Ideal for: earthenware and bone china; more complex art tones; critical registration and full colour work; printing on the full surface area of the item; highly-shaped items
The design is silk-screen or litho printed onto special paper, then cover-coated. The resulting print is then treated as a water slide transfer and applied by hand to the ware. The process is slower and more labour intensive than direct screen printing but is more flexible with colours able to be built up with precision and control. Printing is possible on the full size of a mug, inside on the base, as a back stamp, or just inside the rim.
Transfer or litho printing, as opposed to direct silk-screen, is used when:
• larger than average print is needed
• working with bone china
• printing in four-colour process
• cases where more than four line colours, very fine detail or tight registration is required.
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