Here’s what industry insiders say about wood grain film and wood grain paper comparison

Here’s what industry insiders say about wood grain film and wood grain paper comparison

Here’s what industry insiders say about wood grain film and wood grain paper comparison

Wood grain film and wood grain paper comparison

Wood grain paper and wood grain film are production materials for the wood grain effect sublimation process.

Right now, the Overseas customers of European countries, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia have fully used wood grain film in replacement of wood grain paper, and equipped with integrated automatic production equipment, the production capacity can be 8-12 tons for each machine per shift.

In the local market, some local wood grain effect sublimation subcontractors have applied wood grain film instead of wood grain paper for production.

Now let us check what industry insiders say about wood grain film and wood grain paper comparison.

1. Process advantage

In the past, in the process of wood grain transfer processing, wood grain paper linting and difficult removing problems cause the rework for the wood grain effect sublimation workshop or factories.

There are many reasons for this phenomenon, including non-standard powder curing time, problems with powder formulations, problems with the base paper, problems with ink, and so on.

The use of wood grain film for the wood grain sublimation process will not be bothered by the above problems.

With the development of window and all-in-aluminum furniture in recent years, the requirements for wood grain sublimation technology have reached a new level.

Because most of the theses materials are a variety of materials with irregular surface, it is not easy for the wood grain paper to be sublimated into some irregular surface in the process, and the wood grain sublimation missing often happen and the material is scrapped.

The wood grain film has strong toughness and good flexibility, and the irregular surface can be transferred into place at one time, which greatly reduces the NG rate.

2. Surface effect advantage

The surface of the substrate decorated with the wood grain film is soft and bright, the texture layer is rich and delicate and the effect is more realistic;

On the other hand, because the material characteristics of wood grain film are superior to the wood grain paper in smoothness and sealing, so it greatly improves the leveling effect after sublimation, reduces the “orange peel” defects, and improves the quality of wood grain effects products.

3. Physical advantage

During the sublimation process, the ink transfer rate of the wood grain film is as high as 95%.

There is almost no ink residue on wood grain film after the heating transfer process.

The depth of penetration into the powder is 30% higher than that of the wood grain paper.

The wood grain paper may still have 20% residue, which means that the fade resistance of the wood grain film is much better than that of the wood grain paper.

4. Operation cost advantage

Wood grain paper, high-temperature resistance covering plastic bags, high-temperature resistance stickers and other materials are needed when processing with wood grain paper, and the production process includes wood grain paper slitting, paper wrapping, glues, stickers, high-temperature resistance bags and sublimation operation process.

The wood grain film only needs to order the specifications and quantity from the suppliers or slitting in its own factory, then cover aluminum profiles and weld by automatic bagging and welding machine, then sublimation process, which greatly reduces the production process and improves the production efficiency.

Compare with wood grain paper application, fewer workers will be needed in the operation with the wood grain film, which can save at least 3 labor in the production.

Brightstar Aluminum Machinery provides wood grain effect sublimation machine for our customers, not only the machine, but also the solution.  Wood grain film slitter, aluminum profile automatic bagging and welding machine can be offered with it.

Contact us now to obtain a reliable no-obligation quote on a wood grain effect sublimation machine.