower paper industry, the technical threshold is not high, into the industry is relatively easy, in 2013 began to appear around a large number of flower paper production enterprises. These enterprises are mainly concentrated in several production bases of ceramic mugs: Shandong Zibo, Hubei Liling, Fujian Dehua, Chaozhou and so on. When these flower paper enterprises to enter, only to find that the market saturation is very high, product homogeneity is serious, the customer base is not stable enough. This makes the enterprise less risk-resistant. When the price of raw materials and personnel costs have risen sharply, the enterprise's profits fell sharply. In the face of many difficulties, floral paper enterprises passively seek solutions to reduce operating costs while seizing customers. The best way, of course, is a technological breakthrough for high-end customers and high-margin orders. Then, this requires the ability to develop new products, it requires a large investment in capital, but also professional talents. This depends on the vision, vigour and strength of the business owner. The advantage of small business is flexible, so take the road of transformation is not a good idea. Fierce competition means resource reorganisation and market pattern reshuffle. After accumulating a certain amount of capital and experience, whether to continue to insist on going is a small and medium-sized ceramic flower paper enterprises are facing new choices and tests.

Trend 2: diversification and specialisation

Today's flower paper industry diversification has become a mainstream trend, including: application scenarios, product market diversification, product channel diversification. Most of the flower paper enterprises in the north, flower paper applications have begun to expand to: glass, gifts and other industries. Due to the impact of raw material prices and other factors, the decline in profits, floral paper enterprises pay more attention to expanding product sales channels, such as: many years a sizeable floral paper enterprises, before, mainly relying on Shandong ceramic mug export business. At present, they not only supply foreign trade orders, but also began to seize the domestic market share. Relative to diversification is specialisation, can also be said to specialise. Insist on doing high-end products ceramic flower paper enterprises in the professional performance is very prominent, these enterprises are not extremely important to the application of technology in production, in the process of development, has been to enhance the value of the product line. Diversification and specialisation of the two directions of development, each with its own advantages. Diversification helps enterprises reduce risks, avoid corporate shortcomings, enhance sales channels and expand customer groups. Specialisation, can help enterprises establish strong core competitiveness. Specialisation, helps enterprises to focus their advantages in one aspect and occupy a high position in the market. At the same time, however, specialisation also makes enterprises lose some development opportunities and form a single field of dependence.

Trend 3: competitive development

Ceramic flower paper as a material for ceramic production, the industry chain is very short, is bound to be significantly affected by the ceramic industry. Ceramic flower paper factory layout is a good illustration of this point, whether it is the South's long-established ceramic main production areas, export areas, or the North's porcelain capital, the ceramic base around a large number of flower paper manufacturers have accumulated. Some of these manufacturers focus on with ceramic mug manufacturers to do exports, the product focus on high-end, relatively profitable. Europe and the United States high-end ceramic market decline and shift to the domestic market operators in this part of the market to see the prospects of the market. At the same time the unstable foreign trade environment, harsh export testing also makes them wary. Before 2018, China's floral paper mills south of the Yangtze River have an advantage over those in the north, have an advantage. It is mainly reflected in: good technology, new equipment, and small starting quantity. However, in the last few years, the floral paper mills in Shandong, updated their equipment, trained high-end technicians, and the starting order quantity also did the same as the south. Competition between the north and south, so that the development of the flower paper industry with vitality.

Trend 4: energy saving, environmental protection to lead the development of the industry

Energy saving, environmental protection is the general trend of the entire industry, especially ceramics as a traditional industry, is a high energy consumption industry. Domestic ceramic production factories of scale, are upgraded equipment. To meet the national standards for energy saving and environmental protection. Flower paper production enterprises, also carried out the corresponding upgrading. With the standard of living is getting higher and higher, people pay more attention to the quality of life, but also more concerned about the health indicators of the products used. Ceramic products and people's lives are closely linked, especially for daily life of ceramic coffee mugs and ceramic tableware. In the technology is progressing, ceramic flower paper enterprises are also in the firing, high temperature and other aspects of the integration of more technological enhancements, so that the pigments directly penetrate into the ceramics, not only to achieve the effect of aesthetics, but also to improve the safety, environmental protection and health standards.

What kind of ceramic coffee mugs are not dishwasher and microwave safe?

Xinxiang ceramic mug manufacturer Co.,Ltd, in "Is it safe to microwave ceramic mugs and plates?", we introduced that some ceramic coffee mugs are not suitable for microwave oven, in which one of the factors is: ceramic stained paper. Ceramic stained paper is categorized according to the baking temperature: high-temperature paper and low-temperature paper. Low temperature ceramic stained paper can not be used in microwave oven because of low operating temperature. So, can ceramic stained paper coffee mugs still be used in the dishwasher? No, it can't. Why can't ceramic stained paper coffee mugs be used in either microwave or dishwasher? Then, we will introduce the characteristics and features of ceramic stained paper in detail.

1. What is ceramic stained paper?

The ceramic stained paper we see every day is mostly small film floral paper, also known as water transfer decal paper. It is first printed on a special paper pre-coated with water-soluble adhesive, and then moistened by water immersion, transferred to the surface of the object attached to a decorative process. Small film ceramic stained paper is composed of the bottom layer of base paper (also called paper base), the middle layer of soluble adhesive, and the surface of the cover oil.

2. The characteristics of ceramic stained paper

Water transfer decal paper base paper to have good water absorption, but also brings a contradiction, that is, the printing process, if the base paper absorbs too much water, it will become heavy and soft, the paper is not good to organize and operate, and the paper is bound to swell, resulting in the printing process of inaccurate color registration, this inaccurate characteristics of the expansion of the irregularity, it is a difficult to solve the problem. If encountered in dry weather, the paper will shrink, become smaller, will also cause inaccurate color registration. When this happens, the paper may appear four corners of the phenomenon of warping, not good finishing, but also not easy to print. So the choice of base paper, to emphasize its stability. Secondly, the environment of the printing shop to maintain constant temperature and humidity, temperature control at 22 ℃, humidity of about 55%. Another focus of the paper is the performance of hydrosol surfacing, requires smooth, not easy to harden, shrinkage, cracking. Identify the quality of the paper, whether it is suitable for your production, to use the simulation of production test. Ceramic stained paper appears to be four corners or a side of the phenomenon of warping, most because of the hydrosol surface hardening, shrinkage caused by. Water-motion ceramic stained paper is also suitable for a variety of special processes: for example, it can be printed with precious metal preparations as well as patterns with relief effects. It is also possible to print ceramic stained papers according to different firing temperatures: over-glaze, under-glaze and under-glaze. The thickness of the printed color layer can also be thickened or thinned at will.

3. The difference between high-temperature ceramic stained paper and low-temperature ceramic stained paper

1) . Firing temperature: high temperature ceramic stained paper firing temperature, generally controlled at 600 ℃ -1000 ℃. According to the ceramic stained paper in the glaze position, set a different firing temperature. This firing temperature is much higher than the low temperature ceramic stained paper. Therefore, ceramic stained paper ceramic coffee mugs are not afraid of high temperatures. The firing temperature of low temperature ceramic stained paper is around 150℃. Therefore, it can be seen that the ceramic stained paper of the low-temperature flower paper of the ceramic coffee mug is not adapted to the high temperature. If it is put into the microwave oven and heated at a high temperature, the color of its pattern will fade or even disappear. The evaporation of the ink of the ceramic stained paper is not good for the health of our body.

2) . Color vividness: the color vividness of high temperature ceramic stained paper is slightly worse than low temperature ceramic stained paper. There are some special colors, such as purple, gradient colors, patterns with metallic colors. In order to ensure the quality of the picture, it is better to use low-temperature ceramic stained paper.

3) . Abrasion resistance: high temperature floral paper because of the high firing temperature, the glaze will completely vitrify the ceramic stained paper during the firing process, generating a protective film on the outer wall of the ceramic coffee mug. Therefore, high temperature ceramic stained paper coffee mugs are dishwasher safe. Low temperature ceramic stained paper is not dishwasher safe because of the process. If a coffee mug with low-temperature ceramic stained paper is washed in a dishwasher, its image will most likely be scratched and the mug will be prone to scratches.

4) . Stability: high-temperature floral paper although the color is not as bright as low-temperature floral paper, but its color has a strong stability, 5 years or even longer, high-temperature floral paper of the color of the coffee mug is still as new. Low-temperature ceramic stained paper because of process problems, try to maintain the clarity of the original color, but the duration will not be too long. Its color will gradually dim with time.

It can be seen that high temperature ceramic stained paper and low temperature ceramic stained paper have their own advantages and disadvantages. Then, when we customize ceramic stained paper coffee mugs, we can choose high temperature paper or low temperature paper depending on whether we need microwave and dishwasher. Although there is a difference between the two, their production process is the same. Here is the introduction

4. Ceramic stained paper production process

1) . Color separation: according to the pattern demand, color design and color separation processing, to ensure the accuracy of the pattern color and sense of hierarchy.

2) . Plate making: Convert the designed pattern into AI file required for making ceramic stained paper, and make the design draft film for logo and flower surface pattern.

3) . Color mixing: According to the PANTONE NUMBER of the design, various base colors of ceramic pigment will be synthesized into the required color according to a certain ratio, and this process includes automatic color mixing and manual color mixing.

4) . Making samples: make the first batch of sample ceramic stained paper on semi-automatic ceramic stained paper machine, test the color condition of the samples by baking on the mugs, and adjust it if there is any deviation until it reaches the required color of the customers.

5) . Mass production: After the samples are confirmed, mass production is carried out by fully automated machinery.

5. Status of ceramic stained paper production

Ceramic stained paper, as a material for ceramic production, has a very short industrial chain and is bound to be significantly affected by the ceramic industry. The layout of ceramic stained paper factory is a good illustration of this point, whether it is China's ceramic mug base, or ceramic mug production bases in other countries, they are accumulated around a large number of ceramic stained paper production factories. Ceramic stained paper, is an important part of the ceramic mug group layer. Just like a beautiful girl can not be separated from the beautiful clothes. Whether the ceramic cup is used for domestic sales, or as a coffee mug export. Ceramic stained paper is an indispensable part. China relies on a long history of ceramic production and technology is constantly updated, especially in terms of safety and environmental protection, ceramic stained paper production process has made great progress. Xinxiang Ceramic Mugs Manufacturer, while satisfying customers with customized ceramic mugs, uses safe and environmentally friendly ceramic stained paper to provide you with high quality ceramic coffee mugs.