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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Sbrem on January 02, 2018, 03:26:42 PM

Title: What is this?
Post by: Sbrem on January 02, 2018, 03:26:42 PM
A customer showed me this, and wants to know if I know, and I don't. So, who knows? Fed Ex is not the end user in this case. When he was describing it to me over the phone, it sounded like maybe a high density print. This, looks like a high density print with sauce...

Steve
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: 3Deep on January 02, 2018, 04:04:32 PM
Looks more like molded plastic/silicone heat press
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: cleveprint on January 02, 2018, 04:53:26 PM
looks like 3d silicone heat press to me. quick google search came up with this. That place and also all over alibaba

http://www.finotex.com/3d-heat-transfers/ (http://www.finotex.com/3d-heat-transfers/)

I have no clue what minimums would be though. I would imagine high.
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: Sbrem on January 02, 2018, 05:09:34 PM
Perfect, thanks guys, I'll forward it to my customer (big marketing company). I hope you all have a Happy New Year.

Steve
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: RICK STEFANICK on January 03, 2018, 07:13:36 AM
IT's called RF WELDING. very popular 10- 15 years ago.. The plastic is adhered using something called a Rf welding maching using a die and high frequency radio waves. We did a ton of it Harley Davidson AND Old Navy. I Havn't seen it in years and have no idea who even offers it anymore.
Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: Sbrem on January 03, 2018, 07:46:21 AM
RF Welding! That's the phrase I was trying to remember, I remember seeing it in one of the trades years ago. I forwarded it to my customer, but I suspect I'll be doing the ordering and application for him. Thanks again everybody, and have a great New Year. In fact, my first screenprinting job was printing plastic phone book covers with ads on them, and part of the process was sealing the cover to the pockets with an RF die, Thermotron I think was the name. It had a vacuum tube in it about the size of a head, and cost about a grand in 1973 dollars...

Steve