When you are prepared to customize your unique medals, you must be confused about different crafts and how to choose them. What Should You Focus on in Ordering Custom Medals? Read on, and you will be clear about it.
What should You Focus on When Ordering Custom Medals?
Pay Attention: When Ordering Custom Medals?
Basing on GS-JJ, There are some points that you need to know.
1.Choosing one, Plating or Dyeing
● Plating
Plating is the process of plating a thin layer of other metals or alloys on the surface of some metals by electrolysis. Plating has some options. In general, it can be classified into two parts. One is shiny color like gold, nickel, brass, copper, and black nickel. Another is antique color like anti-gold, anti-silver, anti-copper. These colors look like metal itself.
● Dyeing
Dyeing is the act of dyeing a substance by chemically or otherwise affecting the substance itself. You can choose any color that you want to dye, like black, red, and so on. Usually, soft enamel and hard enamel will use dyeing.
2.Distinguishing Soft Enamel or Hard Enamel
● Different Materials
Brass is used as a raw material for hard enamel, while copper, iron, and aluminum can be used as raw materials for soft enamel. The coloring materials used are also different. Hard enamel is a kind of color paste, while soft enamel is a kind of color paint. The concentration ratio between the two is different.
● Different Process
Hard enamel is first plated, colored, and polished, and then plated again. The process of soft enamel is plating, polishing, and coloring, which determines its differences. The two kinds of enamels are baked at different temperatures.
● Different Texture
The surface of hard enamel is smooth, and the surface of soft enamel is concave and convex. The pattern or text and color of the hard enamel badge are basically on the same plane, with the finger feeling there will be a little bump, but this is different from the feeling of the soft enamel. It is important to note here that the soft enamel will also be smooth when added with epoxy. Discrimination skills: epoxy added can have the light refraction and the feeling of reflecting light.
● Different Price
Generally speaking, hard enamel is more expensive than soft enamel because of its different process. Hard enamel is usually more delicate than soft enamel. The price of soft enamel varies according to the material used. For example, the price of the iron soft enamel is very affordable and is chosen by many people.
Notes: Hard enamel usually doesn't dyeing black but can plat black nickel. When metal layered, it can't use hard enamel or sandblast.
3.Selecting Texture
There are three main textures used. Iron die struck is matched with soft enamel; Brass die struck is with hard enamel. Zinc die casting is a metal casting process that is characterized by forcing molten metal under high pressure into a mold cavity. Zinc die casting is expensive, but when the shape is complex or cut out, or the size is big, it is only used for Zinc die casting.
4.Distinguishing Prints
The four prints, as follows, are widely used in custom lapel pins, and the last one is used in custom medals. Both of them should be paid additionally.
● Silkscreen Print
Silkscreen print is to use the screen as the substrate, and through the photosensitive plate making method, makes a silkscreen print with pictures and text.
If your texts of products are small or the design is complex, the manufacturer cannot make it by using a model. GS-JJ usually uses silkscreen print to show its effects. It needs to be emphasized that the text and pattern of the silkscreen are self-colored. For example, red texts and a blue logo. But there isn't a gradient pattern. In addition, because offset print can be used in the plane, silkscreen print will be combined with hard enamel to finish the needed design and achieve the desired effect in general.
● Offset Print
If your product needs to dyeing many colors, you can choose offset print. Offset print just makes the whole product use offset print. Nevertheless, you can't combine with other crafts. At GS-JJ, there are extra fees needed to be paid.
● Transfer Print
The condition of the transfer print is almost the same as the silkscreen. Transfer print is usually used in products with a gradient ramp. In addition, when your products have more complex colors, you can also use them. The kind of print used is less in custom medals, but is widely used in custom lapel pins.
● Epoxy Sticker
When your products can not adopt coloring and printing, GS-JJ will suggest that you use an epoxy sticker. In this way, your products can better present your complex LOGO details and color. Of course, if it is a part of complex designs, we can also use epoxy stickers and stick them again, making epoxy stickers in combination with any other process. Epoxy stickers are an excellent, inexpensive choice to resin and glass domes when wanting to create a clear domed effect over an image. Epoxy stickers are used in customizing medals.
Therefore, you must pay more attention to it. If you have any questions about customizing custom medals, you can email us at Info@gs-jj.com or contact our custom service. Knowing more Information?