Let’s learn about the processes and crafts of manufacturing medals, lapel pins, badges, luggage tags, ball markers, memorial coins. Besides, there are partial of processes and crafts that are regularly adapted to produce marathon medals, school badges, and golf luggage tags. Let’s check by the following articles.
Enamel
Enamel (cloisonné) was first documented in the Yuan Dynasty, and was most refined during the Ming Dynasty, and flourished during the Qing Dynasty. Enamel is the most expensive and time-consuming process, and is suitable for the production of badges, medals and medals for state agencies, military and police, and for long-lasting preservation.
Imitation enamel
Soft enamel and resin are coloring materials developed by foreign experts, the surface can be gold-plated, nickel-plated and other metal colors, smooth and delicate, giving a very noble feeling, suitable for high-end badge customization, high-grade medallion production, commemorative medals and other exquisite products.
Copper baking lacquer
The process of copper baking lacquer is similar to enamel and soft enamel, only the coloring material is different from the use of baking lacquer, the surface of the product has a very obvious sense of concave and convex, strong metallic texture, clear lines, bright colors, suitable for high-grade badges, medals, commemorative coins, key chains, corporate and community commemorative collection badges.
Iron baking paint
Iron baking lacquer is slightly weaker than copper baking lacquer, the metal lines under the concave is shallow, the color is obviously lower than the metal line, there are options of adding Polly (drip glue) and not adding Polly, suitable for low-end, high volume, quality requirements are not high badges, medals, souvenirs, key rings, etc.
Metal without color
Metal without color is not into the color of a process practice, the main performance of a strong sense of three-dimensional, a variety of pattern layering, a variety of electroplating color obvious, concave under the addition of sandblasting or sand + fog paint and other processes, will make the product more obvious concave and convex and bright fog. It is suitable for middle and high end and large volume badges, medals, commemorative coins, key rings and other products that are used more.
Bite version
Bite plate is the use of chemical potion on the raw material corrosion out of concave graphics, into the same color and copper baking paint and the same quality, the product is very thin metal side is wider. Can do biting through or double-sided biting plate design, but need a certain thickness to be able to, suitable for making numbers, work numbers, names, nameplates, need to bend the badge, hangtags, larger size and complex pattern lines of products.
Flat printing
Plain printing is printed with 4 plates, with gradual color, simple practice, low price, short duration, generally the best practice when the pattern is more complex or want to really show the texture of the pattern, design three-dimensional sense of strong plain printing to highlight the three-dimensional effect, suitable for printing photos, complex color badges and large promotional souvenirs, gifts.
Screen printing
Screen printing is out of the film production printing plate printing, the surface is not bump metal lines, no metal lines between the color, the color effect is not gradient color, most of the products have to add Polly (drip), mainly to protect the printing ink does not scratch, so that the product is shinier. Suitable for printing badges, large promotional souvenirs, gifts.
