silkprinting’s function in hard enamel and soft enamel badges

Badges, as a cultural symbol and practical item, have a wide range of application scenarios.

Widely be used in schools, workplaces, business world, and even National government departments and the military, it already becomes an important tool for display and promotion. According to the differences in craftsmanship, they are mainly divided into: hard enamel badges and soft enamel badges.

But today, we will mainly talk about the silkprinting, a process craft used in hard enamel and soft enamel badges.

Silkprinting can make up limitation of color filling and enabling patterns with clearer details, some multi-layered colors and details to be better and retained to the greatest extent, keep the important elements in the designs that can’t be changed to be metal directly or can’t be enamelled colors.

Silkprinting can be done on the surface of hard enamel badges directly, because hard enamel badges’ surface is smooth and flat. Here are two hard enamel sample badges with silkprinting colors.

If soft enamel badges need do silkprinting on the whole surface of the pin or on the surface of some enamel color, normally we need add epoxy for the whole pin, make the badges to be flat, then do printing. For example:

Not abosluty needs add epoxy for soft enamel pins if need do silkprinting, if do dyed metal pins, such as dyed black, dyed white, dyed red,etc, the dyed colour metal to be background, details on the metal need to be printed, then we don’t need add epoxy. Here are some examples: